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Who are Macacha?

With a collective nutritional experience of over thirty years the guys from Macacha are doing everything they can to make nutrition easy.

There are a lot of answers out there, people telling you to eat this, to not do that. It becomes difficult, and increasingly expensive, to know what is actually beneficial for you.

Macacha provide a simple solution:

“Forget taking all your different supplements and potions (and spending time researching what’s best). No need for endless juicing (and the washing up). Just add MACACHA. Complex, meet simple.”

Six signature superfoods form the basis of each of their recipes. Making their nutritional blends no-nonsense goodness.

Macacha at UShoot

Shooting their products held a couple of difficulties.

Their protein blends come in tubular packages, with a gloss finish. What this means is that under normal lighting you get intrusive reflections which cover the packaging design, as well as distorting colours.

Also, they wanted multiple angles, and perfectly consistent imagery to complement their beautiful new website.

The latter problem is easily resolved by using the StyleShoot Machines.

With a stationary camera and fixed lighting you just have to line up the product. And with an real life display on the iPad with an overlay function makes lining it up exactly the same each time easy.

The overlay function can be either in grid format or even better you can overlay a previous product shot.

The former problem was a little trickier to overcome. However, we know a few tricks by now. With some clever use of diffusers to lessen the glare of the reflection, and by controlling the camera exposure and the machine lights, we were able to get the shots perfect almost surprisingly quickly.

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Macacha have a healthy product shoot at UShoot Who are Macacha? With a collective nutritional experience of over thirty years the guys from Macacha…

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Snow Finel

It’s that time of year again when the winter clothes come in all their glory.

Last week we had a chance to gasp, ooh and aah at Snow Finel’s newest collection.

Snow Finel are one of our oldest clients who have been with us almost from day one. We love their cothes, well made, but mostly we love the splashes of colour that draw the eye. Neon elbow patches or bright trims break up the functional suave simple colours.

Who are Snow Finel?

Snow Finel make ski wear that looks and performs fantastic. Using fine merino wool, luxurious and soft and yet warm, light and breathable their clothes can be worn on or off the slope.

Fun, functional bright clothing that delivers the performance you need on the slopes, and the style you want off.

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With a range of stunning well-made products it is always a pleasure to have them in.

Check out their website here

Snow Finel Snow Finel It’s that time of year again when the winter clothes come in all their glory.

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Our Stylist Hannah has Hidden Depths

Our Stylist Hannah has Hidden Depths

Our Stylist Hannah has Hidden Depths Hannah is our stylist, what she cant do with a pair of pants just isn’t worth knowing. Efficient and with the attention to detail that frankly is inhuman there is no one in the world we would rather entrust any and all product to. Hannah has more than just style though… A self-professed creative, Hannah is an artist. Though being a conventional artist seems to…

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Love Brand – A ModelShoot

Love Brand have been using UShoot for a while now and we are always excited to have them come in. We love their brand, we love their philosophy and we love their clothes.

Oliver wanted something different from this shoot though. He wanted to use our modelshoot service which we have recently developed.

We were more than happy to oblige him.

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Our modelshoots are run by Amir, and in his capable hands they are a streamlined process.

  Love Brand Philosophy

Love Brand & Co was founded by Oliver and Rose.

It was Oliver’s entrepreneurial spirit and design background and Rose’s heritage and knowledge of the Tropics, that led them to start a new swimwear label. Their Ethos was primarily to help save elephants from extinction in the wild. A concept they coined ‘Trunks for Trunks’. This was them expanded to include a variety of other charities that help endangered species.

The actual clothing encompasses with effortless ease the colours and spirit of summer.

  Love Brand use our Model Shoot Service Love Brand - A ModelShoot Love Brand have been using UShoot for a while now and we are always excited to have them come in.

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Model Shoot

The big fashion market place is moving inexorably towards leading with model shots supported by product imagery. However, this is hard for smaller companies to compete with.

So with our full package, combining model shots with our Styleshoot machines we have a photography studio that can produce high quality model shots as well as simple product shots all in the same place, making the process of getting your photography much more efficient.

Who has used our Model Shoot service in the past?

We’ve been running Modelshoot from its inception around a 9 months ago and have numerous clients come in and try it out. For example, Bonsoir of London, and ID Peters more recently.

Bonsoir of London were established in 1926, an era that celebrated the cocktail pyjama, where fashionable hosts entertained guests in their luxury loungewear, and they’ve been going strong ever since.

ID Peters is heavily inspired by the vast and vibrant fabrics and colours of African art, and the diverse traditions and rich culture. They present a contemporary interpretation of African art, both ancient and modern. They have been using UShoot for several years now, and when they heard about our new modelshoot service they could not wait to try it out!

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Who used our Model Shoot?

Sands & Hall was established in 2015 by Sara and David Hall via Facebook, growing almost overnight into a sought after, ‘go to’ label for luxurious, tweed capes. The focus to date has been on designing and producing ready-to-wear capes in fine Irish and British tweeds and cashmeres for women and men, trailblazing the ongoing trend for the garment and creating pieces that reflect Sands & Hall’s key values of luxury, versatility and timeless elegance.

Their capes are stylish, subtle and made from the highest quality materials. We really love their designs and there were quite a few oohs around the studio as the shoot went on.

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Why model and not just product?

Placing the product on model shows how the garment looks on body, and gives a clearer more honest visual of the product. Which is why many major fashion houses are moving in the direction of model shots first. ASOS are now even giving short video product clips for each item, displaying how to wear and the effects of movement.

The shoot ran smoothly with our man Amir running the photography and there chosen model making it look easy.

And Video…

This was a great opportunity for us to test out our newest feature which is creating video and stills simultaneously.

Watch out for our future produced examples of the results.

  How Sands & Hall had a great Model Shoot with UShoot Studios Model Shoot The big fashion market place is moving inexorably towards leading with model shots supported by product imagery.

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MAIMEI’S luxury silk women’s wear

Amber identified a niche in the market when she began working from home. She lived in her beloved pjs, boyfriend shirts and oversized jumpers – the aim was to be comfortable, however this left her feeling a little caught out when the doorbell would ring. She wanted effortless clothing that would make her feel good in body and in mind. Having found nothing that hit the spot, she recognised a growing need for easy to wear womenswear, that’s as comfortable as it is elegant, so created a collection of tailored silk clothing that would feel like her favourite pyjamas, but look like evening wear.

Thus MaiMei was born, stylish, gorgeous silk clothing.

Silk holds its own versatile list of problems went it comes to photographing, and as such Amber has been looking for the best solution to what was becoming a nightmare of photographic clarity. Ushoot supplied an answer.

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We are becoming more adept with silk than we ever thought we’d need to be. And after a few attempts, and one or two items being re-shot we managed to capture their clothing to reflect the quality, not just of the fabric but the design and the lines all of which hit the word comfy on the head but more than that they look great, and we could quite happily imagine ourselves wearing them on a night out.

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Gorgeous silk womens wear with the comfort of pyjamas by MaiMei MAIMEI'S luxury silk women's wear Amber identified a niche in the market when she began working from home.

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Mini-la-Mode: Oh Baby

Mini-la-Mode was founded by Fee Drummond whose career in fashion, design and handmade collections spans over a decade. While pregnant with her son and setting up her nursery, she noticed that high quality handmade baby clothes and bedding with nostalgia of traditional English style were not easy to find. “I grew up in India with super soft Indian cotton voile quilts and muslins, with hand…

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Chilly’s mission is to accelerate the adoption and everyday use of reusable products. 

“Products with the perfect balance of distinctive style and unrivalled performance.”

The idea for the Chilly’s Bottle was to launch a product that combines the convenience of a plastic water bottle, with the high performance technology and eco-friendly benefits of a traditional flask. 

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The result: a reusable water bottle that offers outstanding performance in a modern and stylish design, that people love to have with them at all times. Chilly’s is a London based business, founded in 2010 and run by James Butterfield and Tim Bouscarle.

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We love their designs, which come in a broad spectrum of colours and patterns which are constantly evolving. THeir pastel range is a particular favourite of ours in the studio, the bright pastel colours with the minimalist design  and ultra-functionality make the product exciting, eye-catching and fun.

On op of the designs there are many benefits to the bottles. Not least of all is that they are insulated, keeping your drink warm or cold respectively. But being metal means we move away from the harmful toxins that can be released from disposable plastics. And of course plastic bottles are an economic crisis, with millions of tons of bottles going to land-fill. In the UK alone we fail to recycle around 16 million plastic bottles a day.

This then is a product we can truly get behind.

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Chilly Bottles Chilly's mission is to accelerate the adoption and everyday use of reusable products.  “Products with the perfect balance of distinctive style and unrivalled performance.”

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Ixobel is a new maternity wear brand with a collection of smart and occasion wear, specifically designed to enable mothers to breastfeed confidently, in style, but with discretion and ease.

Judy Turton discovered a problem, a hole in the fashion industry the hard way. After nine months of worried preparation to become a new mum she thought she was ready. But nothing

“can prepare you for the stress of needing to take your 6-week old baby on a shopping trip to find something suitable to wear to your friend’s wedding! What is it you are looking for? Something comfortable, yet formal. Oh and of course, you also need to be able to breastfeed in it.”

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She simply couldn’t find anything to wear that was appropriate. And after doing a survey of nearly 1000 new mums she realised that this wasn’t a problem just for her.

So she set out to change things. She set out to help all new mums feel confident, comfortable and be able to feed their babies wherever they were without the overwhelming self-confidence.

And we think the results are fantastic.

  Their website is coming soon

IXOBEL.com

Ixobel Ixobel is a new maternity wear brand with a collection of smart and occasion wear, specifically designed to enable mothers to breastfeed confidently, in style, but with discretion and ease.

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Iris & Bee is all about flowers.

Prints and paintings and we think they have some just gorgeous art.

They came across the all too familiar problem of how to digitise their art. It can be done at home of course, set up a little studio, try and get a shot precisely head on, or perhaps artistically create a background out of some cleverly folded sheets. This however, isn’t ideal. The consistency is never quite right, and the lighting will likely be off so the colours aren’t good representations.

The other option then is to get yourself a photographer who can set up in a studio, who has all manners of equipment and get to it. But this simply isn’t cost efficient.

UShoot Studios offers the solution. Our machines are self-contained studios in themselves with the lighting ready and on the horizontal machine the camera is fixed in position above the table top. This means you get excellent, consistent shots. All you have to do is place your art on the machine. There is even an overlay grid so that you can line up the pictures perfectly straight every time.

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Flower Power with Iris & Bee Iris & Bee is all about flowers. Prints and paintings and we think they have some just gorgeous art.

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Marc Craig is a street artist based in London who works primarily with large scale murals, both on his own and as part of the street art collective Psychdodoodlz which he also founded in 2015.  He has a broad range of creativity working within the disciplines of textiles, graphics, photography, sculpture and ceramics.

In 2016 Marc completed 45 murals and was filmed for a Guinness advert in Leake Street which was launched in 2016.  He also along with some of his fellow artists worked on the enormous mural for the Wahacca Day Of The Dead celebration and he has had his individual work exhibited in locations such as Chelsea and Mayfair. Other projects included being filmed with Chef Nic and Maggie Cheung as part of the episode based in London and lastly he worked on the promotional mural for the Coppafeel charity event at The Vans.

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We have thoroughly enjoyed having some of Marcs work come through the studio. They are captivating, intense, colourful  and fun.

Find out more about Marc HERE

Marc Craig Marc Craig is a street artist based in London who works primarily with large scale murals, both on his own and as part of the street art collective Psychdodoodlz which he also founded in 2015.  

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A brand new ethical art organisation based in London that instils more fairness, more originality and more diversity in the International Art scene.

Their artists are based in Haiti, meaning despite their obvious and undeniable talent they have a restricted access to the international art market. Thus the THE smARTest PROJECT was born, to stimulate equity for these artists gain them the rewards and exposure they deserve.

Alex came in with a whole hoard of incredible artwork that needed shooting. He had been searching for a while for a way he could efficiently shoot the art. This is where UShoot came in. He had over a hundred pieces that he desperately needed digitised but he was not willing to spend a fortune yet unwilling to compromise on quality.

Collected from all over the world this artwork is remarkable, unique, challenging and different and Alex has made it his mission to get it out there and get it the recognition, and exposure that it deserves.

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Some astonishing imagery, Haitian culture and spirits heavily influence, and yet in a lot of the work there is are underlying and recognisable elements. For example, a lot of christian allusion.

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The art often has powerful cultural, spiritual and symbolic messages drawn from a rich culture. It is unlike anything you would find in modern western art, the creative visions are weird, wonderful, expressionate. What we really love about it is it makes you think. It makes you pause, stop and consider exactly what it is you are looking at. It is a window into a rich, vibrant and old culture that is barely ever seen.

Discover more of this work on their website HERE

  THE smARTest PROJECT A brand new ethical art organisation based in London that instils more fairness, more originality and more diversity in the International Art scene.

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The Healthy Back Bag is all about bags for everybody for very occasion. They have been using Ushoot since day one.

Designed with their unique patented teardrop shape the bags are like no other. The idea behind the bag is to combine perfectly ideas of comfort, practicality and function all in a stylish designer bag. No easy task.

The bags shape is what really sets it apart, the cross body single-strap bag spreads weight down your spine making heavy loads feel lighter and making it good for your back. This isn’t what we really love about them though. The shape is intriguing but it’s their designs that really supply the wow factor.

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With over a hundred SKUs running at any one time, with simple and suave black leather bags, to eye-catching Aztec patterns their bags really do it all.

With new ranges being released with every season they need a near constant supply of imagery!

Bobby  came in last week with their SS18 range. A wonderful and colourful collection with vibrant tropical colours alongside rusty urban industrial hues.

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Mulberry, Green Flash and Sierra are all part of the SS17 range

Bobby runs all the Healthy Back Bag shoots and is now a very competent user of both our machines. And ladened with several big IKEA bags he arrived and cracked on. The results speak for themselves. Their photography is detailed and really captures the patterns and colours of their bags. And the shoots, run by the same person, shot on the same machines have an excellent precision and uniformity.

Check out their product range on their website here

The Healthy Back Bag The Healthy Back Bag is all about bags for everybody for very occasion. They have been using Ushoot since day one.

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Olivier Baby was set up in 2011 by Emma Davison, who was shortly after joined by her sister, Alice Smith. Emma is herself a passionate knitter and as a team they design and create all the samples themselves. These samples are then put through the most rigorous quality tests by their children.

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They aim to reflect the fun and laughter of their own childhoods in their deigns, instilling a distinct sense of nostalgia in many of their designs. Their shapes and lines are classic, and paired with refreshing and comforting colours. Stylish traditional, timeless designs instilled with that element of fun that is so quintessential of childhood. Whether it’s a star on the elbows or a heart on the bottom there is a little something on each item to make you smile. Importantly, all their clothes are hard wearing, soft and comfortable. So the kids look great and feel great, nothing to stop them from having fun.

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Find them at Olivier Baby

Olivier Baby Olivier Baby was set up in 2011 by Emma Davison, who was shortly after joined by her sister, Alice Smith.

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TAG - Fine Art

TAG – Fine Art

Our machines make digitising art an absolute doddle. It is no surprise then that we get quite a lot of art coming through our doors. TAG fine arts launched in 2006. They are based in the same building as us in Islington. They have a assortment of fantastic artist using various different mediums. From sculpture to huge prints. All of this need digitising which has previously been a huge problem…

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Oh… my! Kidswear is a new fashion label created by Johnathon Swead and Anna Davies. The idea was to create a ‘quintessentially British brand with an eccentric twist.’ They combine simple lines with fabulous, eye-catching design details. Those striking designs on high-quality fabric make their clothing unique.

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Bright colours and bold patterns. To capture this in their photography and infuse life into their product requires intense attention to detail and excellent lighting. With our machines these challenges are simplified a great deal making the shooting process smoother, more efficient and more effective.

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We absolutely love this pairing of the simplicity of the cut with the complexity of design and print that makes these stand out.

Check out there website HERE

Oh… my! Kidswear Oh… my! Kidswear is a new fashion label created by Johnathon Swead and Anna Davies. The idea was to create a ‘quintessentially British brand with an eccentric twist.’ They combine simple lines with fabulous, eye-catching design details.

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William Yeoward is considered one of the design scene’s leading creative forces, famed for creating elegance and comfort at home. Designer of truly beautiful products including furniture, crystal, lighting and many other accessories. We love his gorgeous upholstery and curtain fabrics and soft furnishings.

They sent in five carpets the biggest of which was over two metres wide and 3 metres long. Such a vast product presents a rather obvious problem. As we helped carry the rugs in from the van we worried. These were the biggest things we had ever shot.

In the end we were worrying over nothing. Admittedly heavy, awkward but we all piled in to help. And with two people to lift and style then hold in place on our flatbed table and another to shoot it was remarkably simple.

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For these we took four shots, and in post-production comped the final image together, giving the full image. For items lie this our horizontal machine is perfect and it is a relatively simple and easy process to post-produce these into one cohesive image ready for use online.

Check out their website HERE

William Yeoward William Yeoward is considered one of the design scene’s leading creative forces, famed for creating elegance and comfort at home.