Please review these guidelines or you will lose the opportunity to be part of the tester program:
IF YOU CANNOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS, OUTLINED BELOW, YOU WILL BE BILLED FOR THE FULL PRICE OF THE DROP(S).
1) Please provide *PROFESSIONAL* quality images. This means:
- Please provide properly lit images.
- No on-camera flash photography.
- Please have appropriate studio lighting (soft boxes, umbrellas, or a proper grasp on how to use natural lighting).
- Proper white balance.
- Sharp images, in focus, only.
3) Please coordinate with your models ahead of time to plan outfits that suit the backdrop theme. Images of subjects in mismatched or everyday street clothes won’t be usable for our advertising and will require a reshoot. Rushed, placeholder photos just to meet the deadline are not acceptable.
4) Use suitable props and accessories to enhance the scene, but avoid covering key parts of the design. Please prepare your setup in advance, just as you would for a client session. We cannot extend deadlines to wait for props to arrive after your backdrop is delivered.
6) If you encounter issues with your model, please email us at [email protected]. We understand that not every shoot goes as planned. It’s better to communicate and reschedule than to submit images of upset or uncooperative models, which we can’t use and will require a reshoot.
We have *no need* for close up images of the models.
Non-typical crops are okay to get the whole backdrop in the final image. We are not printing these images a portrait client would, so we don't need typical cropping.
Please do not cut off the design in cropping.
Please photograph the design horizontal if it is oriented horizontal.
Please photograph the design vertical if it is oriented vertical.
9) Please perform any basic edits needed to the image(s). Pop the color if needed, sharpen, color correct, fix white balance issues - this is encouraged. Please DO NOT add any textures, vignettes, or actions that change the coloring of the image.
10) By participating in this program you understand that Photo Prop Floors & Backdrops will be permitted to use these images for advertising their products on various websites and all forms of social media.
11) Please check the email address you ordered with. This is where your:
2- where we send any reminders about images due.
12) When the images are ready please post them to our group - we are looking for more interaction and the sharing of images as our main goal of the testers (and of course to use for advertising).
Please credit us when posting on social media. If you are posting in another photography group please feel free to refer others to our group.