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Built for people who sell real things
Shotina came out of building online stores for rug dealers, jewelers and decor brands, and watching every single one of them get stuck in the same place.
The site was never the problem
We would build a shop a dealer was proud of, and two weeks later the catalogue would be half empty. Not because the products were not there, but because photographing them was a job nobody had time for and nobody could afford to outsource.
A rug dealer with two hundred pieces in a warehouse cannot book a photographer two hundred times. So the good rugs stay in the back and the phone photos go online.
Three rules we build against
The product is not negotiable
Change the room, the floor, the light, the props. Never the piece. A photo that improves the product is a return waiting to happen, and it costs the seller their reputation, not ours.
Finished, not almost finished
A folder of images is not the job. The job ends when the product page is live with the right photos in the right order and a description under them.
Priced like a tool, not a platform
One credit, one photo, no seats, no monthly minimum. A dealer with forty rugs should be able to try this for the price of lunch.
Made for the awkward categories
Rugs, jewelry and decor are the three hardest things to photograph and the three most photo-dependent things to sell. That is deliberate.
Every image on this site was generated, not photographed.
Including the rug in the hero, the ring on the hand and the vase on the shelf. If the output was not good enough to sell the product itself, it would not be good enough to sell yours.
The short version
Tell us what you are trying to photograph
We answer every message, and the difficult cases are the interesting ones.