You need a clean bike, even light, a few honest angles, and files that fit greenmoov.app's JPEG and PNG rules. You don't need a studio for it.
Would you book a bike you can barely see?
Renters scan photos first. A dark cluttered shot of a dusty frame makes them assume the battery and the brakes got the same careless treatment. That's a booking you already lost.
The photo guide on greenmoov.app covers prep, shooting, and upload. Here's a tighter pass for operators who repeat this all week.
Start with a bike that looks rental-ready
Wipe before you shoot. Grime photographs worse than it looks in person.
Park the e-bike where you'll photograph it. Then run this pass:
- Pull off bags, extra locks, water bottles, and anything that hides the frame, battery, or display.
- Wipe the frame, fork, and motor housing, then shine the tires and knock grit off the chain.
- Set lights, reflectors, and the battery in a use-ready position, not dangling.
- Set the charger, spare key, or helmet aside for a kit shot later if they ship with the rental.
Silca's bike photography notes push a polished drivetrain and clean rubber because those details read as care even in a phone snapshot. You don't need show-bike polish here. You need the bike to look maintained.
A scuffed chainstay can stay in the picture. It's honest wear, not a defect you have to hide. Mud on the rotor is not wear. Wipe it before the shutter clicks.
Background and light before you open the camera
The background should disappear.
A plain wall, a tidy garage door, or a quiet patch of pavement works better than a busy storefront. Keep other bikes out of the frame.
Natural light is the default. Midday open shade or golden hour both beat a ceiling bulb.
Wipe the phone lens with a cloth before you shoot the first frame, since fingerprints wreck sharpness more often than a cheap sensor does. The sensor was never the problem.
Indoor shoots still work when weather or a night shift leaves you no choice. Orbitvu's product lighting notes put lamps at about 45 degrees on each side so shadows don't swallow the downtube. Raise one lamp a little if you can.
That height gap adds shape. Weak listing photos are usually lighting problems. Turns out the camera was never the issue.
Don't mix a warm shop bulb with a cool window. The battery housing will look like the wrong color.
Angles that show scale, not just the logo
Turn on the grid overlay in your camera app. Align the horizon so the wheels don't look oval.
Shoot more than one hero frame, because renters need to judge size, cockpit layout, and how the battery sits in its mount. Start with a full side view.
The bike should fill most of the frame with both wheels on the ground. Add a three-quarter from the front so the handlebar, display, and fork actually read.
A slight low angle against a wall or curb gives scale. Then move in for the battery, display, drivetrain, and extras. Check each frame before you walk away.
Crooked wheels are cheaper to reshoot now. You can work from a phone. The greenmoov.app photo guide assumes that.
Keep the grid on and wipe the lens again, then center the bike in the frame so you don't have to crop later. Don't crop later if you can avoid it.
Photograph the kit and the scuffs
A pretty side shot won't answer the questions that stall a booking. Thing is, renters want the kit and the scuffs too.
Lay the charger, keys, lock, and extra bits on a clean floor and photograph that pile in one frame. Seeing the full kit cuts extra messages.
iRentMy's rental photography notes treat that kit shot as standard, plus a close-up of existing scratches so pickup isn't a fight. If the downtube has a scrape, shoot it.
Same for a marked saddle or a nick in the paint. Renters who see wear in the listing don't treat it as new damage at return.
Don't fake a scene that isn't true. An action shot on a path helps if that's how you rent the bike. A borrowed mountain backdrop for a city commuter doesn't.
If you're lining up four bikes after a morning wash, keep the same wall, the same distance, the same camera height, because a fleet that looks like four different people shot it on four different days makes renters wonder which bike they're actually getting even when the written specs match. Do the whole row that way.
Battery close-ups should show the pack seated in its cradle and the display at a readable angle. You're documenting a listing, not doing a mechanical inspection. Run the pre-ride inspection checklist as its own pass.
File specs Greenmoov.app actually accepts
Upload JPEG or PNG. Keep each file under 10MB. You still need enough pixels that the listing doesn't look soft on a laptop.
| Requirement | What to meet |
|---|---|
| Format | JPEG or PNG |
| Resolution | At least 1024x683 pixels |
| File size | Under 10MB each |
Larger than 1024x683 is fine if you stay under the size cap. Soft, stretched images are not.
Export at full resolution from the phone, then crop only if you must straighten a horizon you missed in-camera. Crop only if you must straighten.
Open the listing dashboard, drop the files in, and check the preview on the first try. Put the full bike first and let the detail shots follow in a walkaround order.
Reorder until the sequence feels like walking around the bike. Preview on a phone and a desktop.
Sharp on a small screen can still smear on a monitor.
When to reshoot instead of editing
Straighten in-camera with the grid. A minor crop is okay if you still clear 1024x683. Heavy filters, fake white backgrounds, and oversharpening make the paint look like a different bike.
You can't crop your way out of a muddy exposure. A filter won't fix a cluttered alley.
Reshoot after a wash or a repair. Do it after a battery swap or a seasonal tire change too. Stale photos of last year's fenders confuse people, and they write in.
Most fleets skip the reshoot until a renter complains the bike doesn't match the pictures. That's a worse time to update, to be honest.
If natural light is gone and your indoor lamps still leave a black hole under the motor, just wait. One good morning set beats five muddy night shots.
After you upload, open the renter-facing preview on greenmoov.app and tap through the gallery the way a stranger would. Replace that first image before you publish.