How to Improve Product Photography

Asif Iftekhar
4 min readDec 27, 2020

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An image may say 1,000 words, yet with regards to product photography, photos can be worth dollars. Internet shopping has improved the lives of customers everywhere around the world and has made it simpler than at any time to run businesses. You at this point don’t require a Store, as much staff, a huge amount of stock, and a conventional marketing plan to sell. Today I will impart to you how you can improve your product photography.

Plan Ahead-

Efficient studios are well sorted out. They know every day and every week what they are shooting. They plan their photography stations, photographers, collaborators, studio space, and product shipments, and so on. Planning prepares for steady creation rates and picture quality.

Take two studios; put them next to each other. One follows the ad hoc method — products show up at the studio, they shoot what they get, and one day leads into the following. The second beginnings with a product list, they plan their week and month, they shoot products by gatherings, and structure studios and photographers depending on product types and required skills. They efficiently deal with the products as per the arrangement. The second studio squashes the first both from a creation and a picture quality perspective. So plan ahead, you and your managers will be happy you did.

Use Appropriate Lighting -

We should begin with product photography lighting. Without proper light, neither your product nor your experience will show up how it does to you in person. “A white foundation without light doesn’t seem white in the photograph, it seems dark,” There are two choices for product photography lighting: studio lighting and normal lighting. The product that you’re shooting, the reason for the photograph, and the stage on which you’re promoting it will assist you with choosing what type of lighting to go for.

Use a Tripod -

Stands may sound a geeky, unnecessary part of equipment; however, they have a colossal effect on the clarity and quality of your product photography. Also, they are not really expensive or hard to use!

Get a DSLR Camera-

In the event that you’re in a situation to purchase another camera, Do it. There are a lot of reasons, quality DSLR cameras out there that will work admirably. For the absolute best quality and performance, a camera is ideal — that is the reason photographers use them. Whatever you pick, ensure that you use your hardware to its maximum capacity by finding out pretty much the entirety of its highlights and capitalizing on them.

Have Various High-quality Lenses Close by -

For standard studio product photography, 2 lenses ought to be fine:

Zoom Lens: You will presumably take the vast majority of your product shots with a standard long-range lens — either an 18–200mm or a 24–70mm — relies on what you are shooting.

Macro Lens: You need this available for close-up shots of your products.

Taking everything into account better lens takes better pictures — they are clearer, have a better tone, and give more definition to photos.

The issue is — the better lens is MUCH more costly.

For instance, you can purchase a Nikon 7200 camera with a DX NIKKOR 18–140mm f/3.5–5.6G ED VR lens for $1,500. On the off chance that you take pictures with this combo and, at that point change out the lens and take pictures with a Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24–70mm f/2.8G ED lens which costs $1,750 (the new form just delivered is $2,400) you will see that the 24–70 takes much better pictures.

Shoot Various Angles-

In the event that individuals are purchasing online, at that point they can’t get and contact with the product. That implies you need to attempt to pass on all the little subtleties to the likely buyer. The most ideal approach to do this is by ensuring that you catch an assortment of points of everything. Additionally, get in close to show the subtleties if it’s important.

This is particularly significant if the thing is handcrafted. Getting in close can flaunt the consideration and thought that a craftsman places into their work. The subtleties are what frequently set carefully assembled products besides their mass-produced partners. So make certain to show them off!

Shooting numerous angles is likewise a simple method to create parts more substance for online media accounts. Numerous entrepreneurs battle to discover enough substance to post consistently via the website, so it can truly get them out.

Make Editing Spotless and Precise -

On the off chance that you truly need to get extraordinary at shooting your own product photographs, get ready to shoot a ton. The more pictures you take, the more instruments and tips and lighting circumstances you attempt, the more you’ll learn. The more you learn, the better you’ll get.

Recall that a few out of every odd picture you take is a champ. Become used to shooting and separating quality photos. Afterward, heartlessly trash what didn’t work. It’s smarter to junk 1000 pictures that didn’t work and have 5 awesome pictures than to just shoot 20 and end up with 20 not really good or bad photographs.

At the point when it comes time to alter, don’t include gimmicky channels in post-preparing. It doesn’t make a difference in the event that you use Photoshop or GIMP — messy, excessively conditioned channels make your pictures look amateurish and your products unwanted. Keep your whites white, your tones brilliant, and your subtleties sharp. Or you could hire a professional photo retouching company to retouch your photos for you but this will come with a small price.

Finally, Having quality photos will help you create an audience that will become your future customer on your website. So whatever you do put your heart to it and slowly but surely you will improve your product photography.

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Asif Iftekhar
Asif Iftekhar

Written by Asif Iftekhar

Graphic Designer — Imaging Specialist. Manager at CPH Graphics Media www.clippingpathhouse.com

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