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TIPS: 15 simple and effective tips for product photography

admin March 18,2017

We know that everyone in different fields who wants to get the best result must invest effort, time and even money. However, these tips below, I hope to help you to save a lot of these things. Getting ready!

Cleaning product before taking photo

This is a very simple step that newbies rarely notice. If we take a little time to clean, for example, just one minute, we will save one hundred minutes for editing and fix the picture. I am sure that you will be crazy when sitting down and deleting every single strand of hair and blemishes by Photoshop. The other simple tip is we should use rubber gloves to prevent fingerprints or sweat from sticking to the product.

Setting up MF instead of AF

The next tip I want to tell you is to use MF. Maybe, you won’t believe that in the photo studio, MF is always better than AF because we make sure to know what area in the scenery we want to focus on instead of letting the automatic mode of your camera do it. A typical example is when you take the water, with the requirement is to capture at 1/8000s. Is AF fast enough? The answer is No. Using AF Automatic mode is a bad idea.

Making the light softer

Always find the way to spread the light, creating a softer light and the shadows will be smoother. This includes that we never use the flashlight directly when shooting the product.

Setting up the light source for the background

Illuminating or creating a bright spot for the background behind the product will make the product more eye-catching. In addition, the light sources of background can help to create the beautiful light rim, especially with liquids, this job will brighten the liquid.

Setting up WB manually and using Gray card

Product photography has rarely an intervention of color blends. Its mission is to make the product as beautiful and real colorful as possible, so instead of learning how to blend colors, photographers must learn how to reproduce the colors of the product to make them as real as possible (of course, make it more beautiful).

Using light equipment of the same brand

Do not mix an environment with the flash of Nikon, Nissin, Yongnuo… with Broncolor, Paul C Buff, Jinbei… because each lamp from each brand will have a different color temperature, mixing together will lead to the problem that we can’t balance the image’s color exactly. A little red light source, a little yellow one, a little green one… if you mix them together, just Gods know how to rebalance.

Using white background

If you are wondering what backgrounds you should use or you don’t know which is better, so the white background is always the best choice. In a white background, everything will be outstanding and there are no distractions.

Tripod is indispensable

A good tripod is an indispensable thing of taking product photo. It helps us get stable frames, eliminate vibration and even that we can remote remotely it while we are manipulating the product.

Brand

The importance of product photography is to help to make an impression on the viewer about the product and its brand. If we put the brand name or product name in the shadow, customers won’t know where this beautiful product comes from.

Run around

Do not stand in one place and take a snapshot, changing the different angles will create different pictures. Especially in the product photography, the angle changes will lead to the effect of light changes as well.

DOF

Except for food photography, in the shots of the product image, we often have to let DOF  to be a little thick to make the image of the product become sharper. It is not good when taking a headphone that just a half of character, absolutely not. Depending on the type of lens and the subject taken, DOF will correspond with, usually, at least is F9 or more.

Always use histogram

Nowadays, the LCD screen is more and more faked. The best way to know a photo is over or under-exposed is to look at the histogram. If there is no left or right edge cut, the image will look nice.

Notice the reflections of the wall and ceiling of studio

This is something that people pay less attention to. With a small studio area, the wall should be painted black color or we have to cover them appropriately if not, the light will be in widespread effervescence over the studio and we will see the studio printed on the shadow in the product.

Should go to the dustbin or walk around junk-yard

This is an ideal place to look for cheap things but they are the appropriate items to set the scene. It is easy to find pieces of wood, old furniture added in the background for the beautiful shot.15. Use Photo Editing service or do it yourself?

 Use outsource Photo Editing or Do it yourself?

 After shooting your photos, you need to edit photos to make them look more clean and professional. When you edit large batches of photos, you need to spend a lot of time. Instead of spending this time, why not focus on high-growth activities for your business? When you think about all the time and money, outsource photo editing. Please check out how easy it is to start by trying 3 free photo edit today.
Now, We’re really good at editing photos—  it’s all we do.Thanks and welcome!