How to Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

How to Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography - Do it the Beauty Blogger Way Hey people.. I am sure most of you might be surprised to see this feature but I was a bit bored over the product reviews and I recently got a DSLR though not all my recent reviews has the latest pictures but if you see, few of them had good pictures. I own a normal camera too and I click my pictures both my old and the new camera. While I enjoy seeing my great pictures there were readers who emailed me on knowing how I click my blog pictures. Most of my blog has product photography and yes I do have tiny secrets which I kept for myself all these days. I can say these are OPEN Secrets to Great Photography but you see, letting people know about your secrets is fun and nice at the same time.I am sure this would help the upcoming beauty bloggers in someway.  So, let me share few of my ways on how I click pictures.

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

1. Using Natural light
In my room, luckily I have a side where I get the sunlight and most of my pictures are taken from that side. Well, most of you use the same light.. I prefer using an aluminum foil on the opposite side to avoid shadows.
BEFORE:
Can you see the shadows?

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

Using this method.. I made it by using a card board. I covered the card board with aluminum foil.It reflects the light and doesn't allow the shadows to be prominent.

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

 After:

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

Can you see the difference between the above images.?? 2. Make your own Light Box Well..this is one of the bestest ideas ever and I feel this is my best diy porject I have done so far. I did it myself with the help of my dad. It hardly costs you 1000 INR for some equipment that includes white cloth, table lamps and bulbs. BEST PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY SETUP Under 1000 INR

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

As you can see what exactly I did. Google it if you are not sure on how I did. It is super easy. I used the white chart paper as background here. When I use the light box, the pictures come out as

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

A close up version of the same product in light box

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

3. Mixing the Step 1 and Step 2 This is the same thing except for the aluminum sheet to be place to the opposite end just to make the pic more luminous.

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

4.Different Background I don't know about you guys but I see most people use white paper as a default background. Infact I am one of those. But I like to experiment and this one seemed to be very promising to me. This is the other side of a typical gift wrap paper. It made the entire scene look different which I can try for some dull looking products.

How to: Take Great Pictures - Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

5. Use a Software I use Photoshop,PhotoScape,Picasa and MS Office Picture Manager. Do let me know if you want to see anything specific related to these softwares. I am hoping that these tips would help you in your future photography sessions. All the very best to your blogging journey.