Practical tips for photographing products

Now that we know the importance of product photography, in today’s article we give you some practical tips for photographing products that will surely help you if you’re starting out in this type of photography.

How to photograph a product?

Use Live View

If your camera has Live View technology, use it. The camera position will probably not be the most comfortable to use the traditional viewfinder, so Live View will help you. It’s essential for focusing tasks.

The histogram, your ally

Don’t trust everything your eyes see or your camera screen shows. If you want to know if your photograph is correctly exposed, and believe me, in product photography you want and need to know this, this tool will be your ally.

Control the lighting

Lighting is undoubtedly the most important step for photographing products optimally, but it’s also the one that requires the most knowledge. As a general tip, we recommend using diffused light for reflective objects and harder light for objects with a matte finish.

Always edit your photos

Although you may not believe it, all photographs, no matter how well taken, have a post-production process behind them. Color correction, light and shadow adjustment, object cropping…

The basic configuration of your camera

What can we tell you that you don’t already know; don’t overuse ISO if you don’t want to lose sharpness, use a tripod to avoid blurriness, use a remote shutter to avoid moving your camera when pressing the shutter, work in RAW format to get the best results, control the white balance manually, and be aware of the minimum focusing distance of your lens and avoid reflections on your products.

Connecting the camera to your computer, the next level

This step will help you have absolute control over some of the tips for photographing products that we’ve given you earlier. You’ll be able to better visualize and more clearly see the focus, the image exposure, and details that you might miss on the small screen of your camera.

But, if in addition to visualizing you want to control all these parameters on the computer, at Avisual Studios we have the Orbitvu Alphastudio XXL. Esta solución fotográfica tiene everything necessary that we’ve told you about in this article in a single device. It has the complete lighting

needed built-in. With its motorized rotating set, you can create 360-degree images and videos and work with two cameras simultaneously through its software.

You can adjust the camera and lighting settings remotely from your computer, generate different output files and even automatically upload the content to your e-commerce or social networks if you wish.

Additionally, it has a product positioning laser so you don’t have to modify your parameters based on the product position and your camera. Speaking of configurations, you can save them as templates to work faster. It also has an external Manfrotto support and one integrated into the machine itself that will allow us to take photographs in a zenithal position.

Now that you know everything you need to know about photographing products and about the AlphaStudio XXL, we invite you to visit our Product Corner where you can carry out all kinds of photography projects.