A Beginner's Guide to Product Photography

Learn how to shoot clear, simple e-commerce product photos with white backgrounds and consistent lighting, using both DIY and professional setups, covering setup, shooting, and editing.

Learn to create an e-commerce white void with a do-it-yourself white box, using a fixed camera on a tripod and soft, even lighting to showcase small products.

Master a simple, budget-friendly e-commerce product shoot using a white backdrop, clear bin, and work lights to overexpose for a white void, testing angles and camera settings.

Learn to create ecommerce-ready product photos with subtle Lightroom edits: adjust exposure, highlights, whites and blacks, and clean dust to a pristine white background.

Prepare a pro e-commerce shoot with a flat white surface, ironed garments, and tested strobes, remotes, and camera, then present items for online use with controlled lighting.

Master pro-level e-commerce product photography on a white backdrop with a floor lay and overhead strobe to achieve even light, plus close-ups of logos and tags.

Learn pro-level techniques for editing e-commerce photos in Lightroom, balance color, isolate the white background with brushes and auto mask, and refine details without sacrificing subject.

Learn how commercial product photography promotes products by setting objects in appealing scenes, from a bottle in a diy kitchen to a solid color backdrop with strobes.

Explore at-home, do-it-yourself commercial product photography using natural daylight, a single camera, lens, and tripod, with white and black boards for positive and negative fill to shape studio-like images.

Master at-home product photography by shaping window and kitchen light, using bounce cards and props, and controlling reflections to create depth and a high-end bottle look.

Learn a practical at-home product photo editing workflow in Lightroom (and Photoshop) to fix white balance, crop, adjust exposure, contrast, and noise, and to remove distractions like reflections and spots.

Set up a professional studio shoot for a Leica, shaping light with strobe and soft boxes, using bounce cards, mirrors, and a gray backdrop to create premium product imagery.

Master editing studio lighting for product photography by refining white balance, exposure, contrast, and cropping, then applying noise reduction and vignette for a magazine-ready commercial look.

Explore lifestyle product photography that showcases products in natural use, like clothing on a model or in real settings, to convey look, vibe, and selling appeal with demo clothing.

Capture outdoors lifestyle product photography featuring a model wearing the logoed shirt and hat, using backlighting and shade to highlight the graphics.

Edit lifestyle product photos to accurately reflect color and branding for websites and social media. Align edits with a client’s style, using masking, blemish removal, sharpening, and presets.