hello James Greaney here from Internetbizuni.com and in today's video I'm
going to show you how you can choose professional product images
on an extremely tight budget so I'm gonna go through the exact equipment
that I use here I'm gonna show you how to set it up and position your product
when you're taking the images and what you can do after you have the products
taken to make sure that they look really professional and OnPoint
so the reason why I decided to shoot this video today was because I set up
here for my own product shoots at the moment this isn't something that I
usually do I've sent this product that I'm gonna
take anaemic off to a professional photographer in the past and had
professional photographs taken of us and I use them on my product listing but
since that I've made some really slight changes to my product so instead of
sending off my product to a professional again and paid another two hundred to
three hundred dollars to get professional pictures taken I'm just
gonna take the pictures myself and the setup that I want to show you here cost
me in total of 25 pounds to set up so it's really low cost setup and it's
simply going to be quicker for me just to take the pictures and have the
pictures ready to you straight away forever than waiting for a professional
to receive the product take the pictures and then send them back to me so it just
works out more simple this way but if you're starting out and maybe you don't
have the budget to go to a professional then what I'm gonna show you here he's
going to show you exactly how you can take high quality professional
functional to yourself from home obviously it takes more work than simply
just sending your products off to a professional to get your products
pictures taken post it is gonna save you some money so the first thing that I'm
gonna show you is my setup so there are two things that you need and one is the
light so this is just a wide frame light that I purchased from Amazon Dakota UK
and I paid 20 pounds for us and the second thing that you need is what's
blown in the wind there which is the white sheet this is just a white sheet
that goes from nearly the ceiling down as far as around 2/4 3/4 away from the
wall but again you can simply adjust this this is just
contact into the wall so it's just two simple tags holding it up but again you
can set up a similar setup to this or you can make a more paranormal fixture
but this isn't a permanent fixture here at the moment so to Tom tags will do
will hold it in place for now if you are taking pictures make sure that you're in
a blacked-out room the only light that should be on is your big light and I'll
show you in just a moment where you should be standard when taking the
images and also make sure that any natural light is blocked out so that is
the window behind me even that it's nighttime here you can still see the
streetlights and that may cause some shadows on your product or just mess up
the light so make sure that that is blacked out even if it is just closing
down the blinds that's all I'm gonna do when I'm taking the pictures here but
yeah it's a pretty simple setup when I adjust the camera now and show you an
example of a product that you could be taking a photo off and just a different
setup that I have where I'll be standard when taking the pictures the next thing
that you need actually I didn't mention this I just took this one for granted is
a phone so if you have a phone with a HD camera that's perfect if not you're
gonna have to purchase a HD camera but if you have an iPhone or any kind of new
phone that has a camera then your back camera is a good camera to use don't use
the front camera because it has less pixels than the back camera so when you
are taking pictures make sure that you're taking up with the back I'm going
to adjust this camera position here now so that you can see my setup and see
exactly how I will go about taking these images and I will try and remember to
put the links for both of these products down in the description basically any
white light like this will do and any white sheet you can use a smaller white
sheet if you have smaller products but if you have you know mix size products
or if you don't know the exact products you're going to be purchasing then I
would just get a white sheet like this one this one only cost like a fiver from
Amazon so I will just get a sheet like this and then this will do any size
product but if you do have very small product so you can just get one of them
light boxes as well which is just this sheet inside a box you just shine the
light into take a picture off of there so yeah okay
so then to taking your picture you basically want to be in line with your
being light that's shooting down on top of your product and on top of your white
screen you want your entire product to be covered by the light you also want
the white sheet there to be enough of it to the right to the left to the back to
the front just like you can see there as long as there's a bit on each side of it
that's okay don't worry if you get a bit off you know the outside mass or the
outside florid in the image you can crop that out later as long as there is a
foot either side at least wolf off either side of it your image will be
fine then you want to again use the back of
your camera if you're using your phone because the back of the camera is a
better camera you will want to make sure that you have the focus switched on on
your camera so just tap on the camera to make sure the focus is on and then just
take your image you want to make sure to take images from different angles so
even though the product is in the same angle if you take an image from up high
then down low then in the middle you will get the best angle for us you could
check back on all your images later when you upload them to your computer but for
now just make sure to take two photos of this angle two photos in the center and
two photos down low because again you won't know until you look back major
which angle is the best angle for your product and by taking two photos off
each end up you'll be able to pick out the best one then simply just rotate
your product around and do the same again take two from the top two from the
middle and two from the bottom and again you can pick out the best angle later
and that's pretty much it the most important part is that you are not on
front of the light block and the logical publish shadow on top of the product if
you're in line with it you'll be in a good position to take your picture make
sure that the focus is armed in your camera to get a steady picture office
and take plenty of pictures you know the biggest problem that I've had and do
this in the past is I've had to come back to the screen around 10 times
because I've kind of seen something from the image that I could add a different
and I just don't have that image taken so when you are taking the images just
make sure to take plenty of them at different angles again you can delete
99% of the laser and keep the best 1% but if you don't have the picture taken
you can't keep it so make sure to take plenty of pictures when you're taking
your pictures so yeah if you're just starting out and you don't have the
budget for professional images then just get this set up or a similar type set up
as this and take your own images if you're not 100% happy with the way they
come out you can send these images to someone on Fiverr and that's often a
good thing to do is what they can do is smooth out the background so if you have
any creases in the back white and area or anthing like that they can smooth
that out and they can add contrast to your product so that it highlights more
and brings it more to life in the image so it's definitely worth doing for the
sake of $5 is sending it to someone in Fiverr after you have your best images
picked out for your product and what I will do I will leave the links to the
different products that I've used and to the fiber listing that I've used in the
past I will leave them down in the description so if you are taking product
photography yourself you can just jump down into the description see the
products that I've used again you don't have to go ahead and purchase the exact
products but I will show you the exact products that I have set up here with
and these all do a very professional look and image for me and it's ideal
when you don't have a lot of images to take so for the likes of me
when I only really want to show off this new feature in the product with the
images it's ideal for that because I don't have to get every picture perfect
I just have to take a lot of pictures and pull out one or two that meet my
requirement whereas if it is a brand new product or you have a lot of different
products to take pictures off and you want to get these pictures spot-on then
send in a to a professional is often the best way to get this because you'll
spend a long time getting the right images that you need to really showcase
your product whereas leaving it up to the professionals someone who does it
every day of the week they will be able to do it a lot quicker and a lot more
efficiently than you will but it really is nothing to fear and I remember when I
first got started I got stuck on this one for a while about images should I
take them myself didn't have a whole lot of money when I
was first out now should I go and pay someone to take professional ones I
didn't know how to take my own images myself you know made a good attempt at
it but didn't rightly know whereas now after just see an image
after image and doing this a lot of times he kind of know what to expect and
that's basically what I want to get across to you even when photography no
matter what it is you're doing it's gonna take time to get good at it and
make sure to take the time when you first start make sure to kind of be
patient with it because you're not going to be the best photographer in the world
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that's pretty much it for this video hope that you have enjoyed it hope that
you learned something I look forward to speaking to you on the next one bye