Product Photography Tips: Lighting is King. {The Homespun Life Photography}

I’m constantly fielding questions about product photography. In my role as curator of Handmade Gazette artists want to know what I’m looking for in a photo, and as an artist myself I receive lots of questions about how I achieve the level of quality I strive for in my own product photos. It’s a tricky issue – I don’t think anyone enjoys product photography. In fact, I think it’s important to take a moment to release you of any guilt you may be feeling on the subject. So, repeat after me:

The fact that I can’t seem to get a good product photo to save my life does not in any way make me a bad artist.

So there.

Feel better? Good. Now, let’s talk about how you can take a good product photo, and even learn to enjoy the process! There’s lots of info to cover here, so we’re going to do it in bits and pieces. Today, we tackle the most important factor:

Origami: I made an Origami mobile and now I totally get why babies are so mesmerized by those things.

Seriously. They’re hypnotizing! I laid down on the floor underneath the one I’d made in order to snap a few photos, and I think I ended up being stuck down there for an hour.

Here’s what happened: Some good friends of mine (who happen to have a great foodie blog of their own, by the way) are expecting a new addition to their family in a few weeks, so the hubby and I decided to throw them a baby shower.

Well, more accurately, I decided to throw them a baby shower and the hubby suddenly found a lot of new items on his to-do list.