e-commerce product photography

Beginner’s Guide: E-commerce Product Photography

How to do e-commerce Product Photography? Here is the list of necessary photography equipment & few tips to improve your e-commerce product photography.

Video Transcript

Hello, all welcome to my youtube channel Thejigsaw. My name is Hari Prasath. Today I am going to show you how to shoot a product for an e-commerce..so lets we start.

Setting Up The Background & Product

Here I have a camera Canon 6D Mark II. Its a good camera for an e-commerce photo shoot. And I have a Elinchrom Frx-400 light. .today we are going to shoot the iron box.  I have kept the background colour grey because it will help me in post-production since the product colour is white. Now place the iron box in the center of the table. We will focus on the iron box.

Light settings

Now I will set up the light, keep the key light 1st in 45 degree and the second light is called fill light.it is showing 5.0 flash units, we have to increase three stops more 5.3 flash units. Same settings for another light.

Camera Settings

These are the basic settings for e-commerce product photography.

  • Shutter Speed – 1/125
  • Aperture – F14
  • ISO – constant 100

  • Image Quality – raw & jpeg (it is for editing)

  • White balance – Custom White Balance.

Now we are ready to shoot.

(Without thermocol)

  • Shutter Speed – 1/125
  • Aperture – F16
  • ISO – constant 100

The picture is good, but the reflection of light is coming on the product so to avoid this, we will use the thermocol.

(With thermocol)

  • Shutter Speed – 1/125
  • Aperture – F10
  • ISO – constant 100

Before & After Iron Box Image

Now I will take some pictures from a different angle. The first angle will be a normal angle and the second angle will be 45 degree. Same as before we will use thermocol to avoid the light reflection. The perfect shot!

(Without thermocol)

  • Shutter Speed – 1/125
  • Aperture – F16
  • ISO – constant 100

(With thermocol)

  • Shutter Speed – 1/125
  • Aperture – F14
  • ISO – constant 100

After Editing

So, how was your experience guys? Today we have learned how to shoot an iron box for e-commerce. Don’t forget to like and share, if you have any questions. Please leave it in the comments below. For more videos don’t forget to subscribe to our channel.

Thank you.