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Product Photographer: eBay & Etsy Product Photography Course

teacher avatar Sergey Kasimov, Entrepreneur, Photographer and Teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome to your Class

      2:21

    • 2.

      Picking a Camera

      4:11

    • 3.

      Professional Photo Setup

      6:16

    • 4.

      Scene Photo Shoot

      7:53

    • 5.

      External Lights

      2:06

    • 6.

      iPhone: Taking Pictures

      10:28

    • 7.

      Secrets of Taking Pictures

      4:52

    • 8.

      Techniques & Style

      6:17

    • 9.

      Adjusting Aperture

      3:29

    • 10.

      Depth Perception

      4:04

    • 11.

      Taking Etsy Pictures

      11:10

    • 12.

      Etsy Photography

      6:30

    • 13.

      Smart Phone Photography

      7:38

    • 14.

      Etsy Photo Examples

      5:14

    • 15.

      Etsy Shop Pictures

      7:42

    • 16.

      eBay Photography

      6:03

    • 17.

      iPhone: Photo Capabilities

      8:54

    • 18.

      eBay Photo Examples

      4:55

    • 19.

      Simple Editing

      11:38

    • 20.

      Advanced Editing

      16:23

    • 21.

      Background & Setup

      3:20

    • 22.

      White Background Photos

      16:41

    • 23.

      Bigger Objects Photos

      9:47

    • 24.

      External Lights

      5:02

    • 25.

      External Lights II

      2:59

    • 26.

      Using Props

      4:04

    • 27.

      Conclusion

      0:34

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Product Photographer: eBay & Etsy Product Photography Course

Welcome to the ultimate product photography course where you will learn how to take stunning photos that will elevate your products and boost your business to new heights. As a professional photographer with years of experience, I have designed this course with the intention of providing you with all the knowledge, skills, and tools you need to start taking professional photos with simple gear.

In this course, you will discover the best equipment to use, how to create amazing product photography, and how to launch your own business on platforms like eBay, Etsy, and Fiverr. I believe that by taking this course, you will be able to tap into a world of potential and opportunities to succeed.

Whether you are a beginner or an intermediate photographer, this class is for you. I will teach you how to take photos that will not only showcase your products but also make them stand out in the marketplace. You will learn the importance of presentation, lighting, props, and equipment to make your products shine.

As a professional photographer, I understand the value of editing and post-processing. Therefore, I will teach you how to edit your photos like a pro, using the right tools to make your products look their best.

I have put my heart and soul into this course, and I am confident that by the end of it, you will be able to take professional product photography and launch your own business. So, if you are looking to take your product photography to the next level and beyond, this course is for you. Join me on this journey, and let's make your product photography dreams a reality. 

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1. Welcome to your Class: Hello and welcome to my exciting new class, pilot photography, how to become an amazing product photographer on Etsy, on eBay, and how to make money with it on Fiverr. My name is Sylvia kids and I teach other people how to make money online. The first business I will get to is taking pictures and make your money with that. In this course, we're gonna be focusing on economies, product photography, how to take pictures with your DSLR or mirrorless camera or your actual smartphone, you need either one of those in order to get started with this class. Everybody has a smartphone or any kind of font that you can use. So just having a phone is good enough for you to enroll in this course. Having DSLR or mirrorless camera. Maybe this is the justification you've been waiting for to buy one of those. This course is going to be focused to hand one, how to go ahead and take amazing pictures on eBay and on Etsy, you can make additional income. Second part is how to make money on fiber. Well, you can start your own DSL business of photography, where you're gonna be selling online pictures and making money with that o of going online services. You can sell your pictures on Etsy as digital income. All you can go ahead and make money on firewall, but it's selling your online service such as photography. Regardless of what you choose to do, this class is for you, especially if you want to master photography, takes amazing pictures. And the one how to market yourself as a photographer in an exciting and blend your business. If you think this is the course for you and check with your heel, go ahead and enroll in this class. In this class we are going to be loading a lot of cool and interesting things, especially how to take amazing pictures. And we'll learn more about product photography. I can't wait to get started in this brand new class that I have created just for you all today and start running right now. Over 40 hours are exceptional and high-quality content is included in this course. 2. Picking a Camera: What camera do you actually need to take amazing pictures? Well, no, this is not needed anymore. In fact, it used to be, well, you need a professional resume in order to take amazing pictures. But right now, if you need specialized equipment and to take amazing pictures, you still might be able need something like this with a flash and everything else to it, which costs thousands of dollars of equipment and everything else. Especially the macro lens, which is not this one. This is the towel zoom lens, which also could be used for macro photography. But this is the logo, a sensor, or even needed to take amazing pictures. There's a few cameras out there that you can use. Gopro is not one of those. One of those cameras is the Karen Miller, whereas cameras mirrorless doesn't have a Miller in here. And it actually means you can see the size difference with a sensor camera, with a mirror, and one without. It is much simpler and small as well. This can do almost the same thing that the big camera can. The question is, do you really need the professional ESOL for part of photography? Know, you could totally get away with something like this to M6, there was also the M 50 and those other equivalent to this in Sony and Nikon as well. But do I use something like this? I myself don't actually use this specific camera. I use the G7 x, which is almost the same as this one. It's also middlewares, but it doesn't have the interchangeable and store it. Why? Because it's more convenient, it's more easy. And 90% plus of all my pictures are done on that specific camera because it is just something that easier to take out and use waltzes, this one, you have to interchange, find the wines is the most sophisticated. It is. The more time it takes to set up and get the job done. So that's why I don't use a user. Which one do I recommend for you to use? Usually it is whatever camera you can budget. Whatever camera you can actually take the money and spend on it is the right camera for you to get. The more expensive the camera, it is better if you get something like this. You can always replace the lenses. Those are probably one of the best cameras for you to get because you can take out the lens itself and you can easily upgrade or downgrade everything else in here. Really, the body is when you bought once the lenses could be interchangeable and what time you can get more and more lenses for your specialties walk, especially a macro lens which is fairly essential. What they can, those costs are pictures. If you actually need to do that. In most cases, actually, what you can do is use something like this, which is an iPhone or an equivalent smartphone form galaxy or Android. Now an iPhone, the one l command for you to get is the 12th or the PTO team. In fact, if you get the minimum one, that voice difference makes it really a no Bueno. The 12th is actually the better deal slightly, but they told Team 450 box you get the same form. But the camera is so much better. So you actually should get the total team, in my opinion. The pictures you can take with something like this is amazing. So you have to have a foreign right now to be in today's society. Just get the best iPhone or the best multiple you can afford. And you can use that instead. So it's going to save your money. And it's going to take those amazing pictures you have always wanted to take. 3. Professional Photo Setup: So the entire setup is over here. You can see how I put everything in position. Specifically, you can see this weighting kid. So the kit itself is what they actually use heal, it's from the womb cube and it has a diffuser. It also has filled dose we can use. So instead of working with the software, well, you have to go ahead and process every single image. And specifically if you want to process videos, which is much more complicated, this will do it for you. And it's all magnetic. You can put them right on. And then it's going to make it different shade of light, which is really cool. So I put this right here. This is the position I put this in. And you can see the camera is also put in as well. They'll both sporting a tripod. So after you put them in, and next thing you have to do is position it. And what I like about those tripods that you can go ahead and easily position the camera. And it has to be watercolor when you take the picture. The second thing is having this white sauce now, those bigger wide sources that I use specifically, I use the biggest one on the top, and I use another big one on this side. This is directly working with specific quiet in a way and it's not going to be behind the camera. And yeah, if you put it like this and you take a picture, obviously it's gonna be with their actual camera. And the camera can see it, which is not what we wanted it to be. Over here. It's much better because it's white. White from this side. And it actually not shining right in the land. You want to avoid direct shining into the lens put into it. So from this side is probably the best for you to do is you can see here the background is slanted over here, and that gives it the interesting work. And we don't have a cutoff edge, which you can see right here, this edge you want to avoid. And that's why we don't have it here and it looks really nice and professional. So now we're going to be using the actual iPhone to take pictures. And this is totally different. So I did shout this up and it is ready to go. We also have over here this white diffuser as well. So for the tribe, but they do suggest one that is flexible. So you can go ahead and use it in order for you to put things on it. So this specific tripod as wags and has something on the top that you can modify and use it for the whites. Once you've gone ahead and put this on, you want to put this directly in the location, you want to use it, then you're gonna be turning this on and putting it on. So let's go ahead and do this. Once you set it up in a direction it has to go. You put this on by toning it on. So I have it on right now. And this one, the good thing about this specific white, and this is why we are awake it, you can see how powerful it gets as I keep on pressing on it. And the light can get super powerful. But I only need this much power when I go ahead and do the pictures. Because e.g. right here, you can see much this white actually makes a difference. Let's turn it on. And if it is too much, is just going to really do too much to the picture. So you want to move it around. And this is why we have the tripod, is you can see with different direction, we're getting different kinds of whites for our subject. And on this side they think it looks better. Once we have the white, we want those no shade. You can see the shade sometimes on this side and now we think we want to get rid of the shade. And when it looks pretty good way for you to get exactly the picture that you want when you have the team might hear all set up. So make sure falls to find exactly how you want to make sure it is done with the white itself, not having all those shades on this side. The most important thing here is to get rid of the shades. So toning on at total right now. And this is much more better than the previous three. And keep on upping the white switch to its max power. You're trying to eliminate all the shade from every single side if it is possible. And of course, you're working at this on the phone and sometimes we have to go back. And of course, any more white in the background, although this seems like this is a lot of white on the formula looks a little bit more darker as you can see on here. But it doesn't mean it's going to come out this dow, what you're going to be doing is going to go into Photoshop weight on. And you might actually have to brighten this up even more in case you need to. Sometimes you have to post on the extra features on the phone and to go forward to make sure everything is exactly how it's supposed to be for. Sometimes this could be sad for a little bit less resolution than it should. So going through the different teams you like, we can go to the photo team natural right here. And we can go into different features that we can hear, stage wide, and so on. Once you find the correct one that you will like, it's going to help it out with brightening and making it much more doubt coal. In case you actually need to moving into idle, it's going to become much more Biden wants you to take a picture, as you can see, that this is definitely way more than you should. But this is going to get us the best possible image, exactly what we want. So we having all the whites walking for us like this one right here, the side, the big one, and the huge one. It is a rather wide to get the perfect image. 4. Scene Photo Shoot: Taking pictures for Etsy or eBay, you have to first set the synapse. So this is the stuff that I sell mostly in my Etsy shop. Those are called diagnose magnets. And we also have here the pause, really interesting kind of things. Now, one thing I like to do is to have an artistic picture of this stuff that I have. And this could be like for your banner or just in general a picture. So what you wanna do here, make sure you put your phone in the fall of this. Now those two ways for you to take pictures. One is from far away, and two is caused by. Now. If you make it very close to it, you can see, you can zoom out and then try to take a picture. My favorite is to go ahead and go with the higher up. And then you're going to be zooming in just a little bit. So it gives it more of an interesting perspective to the picture and it makes it so much better working as well. Now after you go ahead and frame your shot, next thing you want to actually do here. There is this button right here on this side. You want to post on here. Just way now, as you press on here, there's this whole menu that shows up. This is on the iPhone, but you can do this on any phone your way. Now, one thing that newbies sometimes do you see your hands can easily go in here. It's going to mess up the shot, so make sure you don't accidentally cover the glans. Next, we want to go into this thing that has a plus L minus over here. What it does, it either brightens up the picture or makes it more dark. You want to brighten this up. And you can do this with any phone you awake. After you brighten this up, you're going to be moving world. This looks really good and start snapping pictures. Now, the key for you to get a lot of good pictures is to take many pictures, which taking one or two pictures, you are not going to get really good pictures. You want to also move the phone around. So just having it from the top is just one way to see things. Moving it from the side. You get a different whole other perspective as well. And you snap from that too. So one thing is, dont just go ahead and take a few pictures, take as many as you can as you need. You can always delete this weight on. And that's really important. So always on taking more pictures than was it. Make sure it's all stationed really well, is you're going to be doing it. So over here we have a seam here. And now we're picking whichever one you want to use. Stationing ethmoidal, putting it next to it and snapping. And then you're going to be moving to a different kind of subject. It's still going to be using. But I'd like to do is having more than one subject at once. It puts more variety and better perspective to the image. Another thing you wanna do is to have some kind of a light source to write it out. One thing you can use is an actual flashlight. You see the font does have some flash, but you want to have a different kind of way that is getting diffused. And here is the refusal cap that they use for it. Now, if you move it all the way to the top, you will see the difference. Zhe It's more doubt now. But when you turn this on with the diffuser, it makes it more light up. And that's exactly what you want. You want waiting to be more wired up in a special way. And it makes it more interesting and more appealing. Make sure you put it in a way that everything looks much better. So now the seeds over here is less evident and it will look so much better. Now when you want to be taking the picture, it's going to come out so much better working as well. You can do the same thing here. So we're going to post it up, flame it the way we want. And now we're using the row of towards when we're gonna be taking the picture here, putting this right on the edge. So it's more interesting. And the wolf towards means you're using one-third of the screen to capture the actual image. And the West is gonna be a little bit empty. Just going to make it more interesting. Next thing you wanna do is to take a picture of it, but we want to take it with this side, just like this. So here is the clef and we're moving it down so we get more of a 3D effect. A lot of times as a newbie, you have some distractions on this side. And the fourth will actually pick up on that. You don't want that to happen. The way. Focus. Now, when you're gonna be doing this one thing that smart ones that we're good. If you keep on pressing on it. It has the eighth AF lock on box into the image. It makes it even more better working and focuses it in. And that's when you snap the picture. And you want to keep doing it with different perspectives. Now you can use this as its own tripod by putting our island of row and just holding it like this. Snapping a picture when they use your fingers to zoom in and out, snapped a picture as well. You can zoom in. Same method to now make sure you press on. When you do this on the subject you take a picture of it, focuses on it, and just hold it. Then you want to take the image just to wait. After you go ahead and take a bunch of images, the next thing you wanna do here is to check out how it came out. False thing I suggest for you to do is to zoom super n and see if it's blurry or not. This specific picture came out, boy, that's not good. You have to redo it. They go get this one over here. This one is actually where autistic you can see it has the things on this side. Usually that's not a good thing. But the way it came out, it just came out with a really nice looking alike, the perspective in here. Here's another one. This one is really good as well. The perspective from this side, as you can see, you have to crop them to get a better image. And sometimes you can just screenshot the actual picture and take the screenshot. Now you are actually doing all the work for yourself as you're moving forward. And so we're viewing the pictures is essential because you can see what things you need to do and what things felt like this one is a failure. As soon as you see something that's not good, you just go ahead and delete it so you can take more pictures and go back venture. You have all the really good images altogether of the stuff that you took a picture of. You can see here the pyramids that I took and how they work, work. And you go for it altogether. 5. External Lights: One of my favorite ways to work with weight is actually an LED strip for about $20. It's not too expensive and yet it gives you the best editor facts and also makes it amazing. So if this one, what I liked the most first of all, is gives you a huge amount of white. And it gives you a lot more effect and it's already kind of diffuse. So that's good. So you can do either or sideways from one side. You can do from the other side in case you need to All the best one is all the way from the top, as you can see over here. It makes it real quick and actual sunlight is up the top. Because when you turn it off, it kinda works too dark. Right now it looks just about right. And that's what you want. So after you've figured out exactly the place you want to station, the white, the next step for you is to start taking pictures. So pretty much get your camera all lined up exactly where you want it to be. Next, you want to go ahead and push this button right here and move the plus and minus, plus and minus. On this side, we're going to be pressing on this and expose it as much as we can, as you can see the whites. Now, if the pyramid is much more yellow in blight, that's what you want to actually distinct to do. Then is you wind it up the way you want it to line up. If we move it away from you in case you need to or to zoom out. Zoom out. So everything is in the picture. Now it's ready to go ahead and start snapping the images from different directions and locations. So you want to do it not only one area, but for many different areas in keeps snapping pictures. Because just don't know which one is going to come out the best. You have to keep on snapping. 6. iPhone: Taking Pictures: So you're probably got your iPhone and now you want to know how to take pictures with this. And there was a lot of tutorials out there, but I wanted to make a very good one to show you how you can use the best features of your phone and how to do it. The first thing you want to actually do is to know what your camera is at. Now, how do people have this problem? Because they don't like where is the camera and how do I use it? So pretty much you go skip food is until you find it. Here it is. This is not the correct way, which you want to do is move it all the way in here. To do this. It's pretty simple for you to do. You have to do is to pass on the camera. And then when you press on it, you just keep holding it. Or if you hold it, you want to wait until it says Hold screen. Let's do it again. You hold it in your person edit screen, or you just just keep on holding it in, it gets there. The next thing you'll have to do, just drag it around. You can drag it in every location, but I primarily one and drag it right in here. Now, you have your camera right there. It's much more easy for you to use and press the button to let this go. In other locations where you have the camera is if you drag it onto the bottom, move it like this, your screen on the bottom. We have the camera right in here. Let's go x is the camera. In the camera a bunch of different features for us to actually use here. The first one is it gives us the video feature. You also have a different options here, such a slow motion time-lapse. Be given. Photo, Portrait, panoramic. The tutorial, we'll just cover the photo in the portrait. In a photo, you definitely want to have something to take pictures of. What they do suggest for you to have is interesting working background that is going to be included with it as well. You can see here we have the background and now we have the item here. Once you look at this, you want to make sure it's not blowing in the picture. You also want to use your finger on this. Not only eat writes up this earlier more, it also focuses on what you want to take a picture of. Sometimes if you get too close, it gets to blowing. You want to take it away. And then one thing that you want to make sure you don't accidentally just sick of just a bit. You're gonna be as steady as you can when you take the picture to avoid camera shake. So let's take the picture. Now. Don't go ahead and just take one picture, especially if it's something you really want to capture memory off. I'm going to take multiple pictures of the same image, especially if you really like the image, because sometimes one of them doesn't come out as well as it should. Go ahead and take multiple pictures. The point angles, well, different ways to, because you just never know which one comes the best. Now, in terms of perspective, you're very far away. Oh, very close. It changes the perspective of the nodes, but there is another way for you to do this. In fact, you can zoom out like this, just zooming out, putting it farther away. And zoom in using two fingers where you actually zooming into the image itself and then take a picture, what it does. It changes the perspective, the actual product. It makes it look so much different. Keep this in mind. Also on the top here. You see right now, this is what the camera is at. Don't accidentally just put your finger over part of it because you're going to mess up the picture. Another tip for you, right here. You have this button here. What it does, it's live view. You press on this. It is wherever us. Now what it actually does is it actually takes a capsule over the image before you take the picture. Which means every few seconds it's actually taking a picture of the image all the time. Not only it drains your battery, it slows it down. One of the good things about this, it will capture the moment before it actually happens when you press on it. Guess what few seconds of it was already captured before you even press on this button. This is good for my family, steam parks eventually in sport photography. In most situations, I would actually suggest for you to turn this off, especially if you're sending it to a friend. They don't have a foreign. Another option for you is this button right here. Flashes on. Now it would take it, but that doesn't always activate. Alternative is on. It doesn't mean it's going to walk right now. But it doesn't turn on. Why is that? Because it sees there is no reason for it to be on. There is no reason. This is just something that this iPhone doesn't do. It doesn't force the place to turn on when it actually suits. So keep this in mind just because you told on the finance doesn't mean it's going to go on. Personal with this button right here, you get a bunch of different options for you to use. One is the flash. Right now it was set to auto. Auto mode would not actually work. You want to have all mode instead. So now it is on mode. Now when you print so that it actually works. Now it has a Whiting button right here, which means it's always on. Next one right here is the right view. Right now it is off. You can put it on auto, so it actually detects and decides when it should be on and it should be off. This is actually the smaller tricks for you to use. Then when you take it, it decides to do Y view or auto mode combined. This is the best of both worlds all at once. Now we have different square ratios over here for free and 16 to nine for the free is the most common one. The time of hue, which actually goes between three to ten seconds. And the time off. This button right here is the different photos, original, vivid in different kinds of filters for us to use. We just pick the one, like snap the image. There we go. Those are all the basic coatings that is a variable for years. You can see I have the grid that's also turned on. You can do that as well. Here. You have another option here for us. This button right down, which actually gives us the different core codes that is available. This is all the options that gets you from the bottom over here. Now, there is another mode here for us. It's the portrait mode. Portrait mode, it actually detects if there was a person. Also, it gives you the natural light. And you can go scroll through this. Change. The kind of light you actually like. Cool is that now the Facebook oxygen right here where you can show it is bottleneck. Connect to make this darker bridle as well here. The white aperture mode. Now, if you want to get into the advanced features of this gamma, what do you have to do next? Is go all the way to the settings, score food is, and move until you get to the cameras section. Relates personally camera. Now, we have other options for us to use such as activating the grip, grid, preserve settings, camera mode, my photo, and all other kinds of cool features for us to actually you. Thank you so much for watching this. I hope you learned something new and if you did please subscribe, see you in another video. The kickback. It all. 7. Secrets of Taking Pictures: Secrets of taking amazing pictures. It all starts with a camera. The full Secret, get a good camera for yourself. Next secret. Move their landscape or can't actually take pictures. Now, the biggest secret folio. And the reason why having a camera is so important is that you can make a lot of different adjustments over here, different modes, different exposures, settings. Also a pop-up flash, something that you don't have. With a camera phone. You can even bounce the flash the ceiling, or use it at all. You can even put in a professional camera and external flash over here, which is going to be much bigger and give you a lot more powerful things that you can do that you can actually do with Go form. As at reasons why is that it holds more manually, it is portable. And the reason why they make those cameras is it's built specifically for taking pictures. Now, if yours are the things that they do suggest for you to do, to get this amazing picture is the most important thing. Critic. Yes. You want to be able to get quitters size. In fact, you don't know if you're a great photographer until people start telling you that you don't do actually grade walk. Yeah. It sounds like something that, Hey, who wants to get criticized in photography? I do. I actually do. Why is that? I want to know the time not doing something right? When people criticize my mock, the more I get and I figured out that I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And I look at my work all the time, we examine it and see if I can do any better job at this. Over the time you're going to be evolving your subject, let me get better. You don't get good until you can criticize yourself, which is the biggest secret out there. Self-criticism is essential for you. The only way you can criticize your own work is by looking at other people's work and comparing it. One of the biggest secrets for you to become a great photographer is to find somebody who has this same style. Not only that, when you go ahead and get different pictures online, you see what kind of style they have, what kind of pictures they take, what kind of angle that they focus on. And then you're going to replicate and do the same thing for your own walk. And you can see how they do bad photography and good photography. Warning from ISIL mistakes is essential for you to take amazing pictures. Also about vision and the angle or photography division comes from the inside. When they take pictures before that I have a vision, how I want my walk to be exactly. Then I put everything, all the props over though. I take the pictures and then I make the vision come true. After I make the vision come true, it is time to examine the pictures and see how good they are or how bad they are. One of the biggest secrets out there is to take a lot of pictures. Some of the best photographers stick hundreds of x two pictures, then they delete all the bad ones. They only keep the best woke to showcase and to show to you what other people think that you have to take this amazing pictures. Always take amazing pictures. That is not the case. The pictures you take, the more likely you're gonna be making mistakes. Why is that? Because you take pictures and sometimes that specific picture you took. It only last a few seconds. But it was so amazing. And yet you could have missed the whole entire opportunity. Because when you took this picture, you only spent and you passed on the shadow button once. And there was no excuse for you to do this anymore with a digital camera. It doesn't cost you money to take a hundreds of pictures. I don't suggest hundreds because you have to go for them and delete are the bad ones. But they do suggest you take a few of them just in case that one specifically a good mixture came not as good as it should have been. Taking many pictures is one of the keys for you to be successful. And all those other steps that the outline in this lecture. And if you have not figured it out and you haven't take notes on this video. Go ahead. If you've watched it once again and take notes. 8. Techniques & Style: In this video, I'm gonna be talking about techniques and style, how you can utilize swaps, weights, and everything else to get some of the best pictures for you. Force-field Tony on the external white and you can see how brightened up everything is. And the more whites, the better, because you don't have the shade. That's going to be on this side of any of those props. And everything else you'll be using. You can see the sandbox over here. This is send inside. We have the things we're going to be taken pictures of. And we can see the difference when we turn this off. And it's not as bright. This just weird to isis and whites everything up. But I like to do, I like to use natural light as much as possible. Waltzes going ahead and editing everything, all by myself in Photoshop or any software after that. This is best for you to get the images you want right away. So we have another one over here. We have the club. You can use folders. Anthony percent box thing folded. The first thing that you have to do before you go into the white is the technique itself. So you want to set this to work in a certain way. Having too much stuff in here, playing all the same time, it's not a good second of all, when we are going to be taking the pictures, you're probably going to be zooming in in a certain way so we can get just a sand in here and nothing else is going to be included. And of course, this is just something to make it more interesting for the visual eye. And then we're going to be selling those things right here. This is not for sale. When we do something like this, the technique is essential before we do everything else. Want to make sure this just looks good for the eye. Next thing we want to do is to experiment with the whites. When we have the pumps, we have the wide scale, so we can do a specific flashlight. This one is really good white because it's shines the WACC, the at an object. And it gives us like a spotlight effect. Waltzes the one that whites up everything. This is a Spotlight. Instead, you have to figure out what kind of lighting you want to use folders. Now, this has advantages and disadvantages. Advantages is I don't have to actually hold it when they need to write this. I just pick the location forward, position it the way I wanted angel Saliba DO instead. The downside of this is that once you put this in here, sometimes needed on the camera. So for that, you actually have a special fide. Modify the ions. This is the super macro with lights built right in here so we can turn the lights on. You can see the white bit here. And now it's shines exactly on this object. It doesn't give you as much white. But if it is fairly macro and very small, gonna give you amazing pictures. You can see how much zoom. This actually gives Woese's Zoom. So this has a super zoom macro capacity that you don't actually get anywhere else. Unfortunately, it is a little bit blurry. Now you might say, why is this bully, at least for that? It's sometimes done something like that. Super Mac or you have to actually get very close to the actual object for it not to be boys. So this is extreme, me, super Mac, or the more you get close to the object or less, boy, it actually gets, which is really interesting. You can take amazing pictures with this and super up-close that you can't do anything else. So if you want really specific details like that, it can do with this special lens. This is why people vote over the professionals to get things done. Because you can't do something like that. Will their cell phone and you don't have the capacity. You don't have the background, you don't have everything to be done for it. But in case you want to do this by yourself, you may have to do the super zoom. You have to use software to zoom in. And what you have to make sure that you have all the elements right here, having the whites and everything else encoded. And specifically you need a small tripod units, some kind of a white system. It could be a flashlight, It could be anything else for that matter. Once you set how weeding out, you want to go ahead and start taking pictures. Much as said this on the picture mode, like to use the programming mode. You turn this on and you start to go and take pictures. And you take many pictures as many as possible. Now, I don't have the film inside the camera, so I can't actually do this. But when you take pictures, you want to make sure you use different kinds of angles. When you're gonna be doing this. You specifically want to do it from the top, from the side, the bottom, you want to use every kind of direction. Remember when you're doing this, the camera is the one that's going to be moving, not the pumps themselves. The only position is to wait, supposed to look like job wife. Now, just go ahead and take the pictures and get this done. Once you're done with the pictures, you go ahead and reposition the plops in a different way. So we are taking one of the pumps out. You're leaving the stuff you want and the opposition you exactly how we want and then you're taking the pictures once again. 9. Adjusting Aperture: The aperture mode picture session, we are going to be using the farmhouse scenario over here. So I built a bunch of farmhouse over here. And specifically, the whole focus is going to be on the dog house, outhouse that I created for it. How you can take amazing pictures using a background with aperture mode on either your iPhone or an actual camera. What you want to do is to get an image that works very well with whatever kind of picture you're gonna be taken. Now, if you do zoom out a lot out of it, you can see the aperture mode doesn't work as well because the track though is in the picture too. And everything else. What you wanna do is to go straight up to the actual image and get very close to it. Next step you want to do is to tilt up just a little bit up. And this is, well, it comes very handy to have something in the background. So in this specific case, we actually have their farmhouse. And it looks good. Now with this. Now, there was a little bit of distraction with detract or on this side. So if we remove the actual tractor, it makes the picture even battle, as you can see here. Now, the whole focus is on the outhouse. For the doggie. The background just looks really nice. So what you have to experiment with here, and remember you don't need to does take one shot here. You can take multiple shots when you do this because one of them is going to come out much better than the other. So what we are trying to do is to find where is the best possible image that's going to come from. And in this specific case, getting very close to the outhouse and going down and tilting the camera is giving us the best possible view here. That gets us very good image with the whole background being very blurry. And that is using really good your aperture mode. Next thing you wanna do is not to have anything on this side that's showing like this pig on this side that is a little bit distracting. So be careful with that. And after you find the perfect pitch for the picture, now this title to start snapping a bunch of pictures because one of them is going to come out very good. Once you figure out what works well, you have to shift the actual background to the side and try to figure out which is the best kind of way to get the best possible image. So e.g. maybe like this is good, but now the pig is distracting from the dog. So let's put that away. Put this like this, and put the dog, a pig or a little bit in a battle view here. And you have to experiment with how you want to tilt this. Because one way, It's just doesn't look as attractive and interesting as another way. So you kinda have to keep on moving it. And I think vertical is probably the best possible way to get the image looking really good. And to make it the best looking one out of all of them. 10. Depth Perception: Depth perception photography, the key to do this correctly is to have a very large object in the background. And then you have a small objects such as this that you're going to be taking pictures off. Furthermore, what you have to actually do is to have something even small that you can use is a perception of depth. One way for you to do this is to increase the size of the actual subject you take pictures of by station it closer to the camera, as you can see the course. So it is to the camera. The small this object gets right here. This one is too large, so it's not going to work as good. What you have to have is an object that's very far away in the background. You want to station at as far as possible. And we have an object that's fairly close by. So when we take a picture, it looks like the subject is huge. The actual mini figure. Where else? The background image, as you can see, it becomes more blurry. But this mini figure looks to be huge in the scale. And the more you bring this forward, the big 0, the mini fig or actually gets small. This specific objects in the background gets as well. So you can get really interesting shots here just by positioning the actual mini figure with the background. So you have to really find a balance of the two to make sure this looks really authentic and really good. Of course, you're going to be focusing on the actual mini figure and not on the background. And it's going to make it look even more realistic. So we are having the pyramids in the back and the mini figure in that font is one way to do it. Another way is to zoom in. And that's going to make the perception of depth even more larger than life. And now, after you go ahead and create the scene, it's time for you to snap a few pictures to make it even more realistic. And one such key when you're doing this is to co-active focus on the background and on a forward as well. So when I press on the actual mini figure, you can see the background gets totally blown away. When I pressed on their pyramids. The pyramids get really in focus, but the background really messes up the actual mini figure. Now you can definitely get both in one shot by changing the aperture. But to make it more interesting and better depth perception, we're going to focus on the actual mini figure. Instead. This way, it makes everything else in the background blurry and it makes it look even more realistic in the back. So this is definitely what you want to actually do. And you have to walk your way to figure out how it looks like. We will. Well, as you can see, this looks even more realistic from this viewpoint. Once you get a very good viewpoint and how you want it, it to be set up. Make sure the background in the back is also arranged correctly. That's when you'd go ahead and get started shooting the pictures. Having different scenes is also very important. So over here you can see the depth perception doesn't work as well because the mini figure is very close to the actual subject that you're gonna be taken pictures of. It now, it looks like they're very similar in size and it doesn't look as realistic. So definitely by moving this farther away and as close to the camera as possible, the perception gets so much better and the picture looks more realistic. 11. Taking Etsy Pictures: So in this swiped children, we're gonna be talking about Etsy product photography. And over here we have the pilot, but it is sold in my shop. In fact, I don't suggest for you to take pictures or when you want you want to have a bunch of those products at once that you'll be thinking about taking a picture of. Because you're gonna be taking multiple shots orbit. Instead of just taking a few things you need to know when you're getting started with fancy in product photography. That Falstaff, the place you're gonna be taking pictures off. We didn't have to be all white, the whole background. Next thing, we have to have some wait for us to use. I have a mobile station here. It's kind of cool. Because when you turn this on, you can have different steams are why this is a rather actual white here. Taking this out, we have the white one. They can put something like this. See, this is pretty cool by the way. Different ways for you to have whites for the pictures. What you're trying to do is to wait up the area. So there was no she'd over here or just position it in a way there was no shade. Or of course use a different kind of steroid. So this is good. But sometimes it doesn't work quite. One of the most essential things when you do and take pictures, you want to have a tripod you to use. We're using the tripod. You can position this exactly how you want this too. So the way it goes in the direction, that's correct. So all the shade gets a women eat it when you're gonna be taking the picture. If you need more aid to just press on it, it gives you more brightness. This is one tool that I like to use. You can use it as an LED one which is different. Diff, one kind of wife's give you different kinds of possibilities for you. You have to find which one works the best for you to fill up all the different shades that you get here. After you find the best way for you to get the right, Since next step is for you to take pictures. We need a camera for that. And we have a small camera here, which we can be using. Now, you have to figure out which camera is best for. You can even use an iPhone. The professional cameras, because they give me one of the different things you'll be able to view finder. You have different settings that we can do. Zoom in and zoom out and they'll need for product photography. Of course, should definitely have the tripod. Position this in a way you want this to. Once you put this in, I'm gonna be tripoding it and you wouldn't be leaving it down. And then you can have the whites giving the white overdose in a different direction. Then you can take pictures being at stabilized. Now for those of you who like to use the form, it's also a possibility. Sometimes the forum, you will have to do more edits for that. Some of the phones such as the door, very good job. Though I love things. I am not a proponent of using flash photography, especially on the form, because it's sometimes messes up the picture. You can see how dark they actually looks like. Definitely need the white source, which is essential and important for you to use. Having whites. Having tripod is important. Now, next thing I also suggest for you to do is to have the pump, which we used before. Having a pop is also essential for photography because you're going to be positioning the pilot on the job and you're gonna be taking pictures is going to give a lot more taste to it. And you can definitely check out some of those things that they sell and the photography that I do for my products in my Etsy shop as well. This is what we solved, these kind of things. They have created an experimental shop just to show you how well it actually does. So over here you can see I'm positioning it in a way. I want the picture to actually be forced. You have division. You want to put the product into pop and you take the picture. That's the next thing we're gonna be doing. Much putting in a foreign position, you get where you want this to be. Focusing on it in taking the picture. And then you're going to be zooming out more and taking another picture. I'm gonna be taking one from this side as well. As you're done with that. You have to take multiple pictures because you don't know which one is going to work best. If you see dark heel using debt whites. Putting the camera once again, using the following, snapping one very close to the object, farther away. And this is for ads. Essentially I have a photo away picture. So it will fit as a thumbnail. If you don't like to use the phone or you want to use something more professional. You can use the camera on doing the same exact thing with the camera itself. And now of course, this comes out much margin better than taking the picture in another situation, I want you to take a picture, meaning pictures when I have many different angles. And to keep taking it, it is essential for you to do this because some of them are not gonna come as guilt is you want them to come out. When you're done with that. You're putting, sometimes you want to have multiple products gonna be sounds. You'll have a few of them over here. Position you feminist floating away. So it looks interesting. You can see sometimes the wafer have to be positioned in a different way. We don't have any of those things. We can talk. Not good. There was too much right here. This please just let me get to overall brightness back a bit. So now we'll do his battle. Now we have a multiple creation kind of a wisdom of different products over here and I take the picture, take another picture. So on. Once you download is moving the prop once again back here, positioning one element. This one we're gonna be doing next is just making it a picture of this. Taking it. Sometimes it's gonna come up well, if it doesn't come up well, make sure you press on it so shoulder, the picture will be good. This one is, you can see that too much brightness, too much. If you see that there was actually something in here that once you change the plus and minus in here, I'm gonna be doing now. Makes it to see the plus and minus is adjusting it to blackness, making it dark, or making it much more bridle. You have to pick what you want and then take a picture of me awake this setting. And I love it on the camera. Good. And then I take the picture. It's up to you to decide which pictures wanted to take and how many of them. Keep them moving in different directions, in thicken the picture. Then be repositioning it in a different method. Doing the same exact thing. Of course, you're done. You're going to go ahead and take a walk. The actual screen and check what you did, what you did, and everything else. So you can tell if it comes out good and if it doesn't, and this one is not that good, keep on walking. Seeing the results. What you did. If it doesn't look good, that means you have to come back and take more pictures. And this one is bad. This is really blurry. It didn't come out. This one you can tell. Just the background was not good enough. It was just way too much white. And this white here, you can even see it because of that. That's actually a sense of for you to review their images on a camera afterwards. If it doesn't come out as good as you wanted to, come back. Focuses in and keep taking pictures. So we have a bunch of different pictures for us to use. And then you're done. And time for the next project. 12. Etsy Photography: Success in your ads is sharp, is highly dependent on the kind of pictures you actually are going to be taking. If your pictures on our professional enough, you're just not going to get the success you want and the sales that you actually need as well. Let's go ahead and take a look at some of my listings and figure out what kind of pictures you actually need in order to be successful, to sell on Etsy or even on eBay. The first one. And this one I usually like to use a prop. And it shows we have the actual pilot and a prop that is being used for it. The next one is the item itself close in, zoom into it. And then what they actually do is sometimes show the item with another one just like it and something else, just to illustrate the size difference for that one. Next picture is from an angle. I have to take yet formed a download. So you can see how it works from a different angle as well. More angles, different pictures, zoom-in, zoom-out altogether. Mixed picture, amazing. One important thing when you do Etsy product photography, you want to really zoom out. So the false picture you can see not only the product, it's also the thing that you're gonna be using their pop forward as well. This is just one example and have many different ones. To show you two. Let's take a look. Over here. We have another one that I'm using in a thing. This is one of the better examples to actually show you what they actually do. Here we use a prop to show the actual, illustrate the size of those products. We have the wall and we have, we'll dos products as an example. Another one, I'm showing the different sizes or combined of all the products, all of them in the best possible light as well. Not on your pictures is very essential and important. It is also important that you have very bright white for the pictures. It makes everything really white. And then your eye can see right into the actual image. When you're looking at it, you see the picture and then you see all the white on this side. And that's the way you're supposed to be doing it. Now of course, some people say, Hey, there is special rules, but sometimes it's good to break them. But in this specific case, it is not because if you do all back background, what happens is because most browsers or white, it actually does not look this good for the picture. Of course, you want to have a bright, sunny image. This is why Apple use all the time, white and bright whites. It makes people happy. It makes them more equity to please the porches. In this one, you can see over here how much detail v-hat of the actual product as well and the prop too. So there's a super zoom in for now one over here, I decided, instead of using all white background, I use actual sand to see how it actually looks like. And it came out really interesting as it is like a sheet of white in here. So do experimental different crops and different things in order to solve your product. Because what you really want to do is to make sure that people, when they walk in this, they're gonna say, Wow, this is amazing. I want to have something just like it. Over here. We don't use too many images, but we use their pop for the key chain with the actual Beilock. And we have the coffee on this side and some green and some would as well. This is another way we actually doing it. Another one to illustrate this size, we have the hand holding the actual pile up two. And over here, we have some fairly interesting background that has been used for this product. The more you have different backgrounds and different kinds of pictures and perhaps that you're using. The more interesting it makes when somebody goes in here and tries to porches the pilot over, he'll have a very interesting Thank you. We're from B, so waterlogged and we have a bunch of different hearts and the product is right in the middle. We have another interesting one night here as well. Your hand that's holding different size of hearts altogether. What I'm trying to illustrate into so people is different ways that despite architecture looks like and of course, us tweeting for them as well. The illustrative purposes you can see over here, we have a picture of the dog and the product right next to it. And we even have just a picture of the dog. It makes it more cute, interesting for the eye to see. When somebody goes over here, the score for all the products. And then when something catches their eyes, such as this one right here, we have the Christmas decor for the image. And this is a photoshopped or an in here. Of course we have other ones that though not Photoshop and we have an actual decor. And it makes it very interesting. Picture two, right here, you can see it how it's hanging on the Christmas tree. And I also went ahead and experimented of all black background. And the reason why usually I would not use back background because it just doesn't look good. But in this specific case, because the product itself is silver, it doesn't really come out as well with all white background you can see over here, it actually takes away some of the justice of the actual Beilock. And therefore, I tried to have all black background to see if this will make more justice for the product itself in I think it really did. So altogether, what do you want to do is to make as many different products as you can create and then use your imagination. Use different, perhaps use different settings and experiment with different backgrounds. So a cure and using different kinds of wood. And of course, taking the picture of carpools and far away and form different distances, we actually make it look a lot different. It's really up to you to decide what is the best possible way for you to illustrate and highlight your pilots with pilot photography. 13. Smart Phone Photography: Today's video is gonna be showing you how you can use props to take pictures. So we have a bunch of props here. We have the sand over here. The first thing you want to actually do, make sure that this entire thing here, let me BIPAP wanted to make sure that no wines on here, so just make sure it is leveled in using just sand for us to make sure you do this because it's going to work better in there image itself. Now of course, if you're going for the messy work, That's the different things you can do, the messy work as well. It's up to you to decide how you want this structure. Because it's gonna be a sandbox. Also have the selfish over here, which we're going to be arranging. Put a picture. You can see that this one stands out and that's not a good thing. When they have something that has the same colors. You don't want something to stand out like that unless it's part of the actual attraction itself. The other I'm going to be using that specific one. After you write the more up in a way you want it to work right? Next thing I'm gonna be doing is putting the actual picture of flops in the dog noses themselves. This is another way. This is a prognosis hasn't been called up over here, we see that this looks almost identical to an actual size of a prognosis if you're interested, now available at many gifts up. Your put them all in and you're ready for this to be a picture. Make sure everything is arranged in exactly. I wanted to. Next thing you're gonna be doing. It's getting the camera all set up and ready for the pictures. So we have to come over here. And V0, looking at how are we gonna be taking a picture, different kinds of angles. We can do this from the top, from the bottom, actually from this side, it's very good because we have the free dimensional look to this and having some kind of three-dimensional as good. You can also see the amateur mistake you the lenses right here. And if we put with my fingers so I ovoid is going to mess it up. And of course, yes, you can delete those. But you wouldn't get older pictures right? Right away. You don't want to make mistakes in them. Second thing, you want to be doing Etsy photography. You zoom out more than you have to. Because flat C, that's the way you take pictures for the force picture or for the thumbnail. Now, we wanted to take pictures from this side. Take a picture from the side. You want to take a picture from the top. I'm going to take a picture or from the bottom. And we kind of direction that is possible for us to do. After we take pictures of all of them. You want to remove them or just have one of them at any time ever, ever gonna be doing this same executive team for one of them. And we're gonna be taking pictures as well. Now, when you take the picture, what do you have to do? Just press on the actual item that you want to focus on. The camera itself, then auto focuses on it. And then that's when you take the picture, snap it in. Of course, after you snap it in, you press on it. The next thing we want to do is to zoom in and check it out. You can see that this actually comes out a little bit dark here. We have the right thing prog problem, which is we need a lot more white for this to come out too good. So those two ways for us to get the good white here. One is to use an external white. And two, is pretty much to use Photoshop and post edit the pictures, which is probably a better idea of when you're going to be using the forearm. You can see right here the way this picture was gonna go. Take a view in Hue. White counterparts are positioned, have weight in the background, the actual product. It's a little bit dark as well. More of the other ways to solve the darkness problem is to use one of the different colors. This one is much more bright, wants to use. Let's go ahead and pick a picture of this. One thing for us to do here, which we can do is to go into flash. Flash wouldn't be him the peice and minus V0 going to go and pause it. You can see it's much more bright now. Now after you did the small modifications, this is the way you zoom in and zoom out to apples. If you have Android, that might be a little different. Now that you have the picture we want on it, the flash team tone on because it's an auto. One thing about it flashes is that they don't always turn on how I wanted to suppress fires from the bottom. We're gonna be doing a flash on. Taking the same exact picture. You can see what happened when we took in a fresh on it. Actually, he's not as good to see you in the DSLR when you take and use the flash is actually encompass kids forward and that's pretty good image. When Apple, on the other hand, you didn't walk that row in the attack tree born without the whole image. Maybe because I did a lot of parts to it rather than external whites. And now you can see that over here, this is much better image because I did the past to it and they handed the heart of external the actual modifications in the software in the actual camera. Really good. So we did get one beautiful image. Once we get one glare, good image, we find the way that we got this sweet spot in here. We can therefore take more of those images and keep taking them vulnerable to flash. Images. Position the items themselves and we want, one of the most important things here is to get the part of the initial picture all going to be false one in here and makes sure to put it this gray model that people are not gonna be getting everything else seems only this one is the one for sale. So people will not be accepted to take a hammer. And you get this selfish as well, where you're not just getting dog knows, but they work so good. In here. You will be able to see it, the wave now. Really, really amazing and nice. 14. Etsy Photo Examples: We're learning from the best is one of the best ways for you to figure out what a deque amazing pictures on Etsy. Etsy photography is totally different than eBay photography. And over here we have a spouse cell, and this guy has over 4 thousand sales, which is a lot of sales. One thing I want to show you is that things that make Etsy photography totally different than eBay. There was attention to details zooming in into the product. You can also see a picture in nature, different kinds of popups, different kinds of environments, different kinds of backgrounds as well, have been taken to take this picture. This guy took a lot of time to get those pictures exactly white. You can see over here he totally zoomed into the picture as well. Each picture is split digitally placed and he takes the best possible pictures for most of them? Yes. Some of them didn't come out as well as they should. But most of them are just amazing. He improves their photography. He puts the picture right there and you can see it in style. You can see it in different backgrounds. And can also have a movie over the actual pilot quick he zooms in and makes it a commercial wake movie. This is something you would see in a movie theater. Yes. This guy put a lot of time, a lot of emphasis to put his best walk into creating the most and best possible pictures, including a video effects as well. To get this sales. To get a lot of sales, you have to put a lot of time into getting every single picture, white. False picture. You have to zoom out a bit because then it shows up. And y is the force picture so important. Well, the way ETC, actually does it in the thumbnail. And because it is such a small picture of, it has to be zoomed out. The first one, you can see in his sharp, there was all kinds of images. And every single picture of his hair's a unique and interesting style to it. And that is very essential. If you want your sharp to be really good and you want to get all those sales that you always want it to. You have to put a lot of emphasis on product photography. Let's go ahead and check out another guy who is taking a lot of pictures and has a lot of sales. Well, this one has 2 thousand cells. And you can see over here, those are out of perhaps in the background, there was a ladder of nature in the background. Yes. He takes different kinds of angles, different kinds of things that show you in shocky is this item in multiple kinds of settings. But the most important part is the actual background. It is not all white, something you expect from eBay. It is our add more creative. There was a lot more flavor to it. There was a lot more energy to this as well. It gives it uniqueness. It gives you the desire they want, their story behind the picture. It makes it really juicy. It makes somebody, we want to click on the button that they have to click, which is buy it. Now, if you want to get a lot of sales on Etsy, you have to do what are the best Etsy cells actually do. They'd go ahead and they put a lot of emphasis into the actual photography so the product itself can sell. But the biggest thing that makes people really want to get your particles is that competition is the photography. This is what makes you stand out from the west of everyone else. I imagined the same exact buildup of Boeing or white background. Is that really going to get as much attention as something like this? Well, that guy is holding on his hand. There was the green background and the zooming in into the product too. And take a walk. And other sellers who are selling the same identical thing. This guy is a style sell. He has 6 thousand sales. His product is going for 32 bucks. Keep in mind, is that the competition? Similarly, hence, pictures that have different kinds of backgrounds to them. Why is this so essential and important? One of the reasons why I take a look at what the competition is doing as well. And if you see them doing something similar, that means you have to copy those style and do it one over. So this one is doing very well with the green background, some of the backgrounds on that, this tasty. But one thing to keep in mind, if you want to make your product stand out even better with having even more superior by looking photography. Then the west here is one who is doing or white background. You can see that the difference between all white waltzes, that corefer background is it doesn't make you want to click it as much. And in fact, this guy when your hair is 21 sales for a reason. Whereas somebody who has a very nice background to the pictures and the more decoration they have to it having amazing photography and creativity, the more likely they're gonna get this to ourselves. And the biggest amount of sales. 15. Etsy Shop Pictures: So I wanted to show you my actual wearable sculptures website. This is animal art at its finest I have created and it is my shop. Now if you're interested and want to support my sharp, which I just made over here and create it on Etsy. You're more than welcome to check it out and to make approaches. Now, one thing I want to show you here, which actually makes my site stand out. All the other Etsy competition. And there was plenty of people who sell similar things like it, but nothing like this. And one of the reasons why is when you take pictures, you want to differentiate your product in those many ways for you to do this. And I'm gonna be showing you exactly that. When they take the pictures. Over here, you can see there were fluids away TO out magnets. This has a wall right next to it to illustrate the size. The next thing we have here is a bunch of those medium-sized magnets. I put them all on the desk in a feature them all one by 11 of the reasons why I do this this way is when people are walking at this, there was a three-dimensional view to this, which makes it a lot more interesting when people are working at the actual magnets. There was also pictures, closeup of those items and Christmas decor right in the back as well. I tried to get and use every single one. All the different pictures You could have up to eight in most of my things that they do. And it'll be here. This is a picture form, the font as well. So when you're doing something similar, you want to take different kinds of pictures. Were probably you want to do it in an angle. So you can see you either of those things I've here have an angle like as if you're watching it to form this side. It makes it a little bit more attractive then form the foreign Tony, especially if it is a three-dimensional product. So definitely for a three-dimensional products such as this, if you're just watching it from the front, it looks like it is two-dimensional. And that is the key here. You don't want people to think it is to D when it is dimensional to make the product. When you mentioned that, you have to take the picture from the side. And in a way that makes it work like three-dimensional. It is a big key when you're taking certain pictures. We also have he'll statues. And when you take pictures of something like a statue, you want to illustrate its size. If you just have regular background, it doesn't give it as much depth perception to this. Having some kind of a background in the back of it. Specifically, if it is different kinds of course shade, it gives it a lot more dimension and it gives it a lot more attraction to the product. It makes it the most standout. It looks a lot nicer to die than this. This is a little bit more bone. You can see all the course or two gray for this, this gives it a little bit more taste and makes it a lot more appealing to whoever is thinking about buying it. You have something like this as well here. For this one, this is a classic condition to make it Jurassic addition, I had to use something like a piece of wood and then put two of them are height on this. So it makes it look a little bit different and more interesting as well. You can see close up pictures of the same executive. This is very important and here is more, this is really cool too. In this I used all white background. It makes it look as if it is just standing on space. There was nothing there. That's exactly the week I wanted to do. On the other hand, here is a work that has things in it. This is belly Etsy wake photography. When we have decor weight with the product itself. There were other people on Etsy do the same exact thing they will like to use outside the coal, make it very creative and give it this, ETC, like feeling do this. So it stands out from eBay. It is also important when you're doing this. You want your staff to stand out, you want it to be different. And here is another one. We have the key chain. And it is sitting on a very nice piece of wood over here too. As you work for this, I do different kinds of styles and different kinds of works. I specifically do. I don't why the in my pictures because not a lot of them are barely awake. There was no ongoing same team of the same decor for everything. The reason why for that, you want people to keep browsing. They see different kinds of decor for the different products that I'm selling. And that's what makes people more likely to click on and say, Hey, I want to get this, this is unique, this is different. I wanted to experiment. I pull stayed and I created a brand new sharp. I wanted to see how my sales go because I went ahead and changed a lot of things. I changed it listing descriptions and change the pictures. I didn't quite different than walk into a shop to see if this new work and this new style is gonna get me a lot more sales. You can tell over here that sometimes the pictures don't come out as well as they should. Like this one over here. Those too much gray on the top here, and white on white photography is very hard for you to do. Over here. This is bellows you how we think just blends in all the white and then the actual product over here. So yes, once in a while, you will have something that doesn't come up is good. And do I go ahead and fix just one image? I'm not too sure about that. Sometimes you don't have to go and make every single image to be mind blowing, to be amazing. It's not really as essential. Don't have that done. But on the other hand, if you haven't 98% of all your pictures, amazing walking, and you have once in a while something that doesn't work as good, it is acceptable. But if you have mostly are pictures that have issues with them, that's not a good thing. Now I do have one picture that I really dislike. It is this one right here. Why is that? And you can see that there was too much of this bluish tint to this picture. It should be all white, just like this. You see that it is all white. It is really good here. When those hands, this one is not as great, but the picture came out executive perfect. It is a hardcore on that one. But we do just for that. I'm not sold yet on it. But I am very much into trying to get the best possible pictures for everything that you do, for your walk. You want it to stand out. You want people to say, Wow, those are amazing pictures and I want to get their product. And when they see something like this and they will take it. And you see the attention to details you make. They would place for justice and they will start buying the products that you're selling. So go ahead, check out my shop for ideals and everything else. And if you're sick, you can support it by buying any of my products. 16. eBay Photography: I wanted to talk about eBay photography example and specifically why is your product not selling on eBay? Lot of times it is the pictures to make the biggest difference if the item is being sold, all dynam is not being sold at all. The most important factor here is the picture itself doesn't actually show what you're saying. And if the whites and everything is made exactly correct. So let's go ahead and show you. The first thing you want to actually do is to drag the most important image to the front, showcasing the actual product. Next thing you want to double-click on the image and do some modification to it. In this case, it looks almost perfect. Sometimes you will need to remove the background. In this one, we have to do is to frame it exactly where you want inputs and continue. Now, we actually zoomed in much closer to the actual product and Poisson done and C. Now the next thing you want to do, you see the background is darker than the actual product. It is not all white and that makes a difference. It makes it to look at more dirty. And you don't want that. You want the product to be much more wider in the background itself. Now, white on white is a lot of times not something great. You don't want to actually take a picture of a white product and then have the whole background to be just as white as well. What of times? It actually doesn't do justice to the product and doesn't actually look good on camera. But with eBay modification, you can easily make the white with white with a very simple two clicks that you can do. When you do this, the whole image works so much more better. Those are the simple, easy for you to use tools that is available on eBay. So after you do this, you can see that this is just way too dark. This is way too white. You have to find somewhere right in the middle and do the modification right here. Poisson save. It actually makes the picture looks so much better. When somebody looks at it, it will make it much more attractive. Now the thing is suggest for you to do after you do the right modification for those products is foreseeable if it's still not selling. Add a different kind of background in this specific case, they can all black background, take the same exec pictures and add them to this listening. Also, switch the pictures around F, the force picture is not walking well. Change it and change it over time and after a while, if it still doesn't sell, get brand new images impulse the Min. You can see over here I went about and took the white image across the black background to give this much more depth and space. Next thing you want to actually do is to take your editor and edit some of the imperfections. Specifically, this one has too much workspace in front of the image. So you go ahead, use the crop tool, you zoom in. Then what you want to do is you go to quick edit. Whereas when we touch, make this bigger and just go for all the things on this side that don't make sense in a go for all the different things, the different specs of white. You don't need to focus too much on big edits when you are doing just pictures for eBay, it is not as essential. You're not giving this to a client for them to walk. We just need the bare minimum for this picture to get a lot of hits, and specifically not to distract from the image itself. So anything that distracts format takes away its value. More than likely, you're not going to get this sale that you want and applies for those products. Your focus, it's definitely on making this image as attractive as possible. Focus on the selling points of the image itself. What we're doing is we're zooming into it. Sometimes we need to adjust the white to give it more white. If it is possible for it. Then we're going to go for the next one. So quick fixes is pretty much all you're doing here. But definitely this is much better than the previous. All white on white background. You just didn't do any justice to this file up and made it very unlikely that somebody is going to buy it. We have those small edits that I'm doing right now. It's going to make it very likely that somebody is going to really pay attention to this part of, more than likely they'll gonna go ahead and bind. One of the things you can see here that I did, I made sure that I took pictures from every kind of direction up, down, and on this side, the more directions in the more different kinds of images you have for the product, the more likely that somebody's gonna score for them. And the more they stay on the listing itself, the more likely they'll gonna go ahead and purchase the actual pilot. You can see that there was one form, the top, one from the bottom. Every single image. I took a bit of time taking the picture. But this is not something that takes too much of your time. Ido, more than likely you'll be thinking, hey, I'm just wasting time doing those a little bit of edits. But in fact, you're not, you're giving your customer and let more likely a reason for them to buy auto. You're spending maybe less than a few extra minutes for those small edits, it makes such a big difference for the overall feel of the product. And when you have a lot of different images to showcase to your client, the more than likely they're going to go ahead and buy this product at a price you want them to buy it for. 17. iPhone: Photo Capabilities: I took a bunch of different pictures. I'm gonna be showing you every single one of them, almost every one of them. And you can be the judge to find out this phone is any good for taking pictures or not. So let's go ahead and go through this picture by picture. See if there's any good pictures right here. Start with number one and go through the whole cycle. You can tell where this is any good on that. So zooming in amazing details. See the shade even fixated unless you zoom in super n and look at the notes here. I'm like super zooming in on it now you can tell it's a little blurry. This is some high quality image. You will have to have at least $2 thousand of camera equipment to capture some details that will. This amazing. What I like is the way we end the course and shades and I do teach a photography class. If you're interested in iPhone photography is gonna be a link right down below. You can tell over here another picture of the same exact thing. Really good, really good pictures. Here is another one I doubt. This is a park, by the way, in case you don't know what kind of animal it is? Yeah. Lots of details. Lots of details like the background, how it goes ahead and put so much attention to details. Now is a model appeal. You can tell how on this side blows and out in a portrait mode. Blows it out on the side as well. And the face looks beautiful. You can see right here. Everything looks so great. And then if you're going to be zooming in the boots, Let's check it out. Over attention to details. We will do that tension. You can see you in hue, attention to details. And this one does an extremely, really good job in taking pictures. Here is another one, zoomed in portrait mode, highly recommended portrait mode. For photography. It makes everything look so much better. With the iPhone 13, we get the different kinds of options for the filters for the cameras. And this is something that in very high-tech equipment. Now, we can see right here video, video shot on the form. And you can really see the difference. Here is another video. Here. You'll be good. It makes a big difference for you when it comes to shooting a picture. It just walks the camera is in focus. That's nothing focuses my camera. This does very good job at videos as well. There's similar target of phi is very amazing. Here's another picture right here, and I kept on taking many different pictures. Some of them didn't come out as well as others like here it's a little bit darker, but it's still does a very good job, even if it is saved and everything. I don't like this one. Here's another one. Yes, you can tell it here. Very nice picture. Beautiful picture right here. And another one that I DO. Beautiful smile. Good. Details tends to details the jacket, everything. Really good picture. There is another one, very nice bars on the tree. Another one as well. And you can really tell the difference. This camera is great. Almost no pictures are coming out bad. There is no bullied almost images. It does a good job with different kind of writing and different kind of camera positions is good if you want to take casual pictures, modeling pictures. I would not take this for a wedding photography. Not good enough. But when it comes to videos, who look at that, look at this video, work at the attention to details. This camera is doing everything. Amazing. Amazing when it comes to this similar type of PPE that you can do with this, the whites and everything. Now on the other hand, just let go of pictures and it's a little bit dark outside. Yes. It doesn't come out as good. But it can always edit this in Photoshop and everything else. You can go through those images themselves and edit them up. Picture right here. You can see right here, when it's a bit doubt, this camera is not doing as good a job as it can do. But if you change the fill those or change the setting on around, you can see right here, this was not the fault of the camera, I suppose the photo and photographer here as well. Here's a video. Video of the same thing. Yes. Great job. Foreign protein is good. It's really good. If you can tell the difference, but this is really nice high-end fixtures that it's been taking. Good. And here it is, high-five. Thank you. When it comes to product photography. Same deal. If you're interested in getting something like this, there's gonna be a link down below where you can sharpen my gift shop and get some of those cool things. Those are actually dark part looks exactly like it's a dark bar magnet. And when it comes to pictures, they can picture of a dog pole magnet, which would take for my job. Take a look. Just take a look at this. Wow, this is amazing. This is doing the job that I would take me a $2 thousand camera to do and achieve the same results. And I'm just using my iPhone. It's going to shortcut on so much time for me. I don't want go need $2 thousand equipment to get the same results when I can use $700. Is it better than when I go T-SQL? In some ways, yes, in other ways to know why now, when it comes to snap pictures, taking pictures of motion, the motion it's moving a little bit, they can go blowing. The motion is not this great, But when it comes to videos, it does a great job with videos, with steals. It doesn't do as much of a good job if there is motion, but as long as the subject is moving, this does a very good job at this. But overall, nice pictures, beautiful pictures. Zoom in. You can see the details. When everything good, background blow. The image widening. It's all about the photographer. It do, It comes down to that. If you're very good photographer, you will get amazing pictures with this camera. Video. You don't need to be an amazing Bolson who knows how to do this to get such amazing results. It's all about the camera itself. It gets, say, 9.5 out of ten styles. And I think the next version, it's gonna be even battle. 18. eBay Photo Examples: So I'm all about generating multiple ways of income online. And specifically when you sell things online and on eBay, you want to get into multiple different ways to make income on EB itself. Let's go ahead and check out what kind of pictures and taking on eBay with wider I do different businesses. And which pictures you should avoid when you do eBay. First off, let's get started with the walls kind of image that they did here. It is this one, no idea. I don't know if you can tell the difference and why this is not a good picture. And yet it was sold for exactly what I was asking for, which was 16 bucks, is that the background is not all white or at least all black. It should be neutral background. And the short is a bit when code is well, it is vintage and the part of the business where I sell vintage products, it is not my best example of the items that they sell. But regardless, somebody went ahead and bought the spider, which actually shows to show you that if you do decent kind of photography and white and describe the product, you're going to get this sales that you want for it. Let's go ahead and show you a different kind of product that they took right here. This one is the MAC and this is a wig or western part of my business. Well, I go ahead and break apart different kinds of sets and sell their pilots of it instead of actually selling the whole set, which is how I make money and support my wiggle investing habit. Better example of webgl vesting and pictures for you to take is the following. You can see they're all black. On the bottom. You want to have the background to be specifically or white, just like this, Is much white as possible. And of course, showcasing the actual pilot and making it very beautiful. And you can see how I do this. I take pictures from every single angle, every single side, and including the instructions book with as well. So I give value to this product, and therefore somebody's more than likely to buy it for a higher price than by competition. Let me show you a different kind of pilot. This is part of the vintage stuff that they sell. And in this one, it was a vintage car. So you have to show every single angle of this. It's sort for a decent amount of $46. And the product itself guided super cheap. And you might say, hey, this thing is beat up. Why would anybody pay good money forward? People who like really old products, such as die cast or even anything vintage, they're willing to pay extra money for something that is old and beat up Before you go ahead and chunk this thing into garbage. This thing that is all, it could be Wolf, a huge amount of money. Talking about huge amount of money. Well, this product made a whooping free 100 doors, which is a lot of cash for what it is. And you can see the photography. Some of it is really good and some of it didn't that come out as well. Because the all white background makes the plant looks so much better. It did give more value to the product. On the other hand, in some of it, you can see that it's not as good in the background. You can see the black over there with the white that is mixed in. The product itself is actually white and then the background is not white enough. Is that with the camera, it has a hard time focusing and adjusting the white correctly. And because of it, you either have to switch to a different background or you have to go with the flow and just use whatever you have over there. So in this specific case, I decided to just let it go, take the pictures as is, and just post it up though. And let the product itself cell. And it worked very well. But for you, for your own photo nodess. And because it took such a long time for this to sell, you have to understand to make really good money and to make it faster. You've got to focus on having the best possible images. And maybe I could have sold it for much more money if this was even better pictures, I do suggest for you to take as much time as you can getting the best possible images and pictures. If you can't send this to somebody who is a professional would take the amazing pictures for you, especially if it is cheap and products you don't really need. And the best kind of pilots for you to go ahead and send four pictures are those you don't actually need, you get them super cheap and therefore, it doesn't matter for you if whoever is taking the pictures gets to keep them or not. 19. Simple Editing: Editing pictures for eBay, the important thing is always to take multiple pictures, different kinds of angles. Because you just never know which one is going to come up really well. Over here you can see one of the images that they took, and I'm going to go into and try to edit each one of them. Sometimes you have to figure out which ones are editable, which ones are not. Because there is a big thing for you to know. Like for example, the background in this one is not good, it is barley. The product itself is blowing as well. You can waste a little bit of time, try to make the picture even better, but sometimes the best thing to do is to take the white picture right away. So you don't have to go back and try to fix in the image and to make it good. In this case, we're just zooming in. It fixes the biggest issue with this product, but still we have too much borrowing in here, so it's not that good. Next one, we also have blurry, but this is bell kind of a boy. You can see more of the details of the background and the pulp itself. So this gives us a better kind of broadly two days. And when the picture comes out pretty good in the background highlights the actual product. This is what you actually want to see. In this specific case, there was too much background in here. Since the focus is on the actual product. You have to go in and zoom more. And are also like to use this situation too because it gives this image or add more juice. And sometimes you have to make it a little bit darker as well. Now, next picture is this one right here. This one came out very well. You can see the background is not boy comes out. It makes the picture itself work already good. There is not much to do in terms of editing over here, the picture is almost perfect as is. And that's what you want to go for. You want to make sure the pictures you take don't need much editing to them. I will do either take a picture and habit almost full factored then to go back and keep on taking multiple pictures and try to edit them. Some of them are not really edit the ball like this one over here. It is good, but there was something not as good about the picture itself. This is why I decided to zoom more into it, but still, it doesn't give justice to the actual image. You want to just showcase your best, if possible walk. But the first thing I want to always do is to go for every single image and edit it out and make it the most and the best possible image that you can possibly do for it. And that's something I always do. So if the picture is good, I give my time to make it even better. If it is not this good. I just skip it even though he did. But eventually you will pick the pictures that are the best ones. You can only put 12 of them up there. And you would choose the best pictures for you to use. In this specific case, this one is not too bad. I'm not too much of a fan of this specific background. And yet you have to experiment with different backgrounds to see which one will walk and which one. Not. This one. It needs more whiteness. Four down one. But when you use more brightness, the image itself in the middle gets a bit too dark. So let's go ahead and give it some situation. This is one of my favorite tools, this situation itself. We have a problem. In this specific case, I have spotted something that is now good for this. Usually when you take pictures, you want to make sure that nothing like this happens. And in here you can see something right there. What do we have to do is just go over this. This is very good tool that gets rid of all imperfections. So things like that, really small things. It is very thing that I like to do is to pay attention to the smallest of details. You want to make sure the picture we'll explore fashion or any of those little smudge what's in the image itself. Like something very, very small. Sometimes you can get away with those. But when it gets larger, it just doesn't work good. And edges is not something that you want to do if you're professional because people are going to be paying attention to the wrong thing. Instead of them paying attention to how awesome this product is and why they should go ahead and purchase it. There are going to be looking at and seeing something and like, Oh, this is just doesn't look good and so on. And because of that, there'll be skipping on your pilot. You don't want this to happen. You want to make sure the product is S professional and as good looking as you possibly can make it. This makes the difference between a professional who sells the products that are out waltzes and amateur who doesn't actually care. He does sloppy picture walk. And because of that, you don't get the top prices for the products that you're selling. The only biggest issue of this product is the item in the middle. This right here is just doesn't come to justice of the product because auto I made everything else white. It is a little too deltas, so that is not something I wanted to see in this product. This has the other opposite of the issue here. It is too white and you need to add more darkness, this product, for it to come out. You want to do whatever you can to make the product stand out in the best possible weight. Let's go ahead and put this in the middle and add more situation to the pilot is my favorite to use. This one that we have temperature grading that is not correct with a pilot. You can see right here this is more natural light. This one is not the right temperature. We have to set the temperature to be correct. Let's move it a bit to the positive end. And now it looks white. Yet this one is too warm. So let's change it to wait a bit, the West temperature, making it negative temperature, and that's going to make it much more better working. Temperature grading is essential. You can see that right here. It is the long call. It is not white, it is bull. This tells me that the temperature grading for this one is not correct. There's something that white Q. And As I'm keep on moving it, you can see that it doesn't fix the blue, white here. Something is not right with this image. If you add more exposure to it, it gets rid of the Bull ad appeal. That's what you want to do. But instead what it did. The pilot itself has this white coating to it that doesn't work natural. This is one thing that I don't like about this product was it's a little bit too blue over here, so this image is not this good. I probably would not be using it to showcase this product. Another hand, this one is almost perfect. Everything walked well. You can see the white background. The white is exactly how it's supposed to be. Maybe either with a bit more white, there was still too much with fraction under pilot, but yet this one comes off, I'll add more professional. This one also has the warm color grading as well to it. By adding more exposure, you get rid of this unnatural wore white that we see here. But then we have dazzled overexposure issue of Despite that, once it gets to this overexposure, there was not much you can do to fix it. Because if you're gonna be making a darker, it's not gonna work good now. It works fixated. You can see the pixels on this image. This image is so bad that I hit the delete key, I heat the reading, walks around, but this one is just too bad. It had to go. We have another one right here. This one who really is good. You can see that the image has this situation co-active. It has the color coding to it that it's supposed to be. It gives you this warm feeling when you look at this, this is a great picture and the product just stands out. That's what you want to see. You want people to be and want to get this brotherhood. And here is another one. This one is also almost perfect as well. You can see that there was not any things that are just out of focus. Ball is at minimum order. This product is borrowing to begin with. And then over here it's also good to, when we have pictures that are coming up really well. Sometimes you don't need to do that much fixing or any editing whatsoever to them. In fact, if you were bought the store original networks for effect, There's not much that needs to be done. That's how I like the pictures to be actually done with the eye of the camera without needing any more post-processing to them. The more we spend time post-processing, the more time you actually are wasting at sometimes if you're actually going to make the picture worse than you started with by too much editing. This specific one. It's missing some situation and you can actually only see it by going to the other image of this one. It seems like it's a little oversaturated bit. But giving more situation to the image makes it more favorable and enjoyable for your eye to look at. This one. I cannot believe how nice and perfect it came out. Actually really like this image. There you have it. This is all the pictures that you need in order to create your eBay or Etsy listing. It's up to you to decide which ones you are going to be adding to Etsy and which one to eBay. My opinion is to go ahead and use the same images for both locations. Ortho the big difference on Add, so you can only have ten images on eBay. You can have up to 12, which you have to do next is to delete the pictures that are not so good and you're not sure about. And then just go ahead and use the best pictures that you can find. So just go ahead and drag the ones that you like the most and put them on the desktop. And then we're going to be uploading every single one of those images and putting it and making it the profile picture, specifically the porphyrin victuals should be the best possible image that came out such as this white here. For ads, what you want to do is make sure the picture is pretty much zoomed out a bit. So it becomes the portfolio image for eBay. It doesn't really matter which one is the portfolio image itself, but why It's because of the thumbnail, it is very essential. 20. Advanced Editing: So the biggest difference between an amateur and the professional is the following. This style in the substance, how you take the pictures. A professional, they take as little as possible. And yet the best pictures that he can take warehouse and amature, they take a lot more of them. And then they go ahead and edit every single one of them. So over here, I'm just going to edit all my best images that they took. Everything else was deleted. And it is very selective. You can do this edit in any kind of photo editing software that you have. I use I4 though. So the first thing I'm going to go and go into the image itself and that person, the edit. Next, I have to look at the different kinds of adjustments we can do to this image. This one right here. I'm gonna be using saturation. You see, right now talks do. It doesn't have a life to it. So adding this situation too, it makes it look unique, make it work better and more beautiful. Next to go to the next image. And situation is one of my favorite tools for me to use those other ones as well, such as exposure. You can see that adding a lot of exposure makes it too bright. On the other hand, not ending enough makes it too dark. You want and go ahead and find a balance between both of them to make this picture just to talk, just about amazing. This one over here. I like the background and everything, but sometimes you need to go ahead and crop the image. So this one, when you crop it, you get much closer to the action. Then you apply the law of torts. And with the wolf dogs, you want to have 1 third of the image and the highlights lay then he'll and the other tutorials is going to be farther away from the actual image. And I do the same thing here. This brings the eye to focus on the actual image all by itself. Next thing you want to do is to make it a little bit more darker. And then go to quick fixes. We touch and to fix any imperfections on the actual image. Because it's going to make the image look so much more better. And I go through this just a bit. And you want to go for this just enough so we don't have any imperfections on the image showing up. That makes the picture so much more better. Next, this one is missing my favorite tool, which is their situation. And in a bit more exposure. And now it looks so much more better. If this looks a little unrealistic, make sure you use the temperature dial into diode down the image and add even more temperature or less of it. In this case, just a little. On the negative side, it's going to make it much better image right here. You can see how originally to a quake was oval, saturated with too much brightness in here. You want it to make sure that the image doesn't have way too much brightness because then it's not good. Working. Making it a little darker is much better over here. And of course, you will have to go forward and change everything else as well. So you can see over here that this image, all by itself, There's a lot of small edits that I have to do to bring this back end to make it work with the weightage just as good as before as you can see by zooming way then you can tell all those places like small imperfections are showing up in it as well. So we have to go for this, especially when you zoom in. The more you zoom in, the more you'll get closer to the action, the more the picture shows up every single imperfection in it. And therefore, you have to be even more super careful to make sure every single one of them is covered up. So then it doesn't work like this. Actual picture is not good enough because you're selling a product. And because if you're selling the product, people are buying the pile of dental, want to know though is something wrong with the product. Why would they buy it if they see some imperfection in it? When as I can the actual picture, usually I use a sample for it. So it's not always the same thing that they get. And because of that, this is why the one you do. It's very important for you that's going to work the best that you can have. So make sure you always find the best possible sample. And you can see the difference over here between fixing it the right way. Novel fixing it. In this specific case, I fixed it. I use the weightage tool, but they used it in correctly. I use the big blob over here and then go ahead and waiting. Work. Not neat, but this organized and it went overboard over here. So you can see that when you go and do it with a big blob, it doesn't work good. It's smudges or the edges just like that. And it's not good. You can see over here and you can tell what the original one that was done very carefully forces this one that was that down, correct. And because of it, it deserves to be the way that there's just too much things to be deleted in doubt one, and the picture becomes unsalvageable and therefore has to be deleted. And you can see the angles that they took over the same exact image over here. This one is head-on. This one is a little bit tilted on this side. And this one is a lot more causal. Of course, this one also has the same exact problem with being oval edited. So you have to make sure that you don't edit the image. This is a different picture and we are using a little bit of sand background and I put it right on it. Same deal here as well in both factions. And there's always gonna be some imperfection that you don't actually notice, such as this green right out of blackness. And you have to go through this and see like the smallest of imperfections always show up when the image gets super zoomed in. And sometimes even the whites from this side starts shining at the picture, making it work. And Leo, and those things you that even cannot see you in your life, but you can see them totally. When you go up close in, zoom in. So make sure you go ahead and fix that. Next thing you wanna do is to go ahead and play with the whites. You want to add more, you want to subtract more. You want to crop the image. I'm going to get closer to the action. You want to make sure that it is put in a good direction. So your eye easily drawn to the actual image itself. And then go for every single picture and make sure that it works amazing. And you have to do the same thing as well. You want to adjust this situation tools. You want to adjust the temperature waiting. As you can see, the sand totally changes from yellower, which doesn't work clearly attracted to beautiful white. So let's move it to a white one. Because that's how sands walk in Florida does actually beaches. Without that it was super white and they look amazing. That was yellow sand as well. But when it comes to the picture, yellow over here doesn't look good. In fact, it goes back to the film days. Well, yellow was something that people try to avoid because yellow show that the picture itself got over-exposed with white coming inside the camera. So I have this thing about this, that yellow means bad. And this goes all the way back to the days of film photography. Here's another one with changing, it's wet. You don't want to have the yellow in the picture, make sure you get rid of it. And this one you can see here, I don't know if you can see that there was something wrong in this picture. And if you can tell it's on the left side, you can see how out-of-focus two of them are. Everything else is in focus. So what do you do? You either try to salvage this picture by going ahead and rotating this. And then what I'm gonna be doing is copying it. And when I crop it, I'm going to make sure I'm gonna get rid of the ones that are not good, the ones that are blowing and just keeping the good ones sin. So we can try this as a way for us to fix this image and therefore the reading the bad ones out of it. So here we go. We got rid of the bad ones that will be blurry. You're keeping the ones that are good. And we put this in. So this picture did walk. What does sometimes you can actually fix the issues and therefore you have to go to the next and take more pictures or just keep on editing. So this one is good at every picture seems to come out well, which do a little bit of adjustment of saturation to it with a bit more level to it as well. And just small adjustments. I don't do big adjustments to the images. And this is essential. There was a lot of people who like to, hey, I'm going to do a huge adjustments. And then within all those fancy effects and all and Photoshop, It's not even necessarily using simple editing tools is the key to get those pictures to look good. In fact, though hot, you have to focus on the West editing and more on taking a very good image that is the key to good photography. Over here. We see one of them is out of focus, and that does happen. Here on this side. A little bit black, so it went out of it, so I have to take it out. And then I press on Done, I kept that thing out of it. And unfortunately, this one is still blowing. The way for you to try to adjust it is to go with sharpness and to see if it's going to fix this issue. And in this case it didn't. Then text of course solution to this is either to delete this picture or to keep it. And maybe it will pass as okay, so what do I like you? I like the gold, which came out amazing and the silver one. And because of that and the placement of all of them, how I placed them look too good for me to delete. This is just not a good idea because I like the way I did the image. So what I'm gonna be doing is saving it for later. I'm going to eventually delete it, but I'm going to go ahead and snap something very similar to it for the next time that I'm going to take a picture. So that is an ideal for me to do. And we have more images here as well. And it just looks brain over here. So it is definitely missing something such as situation. Look the difference. Before this situation, it wasn't as good. But now if situation it works fabulous, it looks so much better to go to the next one over here. You can see that this one was over edited. You can tell that this situation is a little too high, the exposure is too high as well. And in this case, the picture, let's go to about two previous this is how the original picture was taken. There was something wrong here. It just didn't come out right. The brightness, the shade of it was not correct. The pictures of the actual products on the stand are not working good. They're really out of focus. So this picture is not a soldier will bow. You can't really fix this image. There's nothing you can do to make it better. This is where the delete key is, comes in handy and you just click on Delete and you get rid of it. This one came out really well. You can see the image details here. What is missing here is, yes, this situation is my favorite tool. And moving the level so we heal a little bit. And you can see that it makes the picture makes it much more better. And if we touching, you have to fix all those bully on this side here. Look how dark it is over here on this side. And the panel, when you've tried to fix something like this, it's very hard. My software is limited when it comes to that. So what you have to do here is to list snap this picture and add more external light. So this doesn't actually happen. And we have the same exact thing here. This one got too much brightness to it. When you have too much brightness, it's even worse than too dark of a picture. There is not much you can do to fix this up to make it darker because it doesn't pick up the image quality of every single product that was taken. And this is really important for you. We want to make sure you get the image's white right away. You don't want to have something that oval exposed, such as this, That's overexposed picture. It's no good. In fact, it's so bad that I have to delete this. Here is a very good picture right here. You can tell that this image is almost perfect. You can tell the word came out really well. You can tell it the product came out very lifelike. And it came with the amazing. Here's another one. This one looks good too though. It's not much editing that needs to be done. Well now other hand, this specific one is not working as well. And the reason why it is weight against Silver. When we have a combination like this, it makes it much harder for the camera to adjust into pickup the actual image. And this is, well, very good. Camelot comes in handy though, is not much of editing you can actually do. You can try to fix this up by moving situation with in contrast, sometimes you'll be able to fix it such as I did over here. But then a lot of times you cannot distinguish the difference between the actual product and the background, the white back on and it doesn't make it look as good. In this specific case over here, it is too focused on the product. The product is in the middle, but it makes it real quick. It is extremely small product just because the picture just the way it was taking. So I will not use this because it makes the particle miniature in terms of its scale. And as I can the work over here, the difference, this makes the product look huge, big. And you want to have something like this. You see this way it looks much bigger than before. And that's the way you want to make sure to appeal to the audience when they look at the images, they want to make sure when they are buying something, that the product is big, it is beautiful and good working. This is why going forward and editing every single image is so essential and important to your success. It doesn't have to be the best possible edits, but it has to be good quality pictures. And then you can just edit them and create a final product. 21. Background & Setup: I want to explain the entire professional setup that they have here and how it actually walks to take pictures for the products that I'm selling. Falstaff is the different kinds of backgrounds. And this one is all black, that is made of cardboard over here, is just pretty much a box. Can put the product over here. You can take pictures with there. And you can use external light shining from the top or form this side right here. Now if I don't need this miniature one, I have another one which is all white. That does the same thing as identical as well. The good thing about some of those possible and cleaner this myself, so it doesn't cost me to mine. You can see over here, this is the police in a highly suggest that you do have a piece that comes in and out. Because after a while, this does get damaged in this my mistake for this one right here. This is for small mobile one that they can take on the goal and put this outside as well if I want some natural light. But sometimes I don't need something like this. A lot of times I need a lot more space. And because of that, they have even bigger vocation. Also have a small one. We just made a 100% out of Lego pieces over here that it is for taking pictures or whatever many figures. Now let's take a look at the entire scene over here and how I go in and use the background for what they needed to be. First of all, we have a huge white on the top over here. We have a small white over here. And a have a son for AMP is also over here as well. That's leg await it too. Show you how bright it actually is. This only helps with taking pictures. Now, we have definitely have a regular people that they use specifically, you can see the angle over here. This is what taking pictures, because sometimes when you have this angle, it makes it much better. For the picture. There was no cutoff such as this to the file this, we have a cut-off that scene like this and you have to edit this out. This acute illnesses it happening. Just putting it over here down both sides. I'm going to take it in. You see that it makes a very nice picture here. And you can't actually see a cutoff on this side over here, which is a way for you to do it. And then when you turn on the lights, get rid of the seed that is featured over here. Turn on more intensity as well. 22. White Background Photos: So what is the most hardest thing for you to take pictures off? If you didn't guess it. It is actually this joy. It is reflective. It is very hard to take pictures on and eat glucose all the time for you to take amazing pictures with your camera. We're gonna go into behind the scenes store where I'm gonna be using my Canon. I'm also going to be using some external whites. And I'm gonna be showing you step-by-step how you can achieve amazing professional results with your cannula and amazing white background. So it looks super professional awake as if it is a 10 thousand TO studio. Let's get started right now. So you can learn how to do this all by yourself in a comfort of your own home. Full stop. We need a big external white. What I'm using here is the door caste system. Over here. You can see the difference on an off. Take a look at how much extra brightness this actually gives you. One other thing that you need to do is when you are using a white, you have to sign a directory where you're signing it at. But you cannot just use the actual LED itself because if you're using just this, it's not enough. In fact, it's going to make too much of the shadows into whatever you're taking pictures of, it's gonna be too much straight on. So what I use over here, Here's a defacto right on here. And you can use a cheap defacto as well. Make sure it doesn't overheat. This one was around 20 bucks in the edit to the door caste system. This specific one is not a motivator. There was a motivator as well. And the motivate, it gives you an ability to change the weight towards it has two different tones of the right itself. Don't get that volition because you want the brightest possible setting and only this one gives it to you. Next we want to do. And I make sure that you point this exactly where you want to. Sometimes you want to bounce it off the ceiling so you don't get the whacked white shining, especially if you don't have something like this, which is a deflector, if you don't have a de facto, you bounce it off the ceiling. If you do have a de facto, you can go straight on and to do it right over here. So now that I have everything set up, I want to show you how you do it with jewelry because Julie is very tricky for you to take pictures off. So first off, you need a few things here. One, you need to have some kind of external inside the whites for you to use. I like this specific quiet over here is an LED light and you can shine it in every direction. So this is a little bit different than using the one that goes straight on because of this one, which are going to be doing is making sure the white actually works for you in a way you want it. So if you want it from the top, you can use it from the top. You can use it from this side and you can use it any way. You are actually like to go ahead and put the white on. But having different kind of whites over here, you can go ahead and make the best that you can. And you're going to be working with different whites as well. So you can use sideways to one of the whites I have is this one over here, which is a sideways you can use over here. And when you use the sideways, you have to position it in a way so the way it goes directly on it from this side. And of course, having different rights, going to make very nice pictures for you. One of the things that I like to do is having a big, huge wide all the way at the top of the screen. And then show you this one is what we hear is the white that I use, which is a sharp white. And it gives me the best possible images for whatever I'm doing, because it is a big and it is a huge wife. Of course. The best way for you to use is to have this specialized. They use all the time. Specialized light is better because it gives me the best possible images. And it also gives me the most wide, as you can see here. It totally flat, everything with big white socks. So this is good when you're taking pictures of jewelry over here. Now, one thing for you to keep in mind is that you can always take a very good picture when something is really just like this for joy. Just sink down on the floor. Because Julia itself is something that depend on the angle. The actual thing right here would shine. Because it shines. Anyone the Ingo, the right by itself doesn't become very good. So what you have to do is to position it down. You can see over here I position it all the way down. And then what I'm gonna be doing is taking picture over two right there. Now, I'm actually using a specialized lens over here. And this specific glands, as you can see, has an ability to write up the subject. From here it has its own right in the actual lens. So that's another way for me to get extra ability to take pictures. So the whole key here is for you to walk with the white to create. The subject to make it very bright in a way that you can take pictures, but that is not the ending over here. There is another way for you to walk with the rights as well. Over here, right there is the thank you. What's you're using here is biting this up or making it darker. You can see the more you move it with the plus and minus, you make it more bright and darker. But be careful with that. If you make it too bright, you overblown the highlights over here. If you make it too dark, it seem involves because there is nothing you can do to change it. So therefore, you have to find something in the middle that gives you very good image quality and makes the picture look pretty good as well. Lastly, use props. So this is a pop. I'll be using the hue and when you position the item and then make sure it looks good, then you're going to be taking pictures and then make sure you are stabilizing thing. Make sure this is stabilized when you're holding it. Don't shake it. And the auto ISO, you're not necessarily get the best possible image. You want to go ahead and go for something like 200, maybe 400, and see how it comes out. There were a number of the battle. The picture is going to come out. If you do it too high, it's definitely going to be fixated. So I want to get around 200 dividends possible. But if it shakes, then that means you have to either use image stabilization in the lens or in the actual body. Or even better if you use a tripod and you can go for 200 instead. And it's gonna get you a very nice pictures for whatever you're taking. Although this is what you do to get the most amazing pictures and images you have to work with the right. You have to work with shadows. And specifically have to show your camera setting is co-active. Wait for whatever job that you're doing. A more advanced technique is to use this following system that I'm gonna be showing you right now. This is great for white on white photography as well. Info Jew photography, it's going to make it super professional working. So the first thing you need is some kind of white that is right on the bottom over here. And we can just turn this on. It is great if you have some kind of a diffusing weight or something right on it, so it's not as bright. Next thing you need, you need a piece of glass that goes right over here. The grass all by itself is going to make this even more amazing and beautiful when you have the finished image all at once. So you need some kind of a glass for this system to actually work for you. Next, you need another kind of a light source. Now, we can have two different kinds of white source. We can have light shining from the sides, which is this right here. You can also use a Kemalist system-wide if you have some kind of a system-wide that cause waveform here. And in this one, it is built right into the white macro system of the actual canon, which was the 28 millimeter Miko. And we can even make it even brighter or make one of them go in and out as well. So you can see both of them or just one of them, or even how hard they are going at once as well. And you can turn them off too. Now, the next thing you can actually do here is to walk with the whole, entire system over here, which is plus and minus system. We can see the plus and minus. And we have to go all the way with the plus to make it as exposed as we can. So it is x super white. And then the yellow is going to be on this side as well. So that is something really important. You can see right here the actual image itself and how beautiful it actually works. And it cannot actually tell. You can see trying to focus. Here we go. We're focusing right on here. And now it looks like super wide on absolutely nothing. To make this battle. We have to go over it, but on this side here, but we have to make sure that we're not actually filming part of the glass. So we have to move a little bit in here so the glass is not showing up as part of it. The secret to make this talk is to find a flash in a tripod. So the tripod over here is a super long tripod that I'm using, but you can use any kind of tripod to achieve the same results as long as you're pointing exactly this way. As you can see right here, the photography itself is really extremely dark. Dark it is right now. I have it much more wider for us to work with whatever you're taking pictures of in making a video. Right now we have a sharp light that's walking all the way from the top. And we have two different nozzles. Sauces are white. You couldn't lose wound cube over here. And a small different LED light that I'm going to be using as well. This is all when one doesn't matter what kind of brand you'll be using. As long as it does the job white. So let's go ahead and set this one off on this, on different seeds or brightness we can use for this one, not suggest for you to go through the highest one. In fact, use the lowest possible setting false to check out and see how it works for you. Definitely much better than before. Now we're also going to be turning this on and trying to project the light from two different sources. One from this side and one from the other side. Sometimes it is best for you to go ahead and do three different sources of light when it's coming from the top. One form this side, another one from the other side. You can see right now, this looks so much better. It's almost completely eliminated all the seeds over here. Sometimes we have to just walk through the intensity. You can see that this way it's just too dark. This is much better. And we have to position it a little bit farther away. Keep on upping the brightness. And this looks way better. Now. Subject is much more eliminated. Just have to keep walking on where to position it in order for us to get the best possible whitening for their subject. But you can see over here, guys, we've decided, alright, and what of c going this way? And you can tell how everything works with the shade. For example, if they see is coming in from the top, it eliminates. But we have the bottom humming a lot of white and making a lot of say over here, there's always gonna be some kind of shade coming out with the right. And that's your help. So much different lights, all so much high density. There's always gonna be some kind of shade. But it's up to you to decide which is the best state for you to walk in, which one makes the subject to work the best with the seed that we have working on definitely better than this, which is no edge whatsoever. Another option for us is to work with them. Onboard writing system would have plus and minus in the camera itself. And to use that in order to eliminate their subject. Then of course, to use a little bit of this sideways, as we can see if you're using the satellite over here as well. In order to get all. This seems to be the perfect combination using fleet different light sources and the plus or minus with the camera itself by upping the exposure level in the actual camera. Altogether, this looks like a very perfect setup and eliminating most of the shade and making this work really the best. So now is the best thing for us to do is to go over all the pictures that we took and to see which ones came out. One is that you should have some of them and how they work like after we did all this work. So let's go ahead and check it out. So for stop, this one came out fibers. You can see the details. And those are the edited pictures after you added, you fix everything in there. Because a lot of times when you just come out, there was a few things that you need to edit in them regardless, this one is nearly perfect as you can see. I just needed to add a little bit of situation and a little bit of exposure. This means this picture by itself was nearly both fiction. Let's check out the next one with a bit more situation, a little bit of exposure. This is almost no editing whatsoever that being done in them. This one had almost 0 editing as well. I just adjusted the levels just a bit. There was always something that you have to do, an additional edit that you can probably add to the picture in this one, just most situation. And that said there was nothing else that wasn't needed to be done. And in this one though is more inhale. You had to add contrast, you have to add situation, you had to add more exposure. And the levels have to be moved up much more because the picture didn't come out as good in this one, a little bit more exposure and levels as well. So you can see over here some pictures do not come out as good as they should as those came out. Beautiful. And let's take a look at this. This one had its issues. You can see that not everyone is on focus and this one is just with waxing as well. So sometimes when you take a picture, they just don't look good. In fact, let me show you a bad image right here. This one is just bad or around the actual core of it is off. The focus is off as well. So when you take a picture, the hallmark of a good picture is to understand what you're doing wrong and then it'll try to fix it or just go ahead and we do it in this one right here. As you can see, the core balance is off. So we have to try to fix it up. For example, we need their brightness much HIO would definitely fix this entire picture. It's going to make it look so much more better. So good that I have decided to just give it as a freebie to my client. Now, some of them, as you take, there was a different background and the wooden background and you can see some of them didn't come out and all right, this one over here just to Bali. This one is actually perfect. I like it. It's not the best, but it is very good. And you can see over here, some of them have with fractions in them as well. So when you're making pictures, you want to give your client the best possible images. As you can see, the setup walked great. Most of the pictures came out almost perfect. And I really like the way it came out like this one, it looks rational. This is how it is stored in an actual studio. So this shows you how really beautiful work is being done when you put a lot of effort into creating the perfect atmosphere, using the lights to create the most perfect and the most amazing pictures. 23. Bigger Objects Photos: Today's video viewable to be looking at how to take pictures of big O MLB professional objects such as distinct. As you can see here, there is slight shadow of this product and it's much darker on this side then on the azo. Just one product. Depending on the product that you want to be taken, pictures have different issues with different shadows. And one side is going to be happening adult code and the azole depends. All the light that you're gonna be using was another one here. This is some slightly small who have different products. The co-variation of it is not coming out collecting. It is much darker than it should. This is like gold, coal, and it doesn't work gold. This one IQ is the smallest one and it is spoken. We can't see it here. Fix this issue. We've got to use external light. The external weight makes a huge difference. You see how dark the object is. Having a light source, brightens it up, but it also causes an issue with a shadow. Here. See the shadow. The big-O Object. This one gets him in more of a shadow because it's much bigger. This side is much more dog or fix this if you have a second external white formed dazzle side. Right? Add this. Now you can see it works so much better with two different light sources. On this side, those are mobile whites sources, with the top being the stationary one. So altogether we have three different light sources for this. See how much of a difference does make. When you turn off the actual length. Big, huge difference. Put on the smallest one. Does have available in my gift shop. That makes a huge difference now it looks much better altogether. Once you pick the object, I'm gonna be taking pictures off. We can change the way the light is shining at this. We can have different kind of white to this by changing the filters. Instead of bulking full Photoshop. You can have in-house photos. This will actually gives us more control of the product and give it different tint. I don't need to go to Photoshop. Fix that we've thing because I'm going to get it all down on camera and it looks much more natural and less editing for me. Definitely go for a bunch of different filters. Disregard course. You can use something like this. We can actually direct how much right? It is getting. We can have like a spotlight, shining, add this. We can open this up and have full, full-blown white coming right at this, which is good. If you're using small objects. We can definitely arrange how we wanted to light to be shining. Using this week. If it is an actual spot in an actual studio, which it is just a miniature version of it. Yet again, we have this shadow in the back. To fix the shutter in the back. You want a second, wait the side and moving it until you get the width of the shadow. Be the flame, this as well. An ableist object. You take a picture of. It's going to have its own different kind of light system that you have two useful. Now, you can see that at the moved, the filter is formed is, you might be thinking, why wouldn't I just use the correct white direct light? Mixed this very shiny. You have to have some kind of filter that goes over it, such as this one here, which diffuses the whole white and mix. It was shiny, especially for assigning objects such as this, which is gold. Gold working with. Once you have this lady and done with the whites. And the way that you get enough, wait for the whole system. Put it in a way that makes it look nice and beautiful. Once you're done with that. Next stage for you is to actually take the pictures. So it takes a while. Get everything ready. For this shot to be done. What you want to do is to make sure a few basics are followed when you're going to be taken to a shot, forced off the lights or have to report factored. There has to be no shadow in the background. Once everything is done. In the back, you can see this is all white. It gives it fairly nice to walk through this. Next what you're doing. You actually have to get a camera that has a tripod, which is the recommended thing for you to do. So you can take the picture of out the shaking because I'm using handhold or here, it is much better with the tripod. Position it, and then take pictures. On the other hand, you get much more freedom of movement when you don't use tripod. And you can just put it the executive with you need to take a picture. Now those two different ways we have to take a picture other people have done until we get this one. When you go ahead and we're very close to the object, not every camera can do this, but the professional Scan be able to take the picture. But it distorts the whole image. Prevent the distortion you have to get out. It was a has to be a slight distance to it, then you're gonna be zooming in just a bit. Taking the picture. You want to get this to look as natural as you can. So once you take the picture, you want to make sure the picture itself, it looks how it's supposed to work like that. Always get this to happen. When it doesn't happen, it's not a good thing. You want to make sure that the picture came out exactly how you want it. For it to be. The preview is the best way for you to figure this out. If you don't like the results, which you're gonna have to do is to go back and we take more pictures to preview. It really is a way for you to sense how they image actually came out was nothing del, reason why? Because there's nothing in the actual image that it was a lot of white. Q. But it's a great way for you to figure out if the picture is in focus or not. And how the white diffuses itself throughout the whole entire image. When you see that point though is going all the way to the top, means there was a lot of white image. The rest of it is Louis dark. That's one way for you to figure out if this is a good image or not. You want to have this more even doubt in the, even out. The bed on the image is going to be in the better. The white source actually came out in the horntail picture. This one is actually pretty decent point here. 24. External Lights: Whites and product photography. It is very essential for you to have the correct white in order to get the image that you actually want. So I have a bunch of different whites were asked to show you. One of my favorite is he'll write on this side. It is this one. It is huge. And what they do is they just move it up and it turns on, get extremely bright. And I will show you how it affects the picture that I'm gonna be doing. Over here. We have the private three down, and this is where the whites all on. Turn it off. Sometimes you can't see much of a difference. But when it comes to the picture, it makes a huge difference into the hue. You can tell that the image itself starts to reflect the actual white. When you turn this off, fraction is gone. It could be a good or a bad thing. But it is really important for the product itself not to have the seed on here and it was mostly the way down you want to get to a little bit. So those are a few ways for you to try it and do this. It is to have a wide, wide or different lights for us to be shining. One of which is wide at the top hue. It is huge way down there is a huge white that I'm using for this product. And you also can see the white background it I'm using as well. So this is a special setup that I'm using to get an maximize the different kinds of lights. I can use folders. You can use a flashlight as well. But this is a very specific kind of flashlight. This one has the light coming in from this side and only from here. But on the minimum, you can use it from different directions as well. That's actually breeding good for us to have this different variety of different lights. And not only that, you can switch this to be just or the white, which is really awesome. When you decide you want to use something like this, like a prop. You want to put it in a specific direction and see how it actually goes with this product. If it's gonna highlight it or not, they were, the Rawlsian is not this great for us and let's go ahead and change it to all white. The shade is finally gone. But there was a bit of reflection to them. Under reflection from coming in, you have to try a different kind of portable light instead. Or you might be thinking, right, Keep and have slightly different kind of light sources for us to use. The answer to that is you don't know which one is going to work the best for us. And because of that, you have to explain them in until you find one that works the best for him. Personally, I think this is one of the best ones for us to use an order, different light sources. Why is that? One? Has a lot of white in it is affordable to it gets the job actually done better than everything else that they have in my arsenal. As you can see over here, it gets rid of this shade. On the bottom. You have to find a location that's gonna get rid of all the shade over here. And it does. Actually did it. Please sing it all the way at the bottom of the screen. So you do have to experiment until you find the correct placement for it. Unfortunately, this you have to hold it. Well, you have to find something to place it right on to get the perfect image. Eventually you'll find the correct placement. You take the pictures and you get the picture, the directory. One thing exhorts the two bonds. If this is a good enough, this backbone to use something else. Let me go, let me say an executive as well until we find the correct shade to this and also moving the whites plus and minus on the actual camera until we get exactly the results we want for the image. And when they do, we take and snap multiple images of the same product using different kinds of shades and making sure the weight is in different directions because you never know which one is going to come out the best. Snap about ten to 20 images of entry. And every time we have a very good shot, I take a multiple different directions over it until I get the perfect one and we don't know which one is for RFID and do a go-ahead and post-process this. When I'm done. 25. External Lights II : Working with whites, especially external lights. Right now, we're not using any light except the one that's plus and minus on the cameras. So we are going to neutro it now. A lot of times I like to up it to a certain level, so we are moving it to about one plus in the books for what Bell. Now, you can still see shades on the side and everything else. So for this and to fix it, the first thing you want to actually do is to add some kind of a base plate to this to make it more realistic cooking. And of course, the guy at how easy dude here is not helping me because he's just weighing over there. So putting them all on a different kind of a simile makes it a lot more interesting for the pictures. Now, I put four to have a bigger than this. But this is what we have to do, but you can see this definitely makes it look so much better. The next thing you want to do is to add some white to this. So we can use this side with a bow. Wait, wait here. And we can edit form the top. And then we can take pictures in this makes it look so much better in Louisa guy is still baking in the sun. You awakes the sun at them, give me him. Now, the problem with this specific Kuwait is it's not bright enough and it is only on this side. You also have a light that is shining all the way at the top over here as well. That's very, very powerful. So what I'm gonna be doing here is changing the white source to a different kind of way. Now just turn on a big white sauce. Show you the one I use right now, which is the big light source for all the whites. Now, I'm going to also be using the sidelight to make this even more powerful. Because you can see here, this is much more strong goal of a white. And we are moving it to max intensity power all the way up. And what a difference. This actually makes, this totally lights up everything. Now I'll talk, it's really waiting everything the way it's supposed to. We have a problem. It only whites it from this specific side. And because of it, what I'm gonna be doing is moving it to the side, so it lights it up. And he gets it more to the side and this makes it look more realistic. So you can definitely see that this is probably the best possible picture we can do with all the white and everything combinations. Now, it is time for us to start snapping. 26. Using Props: Using props for product photography. The pop right here, it illustrates the size of the product. You can see this has a substantial size. Then the extra half the product over here. You can actually tell that, yeah, this is big, but nothing us through its size more than an actual rule. So I do suggest for you to use a wall to illustrate this size with the part of white on it and take pictures of it. But not all rules are really good for part of photography. Why is that? Because they don't look, it really good. Their work or key for presentation. So I usually suggest for you to use walls as a prop, but they do suggest for you to find other props for you to be using, such as this. This looks so much better in more substantial. I'm going to place it in the decade of size. Or a decorator, wait for it to work, work. And sometimes you want to place it right on the edge itself. It looks totally deaf point when you are actually doing it. Good at the hue. You can see that zooming in and the angle it is actually wasted, mix it much more of a better picture. Now there's different kinds of decorations you can actually be using. So this is just one of those. You want to have multiple props to you to actually use. One of my favorites is this one over here. There is so much better with a blob. Then you're adjusting Hidalgo white image actually is. And it makes it so much better picture. Now this is not the only one that they appeal and you want to have a wide variety because y is the spice of life. This one. Actually don't like this one. I'm not going to be using them. But to have different kind of flops is good. This one is a little bit better. Does work more linked list and I'm not a fan of that one. Another one actually realize, definitely feel Christmas decor, easy for you to use. It is extremely cheap product right over here and you take pictures of it. One of these is really has to do with the quiz and station itself. And after a while, you test all of them out until you find one that looks amazing. You find went to look good for the product that you're gonna be using. So about policing it, the white or Caucasian. Then IT staff for you to take pictures and see how it comes out. So you want to zoom in places in the correct way and you wanted to take the picture, it is essential for you not to spend too much time editing the actual image you want to take it and have it done. Very good. In the fourth spot, it is time consuming for you to get it done. And over here we have a different kind of board for us to use different kinds of plates. In pulling the product on. You can see that the white bounces and makes it so much different when you put a different product and you have different kind of pattern to it. And also how doubtful white the actual board is. This one is a little bit more dark. It doesn't come out, is well, I don't think this one makes it very attractive because the dark bottle versus a dog world doesn't actually look as good as a doc product in something like in-between. The next step for you is of course, to pick the correct weight in order to make this very attractive by the photography. 27. Conclusion: Thank you so much for getting all the way to the end of this class. You have made a huge joining. This course have taught you everything you need to know about how to take better photos, but you're not done yet. What you have to do next is to hit the thumbs up button. 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