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Product Photography

About This Class

Welcome to the PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY Class, an online photography course for makers and creatives selling products. It will teach you how how to style your photos to tell a story and ensure your customer sees the value of your products. We also cover the basics of lighting and composition.

I recommend you aim to finish the course in a minimum of 4 weeks, but a maximum of 6. Put a time frame on your learning to ensure your completion success. The lessons are designed to be viewed weekly. 

You can find each lesson in this class on this page a bit further down all in the one place (no clicking around and getting lost between different lessons and classes!), which begins with a video from me and includes an optional audio download of the lesson, in case you’d like to re-listen to it again in the car or on the bus.

Each lesson has tasks you need to complete and submit, to get the most from the class content. These can be found directly below the video lessons. Your tasks can be submitted to the Photography forum – this is recommended to gain feedback, valuable to your learning.

I’ve also included links to further reading for each lesson where appropriate, to ensure your learning is well rounded and extended beyond the knowledge I have to share.

Community Support

I choose to surround myself with brilliant women (and men!) who understand that we can all make it, together.

I invite you to join in the community discussion and share your experiences, issues, achievements, advice and encouragement with each other, because business is not a race, it's an adventure, and we all need to have each others' backs to reach the summit.

As part of your membership, you have access to the Members Forum. This area is for asking any questions specific to this class or any of the other classes in the Makers Academy. Please direct any and all questions you have for me via this group, so your fellow students can benefit from the answer also! 

We also have an "open to anyone" Makers' Community group, which is a vibrant and supportive environment that I encourage you to join and invite any of your creative friends to join also. This group is for anyone who makes, in any capacity, who is interested in building that creative passion into a profitable business.

I'd love to see you share your results from all the tasks in this class in the Members Forum, to help, encourage and inspire others in their business adventure!

Product Photography Workbook

This class includes theory and practical tasks that you will need to complete. All tasks and practice exercises are included in the Product Photography Workbook, which you can download now by clicking below.

LESSON ONE – Lighting

The Ultimate DIY Guide to Product Photography – Shopify.com.au – this has a fab little 3 minute video you should definitely watch!

Lighting Tips: How to shoot killer product photography at home – PetaPixel.com – this tutorial uses a more professional lighting system but the video is great to demonstrate the different light sources you can use on an object and how effective a bounce reflector (ie a piece of white cardboard) is. This particular video will also be very useful for anyone shooting glass products or any products you might want a dark background or reflection for.

LESSON TWO – Depth of Field

LESSON THREE – Framing

LESSON FOUR – Styling

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