| If you are selling products online, be it your own | | | | complicated. For instance, having one or two darling |
| online store or in an auction site, good photos are a | | | | children fiddling/using/wearing your products (if |
| must!Here are 9 tips if you want to ensure your | | | | they're meant for children) always helps.6. If you are |
| product photos stand out!1. Snap a shot of a portion | | | | selling clothes, get someone to model them. If your |
| of the product. It could be half or three-quarter of | | | | model is shy, tell him or her to turn their face |
| the product. You don't need to show the whole | | | | sideways. Or better, just focus the camera on their |
| product. Use a thumbnail of the partial product to | | | | bodies. Many people love to see how clothes drape |
| attract customers to click for a larger photo.2. Angle | | | | and fit the actual body!7. If you have the same |
| the product. Must all photos be shot from the front | | | | product in different colours, why not arrange them in |
| and flat straight? No. Angle your camera so it shoots... | | | | a circle and shoot? It's always attractive and at the |
| well... from an angle.3. If your product is combined | | | | same time, shows your customers the range of |
| from a number of parts, have a separate photo | | | | colours available.8. If you are selling photo frames, |
| showing the separate bobs and bits. This allows the | | | | why not insert a photo into the frame to make it |
| customer know how it all fits together and what | | | | look lively? Inanimate objects always look better |
| they'll be getting when they buy it. And describe the | | | | when they're shown used.9. If you're completely lost |
| parts.4. If the product you sell is tiny or elaborate, | | | | for ideas, pick up great catalogues and brochures |
| show off the incredible detailing of this tiny product. | | | | (my favourites are those by IKEA). Study how |
| Shoot close-ups of the product and get more of the | | | | products are featured and how they are arranged.Nic |
| intricate details.5. Show how it is used. If the product | | | | Sim of Redbox Studio designs marketable websites |
| is best shown being used, shoot the photo with a | | | | for solo professionals and small businesses. |
| model using the product especially if it is new or | | | | |