With lots of folks working from home doing artwork, selling items online and marketing their own products creating images is a skill folks will need to perfect.
The camera is all-important as is the lens being used. A low-end digital SLR camera would work fine for object photography.
It should offer manual white balance feature, and interchangeable lenses and a hot shoe for flash work.
For this work, a good lens would be a 35 to 70 mm f 2.8 unit this will enable you to get good wide-angle shots and zoom into highlight certain areas of an object.
A shoe style flash unit that has a movable head for bouncing flash will make lighting your objects easier.
A tripod is a must for the most professional looking object images.
Lighting is the biggest issue you will encounter doing this type of photography work.
If possible, shoot using natural light if not build or purchase a light box to shoot in.
The white balance will be different for every object, just experiment till you understand the process.
Always bracket your images, shoot an image at the light meter recommendation then one stop before and one stop after this should assure great object images.
Backgrounds should have no distracting clutter. If you are shooting objects that have glass over them make sure you are not getting glass glare if need be remove the glass to shoot.
This should not be a problem if you are not using flash. Foamcore board either white or black works well for a shooting background.
With practice, your object images will project a professional appearance to your viewers.
Good Luck in your shooting ventures!
Happy photo trails
Dick Bloom
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