How To Take & Edit Product Photos With Your Phone

hey guys it's sharmies idris here and today i'm going to show you how i take product photos and instagram photos on my phone i like to use minimal equipment sometimes i do have two dslr cameras and i have two mirrorless cameras around the house but sometimes i don't feel like going through all that sometimes i just want to use my phone and just post it instantly so i'm going to take you through my process of taking the photos um what stuff i use to you know jazz up my photos and how i edit them and how i organize them for posting so today we're going to take photos of this cucumber hydrazole you may remember this from the label video today we need to take pictures of it um just in case you need help with labels i will tag those up in the cards as well so first we need to talk about backgrounds so there's a couple different actually there's a lot of different ways you can do backdrops or backgrounds for your photos one way is to get like this type of photo white box or whatever it's called and you can open it up there's an led light in there some of them come with the lights back here and you can you know put that together and then there's this piece of fabric that you can pull out and you know take pictures right there there's like a small seamless backdrop i don't really use this one it's cheap so i don't recommend it either but yeah that's one way you can do it that's the way a lot of people do it a really cheap way is to get just a white poster board so i got this from dollar tree for a dollar i think they're a walmart for 88 cents so yeah this one i've had for over a year so it's a little beat up but it's a white backdrop so it's still perfectly fine and i'm going to show you how to take pictures on this backdrop another thing you can use is contact paper on like a foam board so this was the first way i was taking pictures i'll insert a picture of that up here but yeah so i i don't know if you can see what the pattern is but it's a marble contact paper that i got off of amazon and then i just stuck it onto a poster board that i got from dollar tree for a dollar as well and if you want to kick it up a notch you can get paper backdrops from amazon as well that look like real backdrops so i have a bunch of them because i use them a lot for all my businesses actually so this is the one i'm currently using like i don't know if you can see that but it's like a marble tile and it has a thing on the back too but i don't use this one um there's this wood one i don't really use this one because it doesn't look as realistic but this one looks good in photos poked my eye and then this one i use for my other business and then you may recognize this one because this is the one i actually do my diys on and then this was also the one i used to take pictures on i used just like a brown piece of construction paper and i put like a diagonal and took pictures on this and i'll show you how to take pictures on these as well some other options would be to use like the seamless paper where it comes in the big roll i like you can see that in my i think my second vlog studio vlog and you can also use like the big old fabric backdrops i don't use these so much anymore because they get so wrinkled and i just don't feel like dealing with them and you can also use like a silky type of fabric i use these for some photos like for instagram so i just bunch it up and you know get real artsy with it and then some props you can use would be like um some leaves i have fake ones i have some real ones off of some plants that i have in the living room some nice bowls wooden bowls marble bowls mortar and pestle today i'm going to use like cut up cucumbers because it's cucumber hydrazole so first i'm going to show you how to take a photo on a white backdrop just in case you need it for like amazon or your product photography i don't typically use white backdrops but i did have to for amazon so i had to learn but i'm going to take it on this 99 poster board which works perfectly fine and i'm going to use my iphone which is iphone 11 but as long as you have a good camera it really doesn't matter um and then for my source of light i'm using the sun because it's free so um you can use a ring light or some other source of light but i just have the light on in this room which can't really see right now but i have a window directly behind the camera where the sun is coming straight through at this time of day and i've closed this blind because the light will come through and it'll have like a line pattern coming through the back of the poster board which i don't want so first you need to make sure that your poster board is bent straight up and mine will be at an angle just because of where the sun is coming from and you can always put something just behind it so let's put this olive oil back there okay and then i'll put this here so i'm just gonna open my regular camera app i haven't downloaded any extra apps um for photo taking so i'm gonna get it in a position that i like i typically like to take them a little further back just because sometimes i need to crop it in different ways for different um you know platforms so i'm going to tap the screen to where my text is where it says cucumber hydrazole and then i'm just going to move up so i can move that texture i'm sorry that exposure up and as you can see the background and everything else of course will get lighter and the background gets wider so i'm going to get to a point that i'm okay with i think that's good and i'm gonna take the photo and i'm gonna do it from a couple different angles do some sideways i'm even going to take some from overhead and a trick you can do because sometimes you know it rolls uh you can use like sticky tack i think i got it from the dollar store yeah i did because i got at the same time i got the poster board but they also have it at michael's and stuff so i just stick it on the back of there and then have it just like that and i'm gonna do it overhead now and making sure my shadow is not in there so if you have to zoom in just zoom in and do that same technique where you tap and turn up the exposure so i only use two apps to edit my photos and one of those apps i only use if i'm using a white backdrop and that's going to be facetune 2 so i'm going to go ahead and open up that app and open up my photo and then retouch and whiten and i'm just going to whiten the backdrop so i like to keep it in the middle at first so i'm just gonna do the whole background alright and then you can move the little dial to make it wider and then you can see what you missed because i just did a quick sweep of it but you do want to go ahead and get in all those nooks and crannies luckily this bottle doesn't have too many and i do not overlap the white label i just let it be okay so i'm not going to make it that white that was just to help out someone i like it around there and then i'm gonna save it and then i'm gonna open up the lightroom app and then open up that photo which is this one here and first i will crop it to my needs so if it is for like etsy or for something else you need like a square so you would want to back up use a photo that's a little bit further back but for this sake i like a 4x5 because i'm just going to post this photo on my instagram so let me zoom in just a little bit that's fine and then there's like a little dot because i think i wrote a pencil right there um so yeah i'm going to go to healing and then i'm just going to go over that and that works just fine and now i'm going to adjust the lighting so if you want a little bit lighter you change the exposure i don't really need it that much lighter and then contrast you can see what that does all right i'm trying to bump that up a little bit if you don't want it as bright you can take the highlight down or you can knock it up so i am going to have it up shadows no i don't need to change that the whites you can always make it a little bit brighter but i don't want that label to disappear into the background so i'm just going to change it like that and you can see what you started off as if you just hold down right here all right and i like that photo and of course there are presets but we'll go over that when i do this little the other type of backdrops you can use so i think that's a great photo i'm just going to save it export to camera roll and i didn't have to do too much work it didn't take long it took me longer to explain than anything so yeah that's in my camera roll now and now we're going to move on to a different type of backdrop like the backdrops that i got on amazon so for whatever reason every couple of months i like to change photo backgrounds and right now i'm really liking the tile marble so i'm just gonna take the sticky tack and put it dead in the center of the back and lay it somewhere i move it a lot so um and today we're using real cucumbers because it's cucumber hydrazole so you know you can lay some out and then in your camera app just take a photo not everyone will work i can already tell i'm not going to care for this one that much but you can do it [Music] okay i am no expert product photographer obviously so i just do what i like [Music] [Music] okay so i think i've come up with one i like which would be that one right there okay so you can eat them but i have not disinfected that surface so i'm not going to eat those now we can take it to lightroom let's see all right so let's bring that up a little bit let's bring those shadows up but not that far oh yeah i'm supposed to show you the presets too so presets would look like that if you see any you can also buy them on etsy or any website not any website but a lot of websites i'm not seeing any that i like you can change it to black and white i'm not a black and white type of photographer matte that doesn't work for this type of photo so i'm going to edit it the old-fashioned way [Music] and so you can see that is the photo before and after okay and i like it like that so i'm gonna export it to my camera roll and that's it so those were my quickest tips on how to do product photography with the sun your phone and just some cheap backdrops so i do hope this helped i sincerely hope this helped some people out there and if you have any other tips for people please drop that in the comments below and if you have any questions i will do my best to answer those um i'm not like an expert product photographer but i do pretty good i think so myself with the materials that i do have so yeah i hope this helped thank you so much for watching bye you

Channel: Charmed Handmade

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Keywords: iphone, iphone photography, small business, iphoneography, product photography, how to, from home, white background, cheap, diy, simple, easy, entrepreneur, lashes, lipgloss, skincare, hair care, cosmetics, website, etsy, instagram, content creator, flatlay, etsy product photography

Id: nFxo3MRzEYA

Length: 15min 32sec (932 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020