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deputychairman replied to your photo “I always forget and paint my nails right before I have to do product…”
but such a cool nail colour! I don’t know what this object is but I would almost buy it just because of the cool nails holding it - isnt that how advertising works?
Ha ha my friend Danyell just said almost the same thing on Instagram. She said that she likes evidence that the seller is someone relatable.
I do product photography for a mix of stores, though– well, three. eBay, where we’ve been a seller for around 15 years, maybe more, Amazon where mostly we don’t need to upload photos but very occasionally we do, and Etsy, which is my pet project. eBay, our competition often has blurry cellphone pics, so anything goes really– but for years, we were extremely slick, and our small company’s owners wanted to look like we were much bigger, thinking that would make us seem more credible. So we really try for sterile, professional, catalog-style shots, all white background and no hands and no shadows.
Etsy is a much quirkier marketplace, and they actively encourage you to pose with the products and such. I gave up on using cute backdrops (we have a weathered-wood windowsill and a brick wall that looked phenomenal but it was a hassle to shoot there, customers could see me and would bug me) and just use white, but I’ll have my hands in the shot a lot more, and sometimes, yeah, I’ll have cute fingernails in a shot or two, or have some of my sleeve showing or something. There have been a couple of items where I’ve convinced various of the retail clerks to pose with it– there was one enormous lens, a 600mm f/2.8 I think, that I got one of our smallest shopgirls to hold for effect. She’s like, five feet tall, and this thing was a 30-pound behemoth with a front glass element like a dinner plate. I was pretty proud of that shot.
As for the nail polish– I just bought it! The grocery store cheap brand, Sinful Colors, in Endless Blue, because I’ve been looking for royal blue nail polish for ages and am sure I own some and can’t find it. <3 I might put a layer of glitter overtop because I definitely have blue glitter.
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deputychairman replied to your photo “I always forget and paint my nails right before I have to do product…”
but such a cool nail colour! I don’t know what this object is but I would almost buy it just because of the cool nails holding it - isnt that how advertising works?
Ha ha my friend Danyell just said almost the same thing on Instagram. She said that she likes evidence that the seller is someone relatable.
I do product photography for a mix of stores, though– well, three. eBay, where we’ve been a seller for around 15 years, maybe more, Amazon where mostly we don’t need to upload photos but very occasionally we do, and Etsy, which is my pet project. eBay, our competition often has blurry cellphone pics, so anything goes really– but for years, we were extremely slick, and our small company’s owners wanted to look like we were much bigger, thinking that would make us seem more credible. So we really try for sterile, professional, catalog-style shots, all white background and no hands and no shadows.
Etsy is a much quirkier marketplace, and they actively encourage you to pose with the products and such. I gave up on using cute backdrops (we have a weathered-wood windowsill and a brick wall that looked phenomenal but it was a hassle to shoot there, customers could see me and would bug me) and just use white, but I’ll have my hands in the shot a lot more, and sometimes, yeah, I’ll have cute fingernails in a shot or two, or have some of my sleeve showing or something. There have been a couple of items where I’ve convinced various of the retail clerks to pose with it– there was one enormous lens, a 600mm f/2.8 I think, that I got one of our smallest shopgirls to hold for effect. She’s like, five feet tall, and this thing was a 30-pound behemoth with a front glass element like a dinner plate. I was pretty proud of that shot.
As for the nail polish– I just bought it! The grocery store cheap brand, Sinful Colors, in Endless Blue, because I’ve been looking for royal blue nail polish for ages and am sure I own some and can’t find it. <3 I might put a layer of glitter overtop because I definitely have blue glitter.
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