Photos for Online Shop

chipperhead · 25 Oct 2006 at 16:55

I've got a bit of a dilema with regards to putting photos of products into my new website.
We used to use a basic digital camera and take the pictures ourselves.

Since we are getting a new site we then decided to get a photographer who charged us £25 per hour and they are very good, however we are now thinking of paying about £100 for a small lighting studio from ebay and even possibly getting our own decent camera.

It would be much more convinient for us to take them ourselves but do you think we could get them upto a reasonable quality ourselves?

I'll post a picture of old and new pictures.
Also what do you think of the standard of the pictures on the old website to the new ones?

Old:

New:

Old Site:
http://www.fizzproducts.com/cube/index.php

New Site:
http://www.fizzproducts.co.uk/index.php

Colin_da_Killer · 25 Oct 2006 at 17:23

the old one is really bad to be brutally honest, couldn't even make out what it was, the new one is good but I don't think you need a professional to do that. a good compact camera on a mini tripod and a product light tent (or what ever the proper name for those things are) and you are sorted to take pictures of any products you like and I'm pretty sure they will look just as good as the 2nd one you posted, if not more.

brocksta · 25 Oct 2006 at 19:52

the new pics + site are much better, but its not impossible to emulate what the photographer has done. Just use angles and different objects to make the shots a bit more interesting.

p.s am i the only one who thinks some of them soaps look good enough to eat?

FranchiseJuan · 25 Oct 2006 at 20:04

brocksta said:
p.s am i the only one who thinks some of them soaps look good enough to eat?

Soap? I thought it was cake....

chipperhead · 25 Oct 2006 at 21:27

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

What I've decided to do is get another big batch done at the photographers, once he's set up he can rattle loads of products off in a couple of hours, this should cover virtually every product we make.

I'll then get a lighting tent and we can do the pictures as and when, make a new soap loaf and have it pictured and selling on the website on the same day.