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How to Light a Product Shot Like a Pro (Using Scrims, Softboxes, and a Piece of Foil Card)
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How to Light a Product Shot Like a Pro (Using Scrims, Softboxes, and a Piece of Foil Card)

Product photography has a reputation for being intimidating, and honestly, for a long time I avoided it. I’m a lifestyle and travel shooter at heart. Give me golden hour on a mountain trail and I’m happy. But clients don’t always want mountains. Sometimes they want a bottle of whiskey looking like it belongs in a magazine spread, and that used to send me scrambling. What changed things for me was watching how working commercial photographers actually think through a product setup, not just the gear list, but the logic behind every decision.

Why Your Softbox Isn't Actually Soft (And What Joel Grimes Taught Me About Modifiers)
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Why Your Softbox Isn't Actually Soft (And What Joel Grimes Taught Me About Modifiers)

I spent an embarrassing amount of time blaming my gear for light that looked flat, harsh, or just plain unflattering. I’d drop money on a new softbox, get excited, and then wonder why my portraits still looked like I’d pointed a flashlight at someone’s face. It wasn’t until I started digging into how modifiers actually work — not just what they look like in an unboxing video — that things started clicking.