Trick of Flashlight In Product Shooting

Everyone wants to take great photos, but the high cost of camera body, lens, and a series of accessories keep many people away.In fact, photography is more like of a creative idea then master trick. Professional photographers can take first level photos with the iPhone. In this article, I will show you how to take a better product image with a coomon camera. The trick is a flashlight, papper, a tripod.

The devices I used include a camera (in this experiment, I used the Sony Nex-5N), a tripod, a flashlight (any light you can get, my choice is this Pellor Cree Flash Torch as I have one), a laptop, and one or two soft tissue papers.

By the way, the flashlight’s light would better be white, or the final photo will out of color.

There remaining thing is very simple. If you don’t have a tripod, you may need another guy to help you. Let’s have a look at the final work first.


This is the photo that didn’t use the light:


This is the shooting environment:

The setting of camera is not very important, even the automatic setting is a good choice. The most important thing you need to keep in mind is the angle of camera and the torch. If you don’t sure about which one to choose, try different ones or directly use the way shown in the above picture.

This is another shoot of the model. What’s about this one? It is not hard to get professional looking photos.