Photography in a Small Studio

Photographing in a small studio. I help a customer (a non-photographer) shoot professional level product images from a mini-studio set-up in their own office.

Once up and running, they’re able to continue to shoot professional level product images without any further assistance from me!

This is fantastic knowledge if either you or your clients need images of hundreds of similar products for displaying in catalogs and websites etc.

Shooting in a small studio can be challenging, but it isn’t impossible. There are a number of things you can do to make working in limited space easier and more effective, which is what I recently showed when I set up this small studio for a friend’s business.

If you enjoy this class, be sure to check out our blog post on How to Build a Small Photography Studio Setup.

Comments

  1. Hi Karl and team, really informative and to the point guide to creating a small setup for quick e-commerce shots.
    My question is how do you deal with the situation where majority of your clients ask for such a similar favor, then won’t it impact your business where they themselves take their photographs and no longer needing your expertise? How do you tackle this situation?
    Thanks

    1. Hi, I guess the choice is simple you can just say sorry I can’t help you set up your own studio I can only offer to photograph items for you. In our situation here in the UK it is not cost effective to offer these sort of photography services because there are already other pack shot providers offering low cost services.

      1. Thank you for getting back with the answer.
        Do you mean it’s already something that you don’t offer as a service because it’s too expensive for the brand if you’d do it and there are people out there who do it way more affordable, so it makes sense to just maintain a goodwill with the client by helping them setup their own studio? If I make sense.
        I’m purely talking about the business side of things here.

        Thanks

        2. Hi, yes there are specific ‘packshot’ companies that can do it way more affordably than we could ever do it for so it made sense to maintain goodwill with the client as we would never have gotten this work anyway.

  2. Hi Karl and team,

    Would you be so kind to reply with a link if you have the exact list of which equipment is used for this setup?

    Thank you !

    1. Hi, I can’t remember exactly because it’s not our equipment, the client who is shooting his own wine purchased this kit, I think it was 4 Elinchrom 600 power monobloc heads, a stripbox and a medium size softbox and I think they had a Canon full frame 35mm camera maybe a 6D? The lens was about 80 or 90mm.

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