Starting A Career In Product Photography

Product photography is a popular career choice for many photographers, especially those who like taking photographs for catalogs, fliers and other advertising media. If you have a good grounding in photography, you may know the quality of photos needed to please the client.

To develop an understanding of the work required, you should look at catalogues, fliers, magazines, advertising and almost anything with product photos. To start off, you can attempt to create you own product catalogues by taking images of products to display on an imaginary catalogue. You can refer to the work of other photographers and see if you can meet the same standard of work.

A good way to start a career, is as an assistant to a professional product photographer. There is always a demand for assistants, and most professional photographers, started their career as an assistant.

Once you create your portfolio of product photos, then you should make a few calls to photography studios and see if there is a need for a new assistant for product and commercial photography. Always keep your eyes open for assistant jobs in classifieds in newspapers and online classifieds.

Getting a foothold in the industry is quite tough, but once you begin your work as an assistant and you continue to include more images in your portfolio, you may develop a solid reputation of producing quality work and be in demand for product photography.

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