Products
Window to the side
How to shoot marketplace product photos with an iPhone
What the marketplaces ask of a listing photo, and how product photographers meet it with a window, a sheet of white paper and a phone.
Guides
How working photographers light, arrange and frame the things small shops sell, and how to do the same with an iPhone on a kitchen table.
Products
One light, fixed
How to make a whole product catalogue look consistent
How e-commerce studios make hundreds of photos look like one shoot, and the parts of their method a one-person shop can copy.
Flat lays
Soft side light
Flat lay photography at home with a phone
Keeping the phone parallel to the table, finding soft side light, choosing a surface, and building an arrangement from the hero outward.
Café & food
Backlight
Drink photography for a café menu: milk tea, coffee and juice
How beverage photographers make a drink glow, keep glare off glass and plastic cups, deal with ice and condensation, and line up a menu set.
Composition
Hero on a crossing
The rule of thirds and the rule of odds in food and product photos
Where the rule of thirds comes from, how food and product photographers use it, why groups of three read well, and when to centre instead.
People
Face the window
How to take a professional headshot with an iPhone
How portrait photographers frame, light and pose a headshot, and how to get the same with an iPhone, a window and the self-timer.