For many photographers owning a Medium Format camera is the ultimate dream. For years, we've been wowed by magical Medium Format cameras, but unless you owned your own bank, they were simply out of reach for the masses.
It really wasn't long ago when we were dreaming of mainstream cameras having sensors that packed over 30 megapixels. Now, today, we have an abundance of high-resolution cameras that can capture an immense amount of details, and that are quite affordable when you consider the amount of tech and power these cameras pack.
Product photography makes you channel your inner creative so that you can try to tell the story of a product in a single image, and while it might sound easy, product photography can be quite challenging.
While it's easy to build your own basic light box if you want to photograph objects occasionally, a professional setup is often the way to go if you want professional-looking results. Fortunately, creatives are actively building tools, light boxes included, to make the job easier for their fellow creatives.
Whether you have a product shoot planned or want to do some clean still life snaps, a light box will let you do the job right. However, if you're new to it, proper lighting is one of the first things you'll have to learn.
It is not an easy task to create a 360 degrees product view in photos and videos. A recent Kickstarter Project, Orbot is a computerized photography turntable that is aimed to provide easy and straightforward solution for 360 degrees product view.
In order to create professional "studio-like" looking product photographs, typically you will need good lighting source and a light tent. Shotbox is a Kickstarter project that aims to produce a collapsible tabletop light tent that uses LED lights to create a micro-studio environment for product photography, shooting with any camera even with smart devices.