When you want to take great product photos, you need to have very good tools. Essentially, you can have all the talent, but having these tools at your disposal can boost your productivity quite a lot and possibly triple the product’s sales.

The things we’re going to discuss are cameras for product photography, shooting tables, cycloramas, background removers, and light tents. Once you’re done reading this, you’ll know what to look for when getting started with product photography.

Obviously, the first thing we need for any kind of photography is a camera, and we need to find a good but affordable option because there are many cameras on the market that have different specs, and it’s a huge hassle to pick from the crowd. So, we suggest three:

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These three are probably the best possible choice for professional product photography. But, you still need other equipment if you want to be able to display a great photo on your product brochure or website or if you do product photography for a living.

A foldable shooting table always comes in handy. You can carry it with you to your clients or wherever and whenever you’d like to shoot some photos of a product you want to sell. The two top picks for shooting tables:

A cyclorama is something that every photographer should have, especially if you don’t have a shooting table. It provides the best background for product photos because it’s designed to look like an infinite white loop behind a product.

Equipping yourself with a cyclorama ensures that you’ll always have a good background for your products. There’s no reflection, no glare, no nothing, just the product and pure white behind it. If it’s not essential, then it should be considered an essential tool.

Professional photography sometimes requires the use of software that can remove the background from an image. Think about it. Whether you’re a wedding photographer, a food photographer, or a product photographer, you need this kind of software.

When a photobomber enters your background, you can easily remove it and keep everything as it is. It’s a great solution because it’s cheaper than getting a cyclorama or a shooting table, and it’s useful even when you own these pieces of equipment.

Imagine taking a photo of a product in your cyclorama or on your shooting table, and a fly or any kind of bug lands on it. There’s no need to use any expensive editing software when you can use a simple background remover.

Lightboxes perform a similar function to shooting tables or cycloramas. However, if you truly want to get rid of any shadows at all, these are fantastic pieces of equipment. They’re usually equipped with LED light beads, and these can be dimmable. These are the top three picks:

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Photo credit: The feature image has been done by rawpixel.com. The picture showing the photo studio setup with softbox was prepared by Africa Studio.

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