Product photography is used at many levels of this industry. Even if you work for a manufacturer that brings in professional photographers to do catalog photography of products, knowing how to take good product photos of giveaway prizes and tradeshow displays is a valuable skill. And for store owners, being able to produce quality photos of new inventory for use in a website or email newsletter is a dollars and cents skill.

Learn an important skill…for free!

Bogen Imaging, a manufacturer of camera accessories such as tripods and lighting equipment, is hosting a free hour-long webinar this Friday, Oct. 3rd titled “Selling Your Products Online? Learn How to Shoot Products that Sell Themselves“. The webinar will be at 2pm EDT and registration for the event is free.

The webinar will be taught by Mark Astmann &  Christopher Abbiss, Bogen’s Lastolite Product Managers. Covered topics will include:

1. The Cubelite – quick portable lighting system perfect for taking web images. Enables businesses to master the complexities of lighting, shadows and reflections, and take ready to use photographs
2. Additional, exciting lighting options
3. Tips to achieve great images with a digital point and shoot camera
4. Positioning and placing light on your products
5. White balancing your camera to eliminate unwanted colors to your images

Webinar attendees will be able to interact one on one with the speakers to ask questions. They will also get a chance to win one of three Lastolite 20-Inch Ezybalance Cards being given away at the end of the seminar (but you must watch until the end to win!). There will also be a recorded version of the webinar made available afterwards to attendees of the live event.

Isn’t a webinar just a commercial?

Obviously the event is a promotion for the Cubelite but it should also have some good educational content as well on lighting, a subject too many photographers know little about.

And what if the webinar does convince you that a Cubelite is something that you can’t live without for the photography you do? The basic Lastolite LL LR1886 18-Inch Cubelite that is probably big enough for photographing most scrapbook products is available on Amazon for just under $76 (or there’s the Lastolite 24″ Cubelite for just under $100).

I’m signing up so that I can improve my photography of items for Scrapbook Update, and I’m hoping that it might improve my photography of my scrapbook pages that are too bulky to scan well.

It’s free and should provide information about a topic that is very useful to a lot of people in the scrapbooking industry…check it out!

What: Bogen’s Learn How to Shoot Products that Sell Themselves Webinar

When: Friday, October 3rd at 2pm EDT