Photography and beauty bloggers go hand-in-hand. Back in the day when beauty blogging first started, most of them time, stock images were used and they were more than sufficient. These days, we’re photographing products more and using as little stock images as possible. We learn how to pose for photos, edit images and covet the latest digital SLRs, all in the name of blogging. Yep, those ticked all of my boxes 😛
A trend, if you will, these days amongst beauty bloggers is using lightboxes to photograph beauty products. If you’re unfamiliar with lightboxes, it looks something like this:
My lightbox. It’s very big, so thank goodness it can be folded away easily
A lightbox is used in photography to give the item a clean and more professional look to it. The standard equipment is usually a light box and at least one fluorescent lamp (depending on how big the lightbox is).
I thought I’d share some advantages and disadvantages of using a lightbox for beauty product photography.
