🫣 how it started vs. how it’s going (DIY product photography)


Welp, we all start somewhere. I’m embarrassed to look at (least alone, share) some of the earliest product images of my candle brand. 🫣 The lighting was bad. The angles and focus were off. The product didn’t look interesting. I remember once confidently sending a really bad photo to a retoucher and asking them to make it look “better.” The photo was so bad that they, in fact, could not make it look “better.” It was in that exchange I learned that even post-production retouching wizardry 🪄...