By Harry Armeli

You've finally taken the big step of creating a website and taking your bricks and mortar business into the digital age. There isn't a doubt that making your products available online will increase your product sales, but there is a lot more to conducting business online than simply making a website and putting up an "Open for Business" sign on the front page. Your customers need to see your products to be able to decide what they want. A product photographer will be able to help you achieve professional images.

It doesn't matter if you are a private seller on eBay or you are the owner of a multi-million dollar company, if you want customers to buy your stuff, you have to show it to them. The best way to do that is with product photography, which is, of course, images of your products. This is how you attract customers and reel them in.

Product photography is also very useful in advertisements, catalogues, menus, brochures, magazines and flyers. Just stop and think about it, each and every time you read a sales paper from your favourite supermarket or variety shop and you look at the images of the different products, you are looking at the handiwork of a product photographer. And it isn't as simple as it appears.

When creating sales flyers, you often use stock pictures. Stock photos are images that are specially made for general commercial use. In other words, they're not specific or specialised for the sales flyer. However, product photography is extremely specialised. The photographer will shoot your own products. It is specifically customised to your needs and your requirements.

Using this type of specialised service in your sales material, packs a powerful punch. Now your customers can see exactly what they are buying. They don't just see some generic "stock" photo, but instead see the exact product or products that you are offering. It lends trust and strength to your advertising.

We must conclude that the pictures quality is of essence. If you would like to have pictures of your various products posted at your web site, but you do not have a good camera other than the one available on your phone, then you have no choice but to ask a professional photographer to take the photos. Although your camera might have hi-tech features, your pictures will not come out well if you are not used to taking pictures on the kinds of products you want to photograph.

Product photography can be very tricky to get right and time consuming too. You don't have the luxury of a live model who bends and moves according to your directions. The products will need to be manually moved into position, keeping in mind lighting, reflections and angles. Add to that the challenge of shooting small objects and you'll soon come to realise that product photography is best left to the professionals.

Find a good product photographer who will give you clear, crisp images of your products so you can put them in your catalogue, on your website on your sales letters. Since marketing is highly visual, the more imagery you can use to entice your clients, the better off you will be. Add some sharp, detailed images to your next advertising campaign and watch your products run out the door.

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