lol, I just get them for low light when needed. Otherwise I add filters or literally just finger grease to reduce the quality

Fucking yellow pages grabbed my number and I used to get tons of calls to ask if I did passport photos.

A lot of these are done in studio with a backdrop edited in. You can see the studio reflected in some of the watches.

It’s all light control. I recommend you to watch Karl Taylor on YouTube with special attention to lighting reflective surfaces.

Usually when I have to shoot social campaigns for jewelry with my wife, I end up grabbing a reflector with a black side and use it to control the reflections of the product surface - it looks like those photos.

I’ve never tried the polarizing filter for product photography. Hell, I’ve never heard or seen anyone recommend it. Reading about it here for the first time.

Here’s Karl’s channel showing the principles of lighting in two minutes (forget the cone just use a dark room) https://youtu.be/y7uBr6CnTF8?si=PdMjA-G_uaH1cvY6

I think it’s because people think we’re a simple service provider. I get phone calls for passport photos from Yellow Pages. I just asked them to remove my phone number lol.