Making Good Photo Settings

If you are going to spend time and effort making something that looks good, then of course you want to show it off. So it makes no sense going to all the effort building and not spending time on the pictures that everyone will see. 

A while ago I started selling on etsy, where due to the nature of the interface and the customer base, photos are everything. It was a good choice for my first exposure to online selling as it has got me developing good habits in regard to visual presentation of products from the very beginning.

My first gaming related design was some fallout themed coasters, and I wasn't happy just photographing them on a nice tablecloth as it doesn't fit the scene viewers would be expecting. I was drinking a fosters on my dirty little table and the idea was right in front of me. My table was dirty and stained just like a wasteland set pieces, the beer in a classic plain brown bottle shape. So I drank a few more and made up some bottles. The bottle image design is not mine, I took the design from a user on deviantart named emptysamurai. 

I also had the old crate my laser cutter was shipped in just lying about against the fence because I cant be bothered dragging it away. Some graffiti on that would be nice, so I searched the fallout wiki for in-game graffiti screenshots. I liked the Great Khan designs from New Vegas as they were stencils. So I took outlined some of the images and cut out some stencils on the laser cutter and did some spray painting.

So with the crate pieces propped up and the table set I have a great looking set which in this example really shows off the coaster designs in a fitting setting. All from junk lying around, not a cent spent!