How to Photograph Your Furniture

There’s no arguing the value of professional-quality photographs of your work, whether you want them for marketing, social media, your own record, or perhaps the Fine Woodworking Gallery. However, the cost can be prohibitive, and scheduling a shoot for the crunch time before you deliver a piece can be a challenge. That’s assuming there’s even a suitable photographer in your area. In this article, I’ll show you how to document your own work without a studio or elaborate photographic gear—in fact, with little more than a quality smartphone camera and natural light. To illustrate the advice in the article, I took photos in places ranging from a basement room to a loading dock. And although before becoming a full-time furniture maker I was a professional photographer and still own a high-end digital camera, I took all the finished shots with my iPhone. I did some minor color and…