As I’m starting to get new shirt colors and designs for Gather No Moss, I really need to be able to take nice pictures of the shirts. Initially, I just had my wife take a picture of me in each shirt, but I’m not happy with that quality. And I’d like to take the pictures myself. I have a friend who does product photography on the side, but I can’t afford to pay him every time I add a new product, which will hopefully be happening very regularly. Remember, I’m bootstrapping as much as I can.
Yesterday I thought about how I could set up a repeatable process for getting good pictures of my products, with good lighting and a nice background. I was going to just set up an area where I could put a shirt on a hanger and get a good picture. Then my wife mentioned getting a mannequin. That thought had never crossed my mind. I spent an hour looking online at mannequins.
Talk about an industry that I had never thought about before! Wow, they have mannequins for everything: male, female, child, adult, size, shape, head, no head, arms, no arms, torso, full body, “busty,” etc. I may still do this without using mannequins, but it’s nice to know that I have options.
Brian