Simple 360 Product Photography

When shopping online, how many times you see a picture, and  wish you could see the product from all the sides? If you are like me, then this happens quite often as you normally want to inspect a product like you normally do in a shop by looking at it from every angle.

In this instructable, I will show you how easy it is to shoot, create and publish an interactive 360 degree product rotations with almost no budget at all and probably in less than 10 minutes (with some experience).

In a nutshell, you will need to shoot a video of your product spinning, then convert it using shoogleit.com into an interactive video and finally embed it into your auction (EBay, etc).

Please do let me know what you think and please show us your finished shoogles by adding comments below. Many Thanks.

Ps. Shoogle means to shake, sway, or rock back and forth, a rocking motion, shake. Dialect chiefly Scot - Scottish word.

see example below:

http://www.shoogleit.com/308-0_Bathers%20Sculpture

Step 1 What You Need

1. A webcam or a video camera.
2. Some lights - the more the merrier
3. White cardboard
4. Turn table or rotating surface.

The video camera can be any resolution, I have done quite a few with a $15 webcam but we do recommend a high quality camera for best results. In the next steps I will show you how to set the lights and the camera.

You need a white cardboard if you want that Apple white abstract look that everyone seems to be copying.

As for the turn table, this can be anything like a lazy Susan, an old record player, or something that spins.  You can find lots on Amazon and Google products. I got my lazy Susan table from Amazon UK for something something like $15 dollars. If you don't have any budget then just use a pin to hold the centre of the cardboard.

Comments

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Please let me know if you have any problems or get stuck at any point, also let me know what you hate and love about shoogleit or if anything needs changing.

Cheers,
Stefano
Shoogleit.com team