









Go-To Lighting For Portrait Product Photography
- Regular price
- $299.00
- Sale price
- $299.00
- Regular price
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Learn the exact lighting setup we use for portrait-style product shoots — the one brands request again and again. This short, high-impact video lesson walks you through how to create a clean, commercial-grade look using just one strobe, then builds up to a multi-light setup step-by-step.
Perfect for content creators, product photographers, and small business owners looking to confidently shoot portraits with a studio-style edge.
Inside This Lesson:
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Our exact portrait lighting formula used in client work
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How to build a lighting setup from 1 to multiple strobes
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Lighting placement and modifiers
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Tips for working with models and products in the same frame
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Commercial-quality results from a simple setup
- Understanding my portrait camera settings
You’ll Also Get:
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Instant access to the video lesson
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Real-time breakdown of how we build the scene
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Lifetime access to revisit anytime
This is the go-to lighting setup we rely on in our studio — now it's yours to copy, tweak, and build from.
No fluff. Just real, repeatable results.
✔ Product photographers
✔ Content creators
✔ Freelancers & small studios
✔ Anyone who wants to communicate more confidently with clients
We want you to be completely happy with your order, and we understand that sometimes things don’t work out.
Merch (backdrops not included):
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If the item is damaged or faulty, please contact us within 2 days of delivery with photos, and we’ll organise a full refund or replacement at no cost to you.
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Course Features
200+ Lessons


Lighting & Styling Formulas

Product, Food & Portrait

Editing & Retouching Tips

Pricing & Client Workflows

Email & Proposal Templates

Cheat Sheets & Resources

Private Community Access

The Complete Content Creation Course Curriculum
Natural vs Studio Lighting
Understand the pros and cons of natural, constant, and strobe lighting. You'll learn how to manipulate light regardless of your setup and achieve professional-looking results from home or in-studio.
Strobe vs Continuous Lights
These lessons break down the key differences, how each impacts your shoot, and which lighting type suits product vs food vs model photography. Includes real shoot examples with each.
Light Modifiers Made Easy
Softboxes, bounce cards, reflectors, and diffusion — what they are, how to use them, and the specific results they create. You'll build confidence with light shaping.
How to Build Multi-Light Setups
From one light to five, we walk you through layering light sources with control. Learn how to add depth, drama, and dimension to your sets — no guesswork involved.
Lighting Cheat Sheet (Downloadable)
Our go-to quick reference guide. Includes light positioning, power and camera settings, and setup diagrams for a wide range of creative looks.
Spotlight & Gradient Lighting
Step-by-step tutorials showing how to create controlled spotlights and dreamy gradients using flags, cutouts, coloured gels, and more. Great for campaigns and hero images.
Product & Food Styling Fundamentals
Learn how to create balanced compositions using props, textures, shape, and spacing. We walk you through the exact thought process behind scroll-stopping sets — from clean minimal to styled chaos.
DIY Set Builds & Backgrounds
We show you how to build affordable, high-impact sets using MDF boards, tiles, and even insulation foam. Create cake bars, mini jungle scenes, and full tabletop environments from scratch.
Colour, Texture & Visual Flow
Discover how colour theory affects mood and branding. You’ll learn how to create harmony, contrast, and movement with colour blocking, layering, and focal points.
Styling with Shadows, Reflections & Glass
Learn techniques for working with reflective products like glassware, jars, and metallic packaging — and how to use shadows intentionally as part of your visual design.
Pro Styling Tricks: Ice, Cream, Shadows & More
Our go-to toolkit for faking the perfect scene — including how to create realistic ice, whipped cream, condensation, shadows, drips and more that hold up under hot lights and high-res cameras. These hacks save time and make your styling look effortless.
Styling Trends & Output Boosters
Use one-angle styling, composition and layout variations to maximise your output with less effort. These techniques are designed to impress clients and streamline your workflow.
Commercial Product Photography Essentials
Learn how to shoot everyday products in a studio environment — from vitamins and candles to skincare and more! We cover lighting setups, backdrops, lens choices, and how to create clean, versatile images that suit ecommerce and campaign briefs.
Creative Sets Design & Floating Products
Learn how to craft surreal, playful and gravity-defying scenes. We break down our floating setups, whimsical and in depth set builds, and creative storytelling techniques that help your work stand out. We cover sets like fake waterfalls, jungles, kitchen scenes and more!
Food Photography in Restaurants
Learn our shoot-day process for on-location restaurant content, including how we work around natural light, simplify gear, and deliver polished content that chefs love.
Beverage Photography
From sparkling soda to coffee cream pours, you'll learn how to capture drinks that look fresh, clean, and delicious. Includes drink styling, lighting for glass, and managing condensation.
Water-Based Product Scenes
Use coloured gels, ripples, and backlighting to create bold, moody product scenes with water. Great for supplements, hydration brands, and hero product storytelling.
Ecommerce vs Campaign Photography
Understand how to deliver both: fast-turnaround ecommerce imagery and high-production campaign content. We show you how to shoot, price, and package each one effectively.
Photoshop Basics
Start strong with the tools that matter: selections, layers, cleanups, and retouching techniques you’ll actually use. You’ll be editing with confidence after just a few lessons.
Gradient Backgrounds
Learn how to create soft, professional gradient backdrops using both in-camera lighting and Photoshop editing. We share the full technique breakdown for both.
Product Cleanup & Background Control
From dust and creases to messy imperfections, we teach you how to clean up and polish your images to commercial standard.
Colour Grading & Batch Editing
Our approach to editing multiple images from the same set, using reference files, adjustment layers, and presets for consistent, vibrant content.
Compositing Made Simple
Combine multiple shots into one seamless image. This is how we shoot levitating products, fake sky sets, and create smooth transitions between scenes.
Creative Overlays & Enhancements
Want to add sparkles, light leaks, star filters or dust? We’ll teach you the exact way we enhance creative shots in Photoshop without over-editing.
Templates, Downloads & Guides
You’ll get access to retainer contracts, shoot planners, project trackers, pricing calculators, and client email templates. All editable and ready to use.
Gear Lists & Lighting Cheat Sheets
See the exact gear we use for shoots — cameras, lenses, strobes, tripods, and modifiers — plus cheat sheets for studio lighting and modifiers.
Retouching Brief & Run Sheet Templates
Make your life easier with downloadable guides for managing retouchers and keeping shoot days on track. Includes our standard timelines and shoot day maps.
Intake Forms & Client Workflows
We share our exact intake forms (built in Dubsado) and project workflows — including how we brief clients, request approvals, and handle revisions
Portfolio Builder + Instagram Toolkit
Build a scroll-stopping portfolio using our Canva template, and use our social media content calendar to stay consistent without burning out.
Client Communication Made Easy
Gain confidence with every email you send. This resource includes real scenarios, email templates, and scripts for tricky situations like quoting, setting boundaries, following up, and giving feedback — all written to sound professional and human.
Setting Up a Business
From business structure and ABN setup to banking, invoicing, and software — we make the admin side of business clear and manageable.
Contracts, Licensing & Usage Rights
Understand what goes in a strong contract, how to price usage, and how to protect your work with licensing clauses that make you money.
Our Pricing Strategy + Retainer Breakdown
You’ll learn how to price confidently, increase your minimums, and offer retainers that keep income flowing. Includes downloadable templates.
How to Get & Keep Clients
We share the outreach strategies, proposal techniques, and repeat client systems we’ve used to grow our company.
Boundaries & Burnout Protection
Learn how to set expectations, protect your time, and communicate confidently with clients — without losing your creative energy.
Working Smarter, Not Harder
Build structure into your business that protects your time, keeps clients happy, and helps you take on more — without burning out.
No gatekeeping, just easy techniques to elevate your photos.
Before learning strobe lighting
After learning strobe lighting
Before the Styling Recipe
After the Styling Recipe
Still have some questions?
Honestly? It’s not about being better, it’s just different.
Creative Scoop isn’t a one-size-fits-all formula. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure for content creators who want real skills, flexible strategies, and honest insights from people who’ve actually done the work (and trust us, we’ve done the work).
We went from shooting in our parents’ garage to investing in our own commercial studio. We’ve built a team, scaled multiple businesses, and made a million mistakes so you don’t have to. What we bring is experience, well earnt wisdom, and a blueprint that’s worked for us.
We believe learning can come from YouTube, a great mentor, or a messy shoot day — and this course is just another layer. One packed with structure, shortcuts, and behind-the-scenes thinking that helped us build a content business that actually pays.