If you are a small business, you need to evaluate how valuable your time is. If you can be spending that time on a task that you would otherwise use to grow your business in another way, wouldn’t it be a better use of your time to do that instead of product photography?

How much would you pay yourself hourly if you were to hire yourself as a product photographer?

How much would you pay yourself hourly if you were to hire yourself to do whatever task you would be doing if you weren’t doing your own product photography?

The point is, your time is valuable, don’t waste it on learning how to do something that you don’t have experience doing. In the end, you will spend all of that time doing it yourself, but then get frustrated and hire a professional anyway! It happens all the time!

Possible Scenario:

24 hours per product x $30 per hour = $720 per product

That is $720 per product that you could be using for other more cost effective purposes!