Arguably the most difficult of the photographic disciplines, tabletop photography is too often treated as a necessary after thought with results that reflect that. To create the kind of images you see in high-class magazines and catalogues is a special skill indeed. You can’t just plonk a product off the shelf or out of the box, onto a flat surface and point a camera and a couple of lights at it and expect miracles…
It takes an intimate knowledge of lighting and reflecting techniques, composition, and parallax corrections to create that stunning pack shot. It is a highly specialist area that many world class photographers specialize in exclusively.