AI Skincare Photography for Ebay

Killing Reflections On Glass Serum Bottles

eBay's gallery slot rewards a plain, uncluttered first image, and pure white is the safest choice because the thumbnail sits on a white search results page. The problem is that a glass dropper bottle or a chrome pump acts as a curved mirror: a bare white background bounces a bright rim around the bottle and your lens shows up as a dark oval on the front of the glass.

Practical fixes that work for skincare specifically:

• Light through diffusion from both sides so the reflections become two soft vertical bands rather than hot dots.
• Shoot through a hole in a white card so the lens reflection reads as white, not black.
• Angle the bottle a few degrees off dead-on so the label curves toward the camera and the specular band slides to the shoulder.
• Wipe the bottle with a lint-free cloth first. Zoom at 1600 pixels shows every fingerprint and dust speck on acrylic jars.
• Keep amber, cobalt and frosted bottles slightly underexposed so the glass color survives instead of blowing out to grey.

Photographing Seals, Batch Codes And Expiry

Because eBay does not allow used cosmetics, and because premium skincare is a common counterfeit target, your supporting images carry more weight than they would for a t-shirt. Most listings allow up to twelve photos, and for skincare you should use nearly all of them rather than posting three pretty angles.

Plan the set: front label straight on, ingredient panel, the printed batch or lot code, the base of the box or tube crimp, the sealed cap or unopened cellophane, the pump or dropper still at full height, and the item next to its outer carton. Shoot the code and ingredient panel close and parallel to the sensor so the small type stays legible under zoom, and light them flat to avoid embossed text disappearing into shadow. Do not retouch a code out or blur it. Buyers read those characters to check freshness and origin.