What comes in the box with my coffee grinder?
Amazon seller
My main photo shows the grinder assembled. My second photo answers the question a buyer might still have.
The beans are part of the scene. The handle is in the box.
A cup and a few beans make a nice picture of my grinder in use, but they leave room for a misunderstanding. For the catalog I start with the assembled grinder on a plain background. In the next shot I lay out the body, the detachable crank and the grounds cup exactly as I pack them.
I take a picture of the actual contents
I start with an empty shipping box and take out only the parts a buyer will receive. Then I photograph them together at the same scale. I nearly used a closer shot of the cup, but it made the cup look as tall as the body when the two images sat next to each other. A single overhead frame answers the size question without asking the buyer to guess.
I check the joins at phone size
I clean the metadata from copies of both photos in RemoveDog and compare each preview with its original. At phone size I can see whether the steel cup disappears into the background or the crank is cut off. My final gallery shows what the grinder looks like first and what the buyer will unpack second.
A final pass with the description open
Before I add that frame to the gallery I read the contents line aloud while pointing at the photograph: body, crank, grounds cup. The beans in my kitchen aren't on the list. I keep the styled breakfast picture for a later slot and the contents picture next to the main image. If I change the accessories I pack, I know exactly which frame and which line need replacing together.