If you’re offering your farm goods online, attention-capturing, crisp, stunning images are everything. In our highly visual society – where you have less than one second to snag someone’s attention before they scroll past blazingly fast – mediocre images no longer cut it. And that can be hard if your specialty is colored chicken egg breeding, not photography! I want to help by showing some very simple staging techniques that work well and produce absolutely darling snapshots that social media is going to devour. Let’s take some eye-grabbing egg pictures!
Eye-Grabbing Egg Pictures Begin with Basic Supplies
The images in this article were taken with a Cannon EOS Rebel T7 with the stock lens it came with and nothing extra added. I photographed everything on an overcast day, which helps the camera capture subtle differences between blue, green, and bluey-green eggs. I’ll link to the simple supplies used in each shot, many of which you may already own. (The farmhousey décor around your house can double as egg photo props and for these pics I’ve simply raided my kitchen.)
Ice Cream Egger Eggs
If you have a memorably named hatching egg line, I encourage you to stage wildly vibrant photo shoots that are going to make people pause and drool! Sometimes this can be accomplished by playing with the fact that eggs are food and you can sweeten them up to dessert status. (It totally works because custard is just ice cream made with egg yolks and almost all dessert recipes call for eggs!)
Here we have sugared up the visuals by adding jimmies candy sprinkles in only warm color tones, opposite the cooler blue and green egg shades and mint ice cream scoop. This simple combination of warm & cool color tones together produces a memorable image.
Candy Sprinkle Cupcake Eggs
These are 6 of the same eggs arranged in a different way. I’ve used a stack of 3 white paper baking cups to hold the speckled eggs and covered everything with Wilton confetti candy sprinkles.
I removed the red, white and green Christmasy colors from the candy sprinkle mix because I wanted shades that were closer to springtime birthday colors. Since more people buy hatching eggs in the spring, using white dishes and springy colors will mean your images feel fresh and on-point for that season.
Add Interesting Angles
As you take pictures, don’t just take plain front-on shots. When you go back to review your work, you’ll find detailed close ups and angled images end up being the most interesting. It is handy to have a mix of funky shots and close ups that show just enough to coax the viewer to pause and look.
Confetti Layer Eggs
The same eggs (plus two more) are now in the Henlay display board with the same Wilton confetti sprinkles. This is a simpler, more minimalist shot but the candy sprinkles still make it feel deliciously fun.
An arrangement of pretty eggs with playful colors and the unexpected inclusion of candy sprinkles helps the viewer to take notice. This is going to be an image she pins and saves because it is different than the eggs-on-a-kitchen-towel-photographed-at-night pics overcrowding the internet.
The Wisdom of White Display Pieces
The color white evokes thoughts of purity and cleanliness; two words that clients would want to have associated with the hatching eggs they are buying. White base pieces enhance the natural color of your eggs by giving a perfectly neutral background against which they can shine. The eye cannot help but be drawn to your colorful eggs! Even white egg cartons have the same effect. (afflink)
What Supplies Am I Using?
The 11 inch x 7 inch white ceramic plate came from Home Goods and is nothing special – any solid white, flat ceramic platter of a similar size will do! Henlay made the white egg display I’m using. They are both sitting on this extra small white-topped side table. The confetti sprinkles and rainbow jimmies are both made by Wilton with certain colors removed. (You can buy specialty confetti, pastel jimmies, sherbet jimmies, spring mix and other cute colors, too!) This article has a list of links to other cute displays and even more ideas for staging cute social media pictures. (afflinks)
Putting Your Own Twist on Your Pics
This article describes the importance of naming your hatching egg lines and crafting visual content that communicates the uniqueness of your breeding project. Hatching egg photos should be playful and evoke the excitement that fluffy, newly-hatched colored egg layer chicks bring. It really is like a birthday party in a way! (And searching for kids birthday party décor ideas on Pinterest can give you some brilliant ideas when it comes to staging your own eggs in unseen new ways!)
The Importance of Adding a Logo to Your Images
Hatching egg scammers are looking for any pretty image they can post online to trick people into sending them money to “ship eggs”. The last thing you want is for your farm name to be associated with any of that behavior. Add a logo or watermark to your images to discourage this type of opportunistic thieving.
Keep the Pictures Coming
As the season progresses and the egg colors your girls lay naturally begin to lighten, you need fresh images to show potential buyers. This is the perfect excuse to out-do yourself again with a whole new batch of incredible photos! Be sure to read how saving the image with a keyword-rich name can drive buyers to your farm page for years to come.
The Best Part of Egg Selling!
Taking beautifully staged egg pictures is SO MUCH FUN! Seeing the dreamy pastel or bold olive and chocolate tones practically popping off the screen produces such a sense of excitement and pride in a job well done that you can’t help but be excited to share it with the world. I hope these tips on crafting eye-grabbing egg pictures encourages you to feel proud to post your beautiful offerings online!
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