What I learned about product photography:

• steaming is better than ironing.
• swabs are better than plastic squeezey things that blow air when you want to clean your digital sensor.
• t-pins, straight pins with glass heads, and bubble wrap can come in handy when you want to add life to your still life.
• computer capture would be better than camera capture…if your computer wanted to capture the photos.
• table-top would be better than floor-top… but if it is on the floor then stretch at the same time in order to get your daily exercise.
• changing the color in photoshop is much easier than trying to make 12 items look wrinkle free, lint free, and positioned exactly the same way (ps: there is a color replacement tool in CS3 that will change the color for you… although still tricky to match the exact color you want… it is ridiculously easy.)
• calling your friend Jon, who knows how to do all this stuff already, is much better than trying to figure it out all by yourself.
• photographing people without clothes is a lot easier than photographing clothes without people.