Improving product shots

Still playing with the photo cube and lights

in hopes of getting better Etsy products shots.

I am liking the clean backgrounds

but find I still have to manipulate the photos

in Photoshop Elements just as much as before.

The lights are set to lighten up the back wall

and the cube faces a bright window.

(Still need to work on getting the wrinkles out.)

This will work very well for non-shiny surfaces

not so for all these pieces of metal.

Can you spot me in any of these? LOL

I wasn't totally satisfied with the results,

even after manipulation and thought to try B&W.

These look like they are right out of mid-century

(and earlier) houseware catalogs.

Their Etsy listings will still have full-color views

but I will see how these are as the main photographs.

Has anyone else tried it before?