"Product photography" is a very broad subject and even means different things to different people, but personally I think that you will struggle to get anywhere near enough space in a garage to cope with having a textured or deliberately reflective background, or to use gels to light it.•
The important things to know are…
- do you want the BG to be seen as such, texture etc?
- should it have a reflective surface whatever its colour?
- what is the maximum size of the products you want to shoot?
- do you plan to use colour gels?
they want several shades/option for differentiation.
Changing the background in PP sounds the easiest, but I’ve never done it!
I don't know what you have in terms of software, but this is my way of doing it in Photoshop when using a PC (Slightly different with a Mac).It is mainly food / drink photography.
For the overhead shots (square for instagram) I am sorted.
But the client also wants 16:9 with the product at one side, allowing company logo and product description to take up approx. 2/3rds of the image.
So near horizontal shot. My garage wall (wide aperture to blur) works for one, but they want several shades/option for differentiation.
Changing the background in PP sounds the easiest, but I’ve never done it!