Not everyone has the luxury of having a speedlight, let alone studio flashes available. Product photography, particularly smaller products, can easily be photographed using nothing more than bright continuous light. The lights don't necessarily have to be professional quality studio lights, as long the light is consistent and bright! A very simple white background (or black) can be put together with some cardboard pieces, paper and clamps.
Camera settings are pretty straight forward - Aperture Priority, F8 with an ISO of 100. These are just starting points, and obviously experimentation is the key to finding out how your particular products photograph in front of the lights that you are using. However, depending on the power of your lights, it might be advisable to put the camera on a tripod if the shutter speed drops under 1/60th. Exposure compensation may be used here, to brighten up the background and help get than bright white background. Consult you camera manual to see how this is done, it is well worth the effort. Use of a black background not only gives the product a different look, it removes shadowing if that is a problem.It is also much easier to do!
Click on this link to a very early Gavin Hoey video and see how easy it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4zca0NH9M&feature=player_detailpage
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