Monthly Archives: January 2011
What happened to ? I don’t know why I went to Amazon the other day looking for them, but I couldn’t find them. When I eventually found a link to them on Amazon, they’re listed as “Currently unavailable,” and they don’t know when they’ll be back. Hmm… guess it’s time…
One of the problems with photography is that you always want more gear. Some things are must-haves (a good telephoto zoom, a good normal zoom, maybe a good prime lens), while others are toys that would be nice to play around with every once in a while. Or, maybe you’re…
Earlier in the week, I started sharing some tips for how to by improving the quality of the photos that you use in those auctions. In case you missed one of the tips, here’s a quick re-cap of the four tips from this week. . This is simple, but important….
Maybe this is more like a tip to , but tip #4: embed a flickr Slideshow into your auction. This is a set of pictures that I took for an Ogre Kingdoms army that I sold on eBay a while ago. The item is hand-painted miniatures, and you’d assume that…
A third tip for : play around with off camera flash. If you want to get serious about product photography and take some real nice shots of the stuff you’re selling, you need to learn how to move the flash off your camera and set up a real lighting scheme….
The second tip for : don’t use direct flash. This tip assumes that you own a dSLR camera, like a Canon Rebel T2i, and an external speedlight, like a Canon Speedlite 430EX II. While you can spend months or years learning how to design off-camera lighting, there’s a quick and…
The first tip on : use a clean background. You’re stuff isn’t going to look good against a busy backdrop. It won’t look good on your dirty carpet. Nor will it look good on a really grainy wood table. Find a clean, simple backdrop to use. In the picture to…
Got some junk in your basement that you want to sell? Well, eBay is a great place to do it. But if you want people to pay attention to your auctions and bid on them, you’ll probably want some decent quality pictures to go along with them. A lot of…
This is a reposting from my old blog, Life of Brian. It highlights a service (Slideshare) that you can use if you want to embed a photo slideshow onto a free WordPress.com website. While there are plenty of tools out there that let you create free slideshows for websites, a…
Yesterday, I wrote about part of my . Here it is in a nut-shell: “Reject” all of the crap, pressing the “X” button to give the picture a rejection flag. Rate all of the potentially useful pictures. Each photo that might be useful in the future gets 1 star, and…