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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…
A few days ago, I wrote about . There’s nothing more irritating than a picture that has an almost horizontal horizon. On the other hand, there are times when you may want to throw that rule out the window and take a nice, crooked picture. This basketball picture to the…
NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month – is a kind of social pledge to stick with your blog and faithfully publish something every day for a month. Although I’ve been pretty good about maintaining this site since it launched in July, my life gets hectic from time to time and…
Two weeks ago, I read an article in the NY Times that examined the future of point and shoot digital cameras. The author suggested that as dSLR cameras became more popular and camera phones increased in quality, point and shoot cameras would soon fade away. Your average user would find…
My old student and partner over at Olinda Gibbons Photography is starting a photography program at Kean University this fall. For some reason unknown to me, the program requires her to . Seems strange to me, but whatever. They’re relatively cheap on eBay, so I picked up what was advertised…
Although this isn’t a web design site and I usually write about web design on another site (Nerds at Work), this little tip should be of special interest to photographers. WordPress is a great all around website platform. If you don’t know how to custom design a template (like I…
