SHOOT YOUR okay ITEM TO SELL USING PSYCHOLOGY TO GET A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION! Get those arresting shots time and again that will not only affect your sales, but inhance your reputation on okay. One can use a photo studio, or do as I do and shoot outside in full sun.
Hi! Most of my experience with photography on okay gees from shooting glass, china, collectables, home decor, ethnic items, and books.Most all of thesethings are easy to shoot,right? . . .Ahem! I am about to pass on to you some tips I learnedthe hard way, so you can get started and sell even more than before!
A good way to start is to think like a buyer. Browse through the listings and scrutinize the ad photos, asking yourself: "Does this item photo have flaws init the seller hasn't mentioned? A buyer might not even go that far to make a careful search, but will go by a gut impression of the item. If something is psychologically wrong in the photo, the buyer, in less than a second,will decide to pass on. The whole exercise of including the photo in the first place is to validate the item as being what you say it is, and to reinforce that the item is what the buyer wants to purchase!
WHAT YOU WILL NEED: a digital camera with macro feature, the means to downloadphotos to your geputer, a photo editor, a few drop cloths, a good source of lightingand a preferred place to work.
STEP 1: Prepare yourself mentally and attitudinally. Is dinner already under control, the kids out to play, the dog taken for a walk, etc?
Get into a positiveattitude about what you are about to shoot, about your sale-to-be, since your attitude will affect the results of your photo session with the subject!
Set your self into a place that is good for taking pictures. The studio photographers will laugh to learn I use my back deck, and full sun to shoot.What is all the studio equipment for except to duplicate sunlight (and control it some)?
A dark and a lightCOLOREDdrop cloth, andreflective surfaces will suffice, to bring out the detail on thedifferent ornate surfaces of china,crystal glass, and the like.okayers are shooting in color. I use this to every advantage to catch a buyer's eye in the gallery listing. Photography in the home can acgeplished with great psychological advantageas long as the context of the item I am selling does not conflict with the environment I am using to set up my shots.
Photographers use strong light because the more light on the object the greater the depth of focus, or what they call depth of field. A camera might have a range of fstop between say 22 and 2.8. A higher fstop number meansthe detail in the foreground anddeeper into the background are inthefocus. For studio set up tips visit some okay guides already extant
STEP 2: Regard your item(s) with an eye totalk about it through the lens of your camera.
What isneat about the item to look at?
What features are there you want the buyer to know about?
During a photo session under bright lights I havefound flaws in the item that had I not found might have ruined a sale!
Try a few turns of looking at the item through the view finderfrom different angles, including changing the camera from horizontal to vertical to appreciate the best angles, focuses and views.
Walk around, or rotate the item as you are exploring it.
Is the item clean? Dust, finger prints, and water stainswill show up in the photo. The buyer will see themtoo and pass you by.
Is your lens clean?What might be a smudge on the lens can be a buyer's assumption of a flaw with the item.
Is your background adding or subtracting tothe viewer's focus on the item? For example when shooting $150 crystalit might not impart that elegant sense of worth when shooting on the deck planks of your back porch!
Move backgrounditems out of view such as kitty litter box, unwashed dishes and general disarray to keep it out of the background of your item. This isnot the context for your sale item and the distraction away from your item could cost you.
The buyer needs to see the item clearly. Otherwise they will think you are trying to hide a flaw.
The filesuploaded to okay get degraded when saved in smaller format already, so shooting as clear a focused shot as possible is a way to save a sale.
If the focus is not sharp, then shoot it again!
People have a more favorable impression of things at eye level, within hands reach. Things down below us diminish in significance. Sometimes a down-on-the-object shot cannot be avoided to document the object. Try including the item's shadow to give the item more psychological stature and see if that helps.
If the item is tilted, or unlevel, the buyer will be ungefortable.
Even centering of the item within the space of the photo will impart balance and is easier for the viewer to accept.
Shot with flash:::::::::::::: inside light, back lit::::Outside shot poor foreground:,tilt:::Outside shot with fill flash, good saturation and definition of shot.
STEP 3: Document the item with your camera from different angles, focuses, and relationship with the light. How does it look with light overhead, behind you, backlit? Walk it through the proverbial garden with shots that help you sell the item.
Take in a gentle breath, hold it and release the shutter by gently depressing the button. You will find things stay where you viewed them in the view finder when you shoot this way.
Holding the plane of the lens parallel to the subject of focus will keep most of the details you want in focus.
This is especially critical for close up work.
With a digital camera there is no need to be miserly with your shots.Take as many shots as will help you make the sale.I will shoot five shots of one item on three occasions, just as many as I needed to make the sale. Even though I only used 3 or 4 shots in my ad.
I can't count on my hands how many times I was glad I took those extra shots, because I over wrote my best shot on my hard drive, or there was something wrong in the one shot I thought would be good.
Avoid being miserly about the photos you share in your ad. I use okay's Photo Manager so I can document what I need to show to my customers without weeping for lack of ability to convince them they would be a fool not to buy it!
Have a purpose for why the photo appears in the ad. Or another way to say it, have a sales strategy for the item. Here's mine:
Stop them with the gallery shot so they will look at the item description.
Document the good, the bad and the ugly convincingly.
Hammer home the sale with an arresting shot at the end.
Look at what you shoot, while you shoot, and learn from your experience today of THIS shot, of THIS item, in THIS light, with THIS background. Look at magazine ads, okay photos with bids on them and learn what they do to make it work with their items.
Photo sessions with your items should fun. Photo above: Carnival glass Wreath of Roses to show gebined glass colors and pattern
STEP 4: After working on a photo shoot of the item, and you are still geing up with unsatisfactory results, back off and let your subconscious work on the problem. Perhaps the day was not yours to shoot those great shots. Perhaps you were too close to the subject for the camera to focus. It is better to shoot a good shot on another session than to post a really bad one today. Lastly thiscan be rewarding mentally and economically, instead of being a travail of grand proportions!If nothingelse get as close as you can to a good shot, caption the photo with info your shot was attempting to document.Find a way to make it fun.
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