Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: Peachpit Press June 18, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0321349229
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321349224
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
It's a simple fact of selling on eBay: better product shots directly translate into higher bids and greater profits.
Shooting for Dollars: Simple Photo Techniques for More Profitable eBay Auctions provides detailed, comprehensive, easy-to-understand advice, guidelines, and instruction that will assist both new and experienced eBayers through every step necessary to produce consistent, accurate, appealing and effective visual listings.
Shooting for Dollars covers, in a logical fashion, everything eBayers will need to know about taking product shots and posting them in auction listings, including:
- Buying the right digital camera appropriate for eBay photography * Assembling a shooting studio out of commonly available household items or inexpensive photographic equipment Getting the right exposure, focus and color without fuss
- How and when to use a flatbed scanner instead of a digital camera
- How to setup and shoot great shots of a wide range of typical products
- Effective photographic lighting the easy way
- Easily organizing, correcting, improving and perfecting your pictures with software
- Preparing and posting photographs of your products on eBay
- Developing a workflow for quick, easy and efficient assembly line-type product photography
This is a step-by-step, solutions-oriented book that gives online auction sellers all the information and confidence they will need for shooting great product shots. It covers everything essential to digital photography for eBay, including practical tips and tricks, shared experiences by successful eBayers, graphic before-and-after shots that demonstrate how and how not to take photos, and practical assistance in working with eBay's photographic rules and procedures.
Daniel Grotta and
Sally Wiener Grotta, two of the top experts of digital photography and "PC Magazine's" digital camera gurus, have been buying and selling on eBay since 1998. In addition, they teach eBay digital photography workshops at the renown traveling eBay University. "Shooting for Dollars" combines the Grottas' expertise in digital photography and their personal and professional experience with eBay, to provide readers with invaluable guidance in creating more profitable auction listings.
Reader ReviewsI got this book a nights ago and read a few pages a night. Then a few minutes ago I went on-line to e-Bay looking for a RAID controller for my web server. The picture of the first unit was so dark that it almost looked like a big black blob. The image was way underexposed. You can see exactly what I'm talking about in the center picture on page 62. The second unit had a picture taken using a flash. It was a straight on shot that caused the light from the flash to bounce straight back at the camera. The entire center of the item was pure white from the reflected light. All you could see was the few items at each end of the card. You can see exactly what I'm talking about in the picture on page 91 of this book. A little simple math. To shoot either pictures of the RAID controllers would take say a minute. To shoot a much better picture might take three minutes. That's two additional minutes. Let's say that the better picture caused the item to sell for $5 more. That's $5 for two minutes. That's equivalent to $150 an hour. That's pretty good pay. There are lots of good books on photography. This one talks about the standard photographic stuff, but explains in simple terms how it will help sell the item on e-Bay.
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