Ah photography... if anyone has ever checked out my flickr site you can tell I play around a lot with my amateur photos trying to capture what my glass creations look like. Its fun. The more I take, the better they get.
I recently took new shots of a favorite piece of mine that is for sale on Etsy - and I thought about some advice I read on the EGA forum for choosing the 5 pictures to use. The indecision kills me, I take sooo many shots to get a few that I like.
Susan Sheehan (susansheehan.etsy.com) had this great advice - any Etsy sellers out there check this out: think about your 5 pictures in each listing the following way
"Grab their attention with an artsy shot.I love this advice! I totally touch things in the retail environment, and its a fun challenge to use my photography to offer a digital tactile experience :)
Offer it as if they saw it for the first time in a show display.
Pretend they have picked it up, and turned it over. (c'mon we all do it)
Offer a close up.
Offer any other view you can think of."
3 comments:
I've been loving this challenge. Susan has some great advice. Your new photos are awesome, by the way.
It has really made me think about what the customer is looking at- great article Leah and thanks Susan. I may blog about this too. the tips are great :)
I have always loved your photos, Leah; your mobiles are pretty enough to eat! :)
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