I guess my new hobby is selling stuff on eBay. I'll probably post more on that some other time. Of course the key to selling things on the internet is pictures! I was having issues with glare, background noise (visually), lighting, and set up. My previous method for pictures was to photograph them on a white piece of foam board. It wasn't the best and I would have to crop every photo to make the background uniform because the board wasn't big enough to take a photo at the angle I wanted without seeing some other part of the house.
Someone saw the troubles I was having and got me the CowboyStudio Photography tent. It also came in a kit with lights and stands but for double the price. Instead, I got two, $10 workshop lights from Wal-Mart and some bulbs from the garage to finish my kit.
OK, you can see that there were some lighting issues to work out at first. The photos of the notecards were taken with incandescent lighting and the photo of the keychain was taken with florescent lighting but I was playing with the height and angle of the lighting. I retook the shots when I felt the lighting was right.
I also tried to iron out the wrinkles from the nylon background but not all of them came out. I didn't want to set the iron too hot and burn my background before I could even use it. So far, the photography tent is working well, even with a point and shoot camera or cell phone camera.
To do: take out the wrinkles in the background and I need to figure out how to do an overhead shot with this tent.
