correctmyphotos

I have a Stangl Bird collection that I am thinking about selling. So I did a litte research on eBay to see what was being offered. Since I have never sold nor purchased anything on eBay I really haven’t spent any time looking at how items where being presented. I was somewhat surprised (maybe I shouldn’t be) at the quality of the photos people posted to sell their stuff. For the most part the quality ranges for poor to terrible. In particular, the colors of the items (in this case ceramic birds) were dull and washed out. Okay, so I am more sensitive than most when look at photo colors, but how can anyone purchase a Stangl bird where color is very important by looking at a dull lifeless image? Here is an example of what I mean.

eBay Photo Example. eBay photo on left. Color Corrected with CorrectPhoto on right

 The photo on the left is a photo of a listing on eBay. I color corrected the photo with CorrectPhoto’s OneClick (I clicked on the gray concrete background and adjusted the brightness and saturation.) The colors are certainly better and the dullness has been reduced making it a better photo.  Even with better color the photo still is not very good.  The cracks in the background is distracting and one could argue that the perspective of the shot could be better.

How do you take better eBay photos?
That is a question I spent a little time on this weekend and I think I have come up with a simple approach that should work for almost everyone that wants to sell an item or product online. And, it won’t break the bank. I will layout the approach in upcoming posts, but here is an example photo of the same Stangl bird that is in my collection.

Wayne's Bird Photo

Okay, so this post is a teaser. The next post will tell you how you can take better photos for selling online.

Wayne  www.correctphoto.com