**EDIT** I'm going to try to make a photo to do and to don't list - if you have any tips or ideas, let me know!
Please bare with me if this post doesn't make much sense haha, I'm taking full doses of pain medication and it's making me a little drowsy haha.
I've been seeing a lot of new business's facebook pages recently, where they only have a few items up, and I guess this is kind of a message to them?
Pictures are incredibly important for online businesses. If you don't have pictures, you're not going to sell anything. Though there is also a balance - if you have 10 pictures of each item, and most of them are the same or similar views, people are going to get bored flipping through them and move on to the next page.
But one thing I've seen a lot of is bad quality pictures. If a picture is bad quality (dark, blurry, etc.) that translates to the customer as the item pictured is also bad quality.
It's ok to occasionally have bad quality pictures, like if your camera is broken for a little while, or you don't have good lighting but need to take pictures right then (I HATE taking pictures without natural lighting, but that's only available during certain hours...).
But if you don't have a camera - borrow one. Except for the new fancy phones, a phone camera is not going to cut it. I've seen a lot taken with what seems like a phone camera, and the person tried to get a close up, but most phone cameras can't do clear shots of stuff up close, so you can't see any detail.
One of the main ways people shop is by looking at and holding things. Online shopping doesn't have this advantage, so you need to make up for it through pictures. You have to have pictures good enough so the person feels like they're really looking right at it. And if you don't have pictures like that, you're just not going to sell well, that's all it comes down to.
Maybe instead of just ranting about the poor quality of photography online, you could give some tips on how to do better. I didn't realize how bad my photography was until I developed relationships with other sellers. They gave me a lot of tips to help me out. And now, I get compliments on my photography.
ReplyDeleteI'm not disagreeing with your observations one bit. Just saying that instead of pointing out other's faults, maybe you could try to help them out.
Again, the pain meds effect my thinking haha. A photography tip list is actually something I was planning to do, but I was about to fall asleep at the keyboard. I LOVE photography, of all kinds, and pretty much anything that goes along with it.
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