I went into work early this morning so I could do some eBay photography for my chemistry stuff. Just had time to set up the strobes, camera and notebook and it was time to open up the shop. I'll be heading in early tomorrow to start taking photos.
Been using a really nice piece of software for running my cameras - ControlMyNikon - plug a USB cable into your camera body, fire up the software and you have complete control over focus and exposure. There are also some great scripts for doing HDR, time-lapse, burst, focus stacking. The whole nine yards. Russ recently did a major upgrade to version 5 and the feature set is amazing. If you shoot Nikon cameras and use a computer, you should check out tethering and especially ControlMyNikon software. He also has a version for Canon cameras as well as an app for shooting videos with a Nikon but have not checked those out.
I have been doing a lot of time-lapse photography and this is what made ControlMyNikon stand out from the other apps out there.
A bonus for the eBay photography - C.M.N. Pro supports barcodes so I can generate a barcode for each item being sold and print it out. I can then scan it before taking the photo and the item number is saved in the picture file's metadata making it very easy to keep the right picture associated with the right item. Very powerful and very cool...
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