Yesterday was a big day. First of all, it was my birthday. Second of all, I worked all morning on a new feature article about shooting products for eBay and building a diffusion panel for product shots. Stay tuned for this article in a week or two. To demonstrate this lighting and shooting technique, I decided to photograph my Bolex 16mm motion picture camera, which I am selling this month. Here is one of the shots I took today. Shooting shiny metal objects is tricky, but with a diffusion panel, a bounce card and some daylight, the results can look pretty good. I did crop this shot in Photoshop and used the healing brush to get rid of some schmutz on the backdrop. Generally, I don’t like to monkey around with my images, but this shot really benefitted from some cropping. What do you think?