Why not?

So I sat in front of my iMac and cranked up Photo Booth. Then with a nice neutral colored backdrop to smooth things out, I started snapping. Using the iMac’s built in iSight camera with Photo Booth, gives you 640 x 480 pixel image that actually turns out quite sharp and nicely defined.

Depending on what you shoot of course…

The next step is to open the images in PhotoShop or another image editor and check the color balance, levels, and work your magic to make sure the picture looks snappy. It has to snap right off the page.

You know what I mean, right?

Of course you’re incredibly limited to just what’s in front of your iMac at that moment. In this case, as you can see, it’s that dude also known as The Sell Photos Online Dude. But… if you have a camera that you can move around, then that opens the whole world up…

And then you can start snapping celebrity photos everywhere you go.

Right?

The only things I wish Photo Booth came with would be a longer timer (it gives you about 3 seconds before it SNAPS a shot of you), and maybe a remote, for those shots you want to take on random, or when you’re playing with the dog and can’t be beside the iMac to click the fire button.

Now let’s think of the possibilities here…

These shots took about 20 minutes to shoot. Imagine if you were to cut out the backdrop, leaving just the figure, and do a whole series of unusual facial gestures… Let’s say, elegant and business type shots, or ‘man in distress’ type shots, or ‘dude with a great idea’ shots…

Don’t you think they’d be of an interest to someone who wants to add a particular feeling to their sales page? In fact, this is what a friend asked me just recently…

“One thing I have trouble locating is shots of people on a white background, or a background that makes for easy cutting out of a given subject. You know what I mean?”

Is this giving you some ideas or what?

And, thinking of most sales pages and websites, no one wants a super high resolution picture… After all, you want your website to load fast.

Small punchy images that get an idea across as the viewer scans down the page…

You could easily do a series of 50 good facial actions. It’d take some time to edit them in Photoshop of course… BUT now think of those images on a CD or DVD… You could duplicate this CD and sell it as a package or on eBay for $20 or even much more… And you could sell this CD over and over again (you could even automate the whole process using Auction Acrobat ).

Is this filling your brain full of amazing ideas?

Think I’m going to have to shoot a few more celebrity photos and see if it works!

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