{"id":244,"date":"2026-07-08T21:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8765\/10-photography-tips-that-make-your-listings-sell\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:10:53","slug":"10-photography-tips-that-make-your-listings-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/10-photography-tips-that-make-your-listings-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"10 photography tips that make your listings sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buyers cannot hold your item in their hands \u2014 your photos have to do the holding for them. After analysing thousands of successful listings, the pattern is unmistakable: listings with clear, honest, well-lit photos attract more watchers, more bids, and higher final prices.<\/p>\n<h2>The quick wins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoot in soft, indirect daylight \u2014 next to a window beats any lamp.<\/li>\n<li>Use a plain background: a white wall, a sheet of card, a wooden table.<\/li>\n<li>Fill the frame. The item should take up 80% of the photo.<\/li>\n<li>Show every angle: front, back, sides, top, underside.<\/li>\n<li>Photograph flaws close-up. A honest scratch photo builds more trust than a hidden one destroys.<\/li>\n<li>Include one photo with a common object for scale.<\/li>\n<li>Wipe the lens. Seriously \u2014 it is the cheapest upgrade there is.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the camera steady: lean on a chair or stack of books if you have no tripod.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid filters. Colour accuracy matters when money changes hands.<\/li>\n<li>Lead with your strongest image \u2014 it is what shows on the search results card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The first photo decides everything<\/h2>\n<p>Your primary photo is your shop window. On a busy search results page it has less than a second to earn a click, so make it the cleanest, most complete view of the item \u2014 and save the detail shots for photos two through six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buyers cannot hold your item in their hands \u2014 your photos have to do the holding for them. After analysing thousands of successful listings, the pattern is unmistakable: listings with clear, honest, well-lit photos attract more watchers, more bids, and higher final prices. The quick wins Shoot in soft, indirect daylight \u2014 next to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitemile.fr\/auction-theme-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}