Edit to a small file for online ! ! !
EDIT TO A SMALL FILE FOR ONLINE ! ! !
One more time in case you missed it.
Resolution on a computer monitor is pretty low. High res. photo files do nothing except tie up bandwidth and take forever to load.
Forum formats don't allow replies until all the photos are loaded on the thread. If you're posting a photo that's six times the width of the screen, you're going to screw up the format for the text. I don't want to scroll across a screen to read a post. And I don't want to wait fifteen minutes to view a photo of your EBR draped across a stack of your dirty laundry. Think about "setting" -- photograph the GUN, not the pile of crap that is your living space.
Neutral background.
Guns are pretty high contrast items and so a "dark" background and low contrast lighting works.
Use a tripod.
Use a small aperature so you have depth of field.
If you're photgraphing rifles, long-guns, pose them oblique to the film plane (diagonal in depth) so that you get a compact image/composition.
Edit visible serial numbers out of the photo. Once you post it online, it becomes "public property." You don't need your gun with its serial number appearing in Craig's List.
I did a nice photo of a specific caliber ammo. Now when I Google "images" in that caliber the photo shows up in the search. AND it's NOT from something I've posted, but rather from a thread where someone else pirated the image.
As a matter of course, I remove firearm images from my PhotoBucket acct. on a regular basis to disable hot links to the image from "pirates."
EDIT TO A SMALL FILE FOR ONLINE ! ! !
EDIT TO A SMALL FILE FOR ONLINE ! ! !
Small file, like 640 X 480 pixels and "0" resolution in PhotoShop.