Not everybody can afford or needs to spend thousands of $$$ on a pro-strobe lighting kit. So how do you manage to take some very professional looking photos on the cheap?

Well, better ask Ray Dobbins as he goes into great details to explain how he does take photos of his bikes with a photo setup that costed him less than $300…

“I took all the photos in this website, the good ones and the bad ones.  And I did it all in my garage.  I started with a very cheap 3.2 megapixel digital camera, the Olympus Camedia D-395.   About four months ago I moved up to a better camera, the 4.0 megapixel Kodak EasyShare DX7440.

It has a better lens, more features and higher optical zoom, which really helps with the close-ups.  However, all things being equal, the difference in the quality output between the two cameras is not significant.  One of my best looking albums, the Colnago Oval CX, was taken with the Olympus.

The big difference is in the features.  So don’t think that you need an expensive camera – even my new one only cost around $300.00.”

Quite ingenious! Tho the results are very good for bikes, I’m not sure you’ll get the same quality if you are to shoot human models but then again, you should never shoot models in your garage