Best Digital Picture Frame for Mother's Day

Looking for the best digital photo frame for your mom? The T-Mobile Cameo could be the big hit this Mother's Day season. It's the first picture frame that you won't have to teach your mom how to upload photos to. How? It's connected to the T-Mobile wireless data network. You just email or MMS photos right to the frame's address and they show up.

Think about it. Your mom could see photos from your vacation or the kids' plays and sports events before you even get home. 

The Cameo isn't available online yet, but it's now $39.99 in T-Mobile stores. The wireless service is now only $1.99 a month.

Reviews here:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1778

http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/11/25/boing-boing-gadgets.html

Photography gifts for the Etsy online craft seller

If you're shopping for someone crafty that already or might sell their work on Etsy, taking a good product photo will be a big help to their business. A small light tent like this one solves a lot of lighting and background problems for them. It has a nice smooth background paper. The white sides of the light tent diffuse the light to eliminate harsh reflections. It comes with two small lights, which help eliminate shadows and get the color right.

Photo gift ideas for the eBay seller

It seems like everyone sells stuff on eBay. If you're shopping for a big eBay seller or even one just getting started, a great gift could help their business. I'd start with a good book on taking photos for eBay. This one is full of tips on how to take photos that create the ones that evoke the "I must have this" feeling.




One of the best tips for taking photos that sell is to use for selling tips is to use a light tent kit. This eliminates shadows, reflections, junk backgrounds, camera shake, and all sorts of other problems.

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If they photograph models at all, or even just the family or kids, a good portable reflector can really help bounce light onto faces so they're not just buried in shadows. This one has several surfaces to bounce white light or gold/yellow which warms up skin tones.