Message-ID: <1154545890.085413.168040@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> from
ian@morse-code.fsnet.co.uk contained the following:

Lighting is everything and on camera flash simply won't do it.  Save
yourself time and hassle and take it to a studio.

If you really must do it yourself and you have no lighting kit then take
it outdoors on a cloudy day and use natural light.  Use some white
reflectors to fill in shadow areas if necessary.  Bear in mind that no
matter how good the camera, the edge between object and background is
never 100% sharp, there is always some fuzziness where the colour of the
object blends into the colour of the background so if you want the
object to appear to be floating against a  white background, make the
back ground as white as you can by using a white sheet or similar.  That
way it shouldn't be too difficult to remove the background in PSP.

Bear in mind however that objects to not float in space in the real
world and that the object may well look better if you use a drop shadow,
and effect which is quite easy to achieve in PSP.