Wow, great suggestion about hooking up your camera to a PC
"Also, how much lighting do you need?"
I don't really know what you mean, i just lit the first one with a window and the second with this home-made pop up flash diffuser (they call it a ring flash but it's not)
http://www.adidap.com/2007/12/20/diy...man-ring-flash
I would really recommend it, the only thing is that you do get some odd specular highlights, i used the patch tool to get rid of them.