Jewelry Photography

[ff151]

Hi all,

A friend of mine has asked me to use my equipment to capture some images of his fiancee's jewelry for their website. I captured the pics in RAW and JPEG fine format. These are the JPEG images.

All images were captured using his homemade lightbox, with outside lights diffused through white tissue paper. I have posted 2 pictures, (please forgive the one pic rule) however I really don't want a critique for each individual picture, but rather the technique and your opinions of how I did and what I could to make them better?

[Murtasma]

try placing a large black sheet into the light box to refect some light away from the jewlery and create black reflections on the peices. The jewlery looks a little over exposed esp the bottom image. I would also shoot at a smaller f-stop toget a little more depth of feild. It drops off before the end of the jewlery. Other then that there isn't to much room to improve one besides some photoshopping to balance the colors out.

[ff151]

Thanks for the feedback,

1) I am not sure what you mean by putting in a black cloth? Do you have a picture anywhere of how you do that?

2) I shot the pic at F22, shouldn't that provide enough DOF?

FF

[clockdoc]

You may have shot this at f/22 but other factors come into play such as the focal length of the lens you are using, the closeness of the lens to the subject and the angle at which you are shooting this. Where did you focus when you took these images? The stark contrast between the black jewelry base and the white background make it hard on the eyes to view the detail and beauty of the jewelry. How large are the tissue paper sheets as their size will have a significant effect on the size of diffusion highlight you get off the jewelry. Small sheets equals small and more intense highlights.

[jiminyClickit]

ff151,

Clothes brush, lint brush, scotch tape, vacuum cleaner, something. Customers won't know what aperture you shot at, but they'll recognize spotty presentation. Save yourself edit time.

[ff151]

Lol,

Yea we noticed that after Jiminy! This was more an experimentation on how to shoot the jewelry rather than the end product Thankyou for pointing that out.

FF