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Jewelry Photography – Getting Started

I love the idea of photographing my jewelry in the GREAT OUTDOORS or somewhere COOL in my house, but disappointingly, I find that the lighting is really quite terrible. I learned online how to make my own mini-photography studio though! Here was the website that I followed loosely. And another site that looks helpful.

I, however, ended up attaching half of my husband’s old white t-shirt to only one side of the box and using a powerful lamp with two light settings. We also have a Canon Powershot SD-1000 camera (the heavy duty kind). This setup works great for me! I set the camera up on Manual mode to these settings:

- Macro (flower)
- Two second timer (I don’t have a tripod yet.)
- Low light
- No flash

Why use a two-second timer?  Because your hand shakes when you press the button!  It takes a while for the camera to take the picture when you don't have the flash on.  During that time the camera picks up every... little... movement of your hand!  So, press the button, hold your breath and CLICK!  You should have a nice picture.  It's BEST if you have a tripod or even a solid surface to rest the camera against for this reason too...

The most challenging part is finding great backgrounds that are NOT reflective. It’s even worse when the jewelry itself reflects your face, camera, camera “stand”, etc. I’ve been covering these items with a black cloth if possible, and that seems to help… somewhat.

If you try / tried making a light box or light tent yourself, let me know how yours turned out!

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