Jewelry Shots

[ALwin]

Recently I was asked to work on creating some merchandise photos for someone who is about to open an online fashion accessory shop. Today I went with my camera and 100mm macro lens, using a collapsible lightbox, 2x 160 LED light panels bought off Ebay and 2x SB-900, here are some of the photos taken today.

Please comment, especially if you have done this type of work before and any advice, tips, tricks you could share would be appreciated.

The owner who makes these necklaces herself wanted me to photograph over 100 items, so I decided not to use focus stacking. Instead I used a macro lens, small aperture to get greater DOF and selective focus on the parts that I thought might interest a potential buyer who would be browsing the site. I got about 60 done over the course of 2 hours.

I added vignetting in post processing because:
- I did not want to blind the viewer with too much white highlighted surface
- draw viewer's eyes onto the item.


Caradam by A.LwinDigital, on Flickr


Caradam by A.LwinDigital, on Flickr


Caradam by A.LwinDigital, on Flickr

[digitalfingers]

Lovely and sharp. In my opinion these are spot on.

[simon3116]

Lovely and sharp. In my opinion these are spot on.

I agree, plus, very good use of the vignette to draw the focus onto the jewelry.

[ALwin]

Thanks guys, and I am glad the client likes them.

The setup, I didn't take the photo of it, was 1 LED panel on each side, at a slight angle, 1 Speedlight from above and 1 speedlight mounted on camera.

[Troy]

Looks good to me too Aung. Great catchlights all round, and a good level of sharpness. The vignette really works to help put all attention on the items too. I bet you got fed up of positioning jewellery after the first 5 or so though!

[ALwin]

I bet you got fed up of positioning jewellery after the first 5 or so though!

Yeah! It was not easy, these are just some of the simple ones that used wire to thread the beads. Other pieces had pre-shaped silver tubing that just would not stick their shape or round beads that kept rolling around.

[Troy]

Been there Aung. Tiny pieces of bluetack are your friend

[ALwin]

Been there Aung. Tiny pieces of bluetack are your friend

Thanks for the tip, I'll remember it for next time.

[preciouslittle]

Very informative suggestion. But can't see the image.