Photography - How to make your product look the best.

[The Dragon]

I'm not the best photographer in the world, although I have a reasonable digital camera. A lot of my work is marred by shadows behind the pieces detracting from the detail. At the moment I'm experimenting with a piece of muslin tacked to an old picture frame, I shine a bright light through this onto the piece, it does cut down on the shadows but I haven't quite got the distances right yet.

Has anybody tried anything similar - if so how did it go?


Annie

[bustagasket]

my little digital camera does struggle. It does have the little flower symbol but my eyes need testing badly, so thats not helping - gonna try and get an appointment next week

[Matp85]

you can buy a light box for photography that diffuses the light and also has a small hole in the cabinet for that self relection!

or home made
http://www.studiolighting.net/homema...t-photography/

[Di Sandland]

I recently splashed out on a home lighting kit and it really makes my jewllery pics look the dog's whatsits. Eventually, I might get round to posting them on the site

[Caroline Foulkes]

I so wish I had seen all this useful advice before I took my pics for a website course a couple of months ago! I was dithering about on our stairs with a piece of white paper propped up on a shelf balancing things...tedious!!

[Ominicci]

I've done most of my photos outside, but sometimes get reflections/shadows. May use a homemade lightbox set up at some stage, but for now am happy with outside.

[jhpe07]

I saw a really great and cheap idea some time ago online, get a big plastic basin (see-through type) cut a hole in the front, crumple tin foil and then flatten back out, attach this inside te bowl on one side, on the other get some tracing paper and place this on the oposite side, place a bright light on the side that has the tracing paper, this will defuse the light, but will reflect back of the foil, then set the white balance, get the camera into macro mode, and shot through the hole in the basin.

James
personalised-jewellery.co.uk

[SJEgan]

Ooooh just found this thread! Completely what I needed ebay never occurs to me! Going to get a light tent and see if I can get better pics! Kinda embarrassed of the ones I have at the moment!

[SilverBouillon]

Going to get a light tent and see if I can get better pics! Kinda embarrassed of the ones I have at the moment!

Years ago I found a couple of articles on ganoksin site.

http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/photset.htm

http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/dire...ry/subject/9/3

I built a very quick shadow box, did not really put much work in lightning (I should have), used cheap camera, no tripod.
I found the picture made in that box. Even with minimum efforts simple shadow box helps.
Here is the picture made back to 6 (or 7) years ago with now dead old cheap kodak

[Ominicci]

I've done most of my photos outside, but sometimes get reflections/shadows. May use a homemade lightbox set up at some stage, but for now am happy with outside.