my new peace of jewellery :D

**silver Girl** · 04-10-2009, 11:20 AM

ok , I've done a close up of it , so I hope you can see the one well enought

( try click on the picture if it's to small)

**MuranoSilver** · 04-10-2009, 11:49 AM

Hi Silver girl it's still pretty blurry, how are you taking your pictures?
It might be worth getting a £10 tripod to put your camera on,
(especially as you'll need good clear images for any website pics you do).

It will never produce award winning pics but a tripod and macro setting would
much improve your pic quality.

Can't wait to see the bracelet in all it's glory
nic xx

**silver Girl** · 04-10-2009, 02:21 PM

I give up

**caroleallen** · 04-10-2009, 05:57 PM

Don't give up Silver Girl, just take Nic's good advice. You will need some really good images for your website.

**Boo** · 04-10-2009, 06:36 PM

I have a tutorial on taking jewellery photos for using on-line which might give you some ideas. As has been said already, if you want to sell on-line you will need to master many skills that you perhaps haven't anticipated - and good photographs are absolutely essential - have a look at my site and see the range and quality of photos and presentation I use to sell my work: Boo's Hand Crafted Jewellery.

Tutorial: Taking photographs of hand made products to sell on-line

**The Dragon** · 04-10-2009, 09:18 PM

No don't give up silver girl, my pictures looked just like that when I first started. I'm completely incapable of holding a camera steady enough to take good pictures, probably because I can't sit still for five minutes. I've spent quite a bit of time reading what people have put on the forum about photography which has helped a lot, although I still have a long way to go. I get so frustrated that what should be a simple process, just point and shoot, isn't and I have to try really hard to work out a way to get what I want.

**snow_imp** · 05-10-2009, 08:32 AM

No, don't give on the photography. My initial results were blurry and too dark. I had to ask a friend who does a photography a lot of questions about how to use my camera and spent a lot of time looking at the results to try and sort out good results. I took 10s of photos just to get 1 decent one for use in my album.

I also read Boo's articles although I haven't got a bird food bucket to turn into a studio at the moment so am looking around to see if I have anything else similar to try using.

It does get easier - I promise.

**Solunar Silver Studio** · 05-10-2009, 09:26 AM

I'm trying Boo's idea out too. I've used a 5 litre plastic food store type of container from the 'cheapest' supermarket chain but I've no doubt the others do similar. It cost me around £1.60 I think. Cutting with a craft knife was a bit of a chore and it did tend to crack a bit but it is still ok. Cutting it with a cutting wheel is probably the better option. First attemps with photographs are coming out better than they did without the set up but I still think it needs a bit of tweaking as I am still getting a bit of a shadow. I think Boo did say she sanded the 'light source' side a bit to diffuse the entering light a bit more - so I think I'll give that a go! I'm frantically making at the moment for a sale on Saturday but I might find some time towards the end of the week to get that done.

**snow_imp** · 05-10-2009, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by Solunar Silver Studio

I'm trying Boo's idea out too. I've used a 5 litre plastic food store type of container from the 'cheapest' supermarket chain but I've no doubt the others do similar.

Hm, I didn't think of that - thanks for the tip.