Making a Photography Background

[EmmaRose]

lastolite does a great little kit designed for ebayers, about £30, perfect for jewellery, including a tent, grey card and even blue filters to put over normal lamps...
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[Boo]

Hello, this is my first post, I hope you don't mind me diving in with a suggestion - I tend to gravitate to photography discussions.

You really don't need to spend money to make a suitable photography environment for small items like jewellery - I have a tutorial on my own set up which is based on a left over storage bucket from the fat balls I put out for the birds - along with a little kitchen foil and a bit of time.

I also have a tutorial on small item photography linked from it too. Quite often when I see problems posted in forums like this - especially where lighting is mentioned - or often the lack of it - it's not the amount of lighting that's an issue, but exposing appropriately for the scene - a little know how and understanding of why problems happen often totally eliminates the need for any further expenditure.

I can't seemingly post the direct URLs yet, but I think the small item tutorial should appear in my sig. and the light diffuser is linked from that page, it's on the same site.