Thanks. I think.
Whilst I use a DSLR in my day job and for pleasure, I use a hundred quid point and shoot for my jewellery photos - it's just a more sensible tool for the job - it gives me a really good working perspective - as you can perhaps surmise from the tutorial photos, I don't have much space - so the point and squirt camera does much better in a confined space - I can use super macro mode from an inch or so away from the piece.
For the lighting levels and perspective, I get a much better depth of field from the smaller sensor of a digicam, so it's just the better and more practical tool for the job. But it took me many, many months of trial and error and frustration before I decided that. Hence writing the tutorials - there's one associated on taking the photos too - to hopefully save someone else from my frustration.
Taking photographs of hand made products to sell on-line
My blog with various photography articles too: Boo's Jewellery
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...you don't have a tutorial for manufacturing a bit of extra time in the day to read it all do you??
Originally Posted by Solunar Silver Studio
. Don't forget Jo, that the pic of the bead yo have posted is probably about four times the real life size? Just imagine what anything looks like magnified 4 times 
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