How to Photograph Jewellery
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| You also need to be familiar with your camera before you begin, in particular the white balance and macro settings. With modern digital cameras you can at least experiment to your heart's content without wasting a deal of money on film. If you are not lucky enough to own a digital camera, perhaps you own a scanner attached to your computer. You can even use this to take images of flat jewellery pieces. The important tricks for using a scanner are to make sure the scanner glass is perfectly clean and protected from scratches by a clear plastic sheet. After you've arranged your jewellery item on the scanner plate, place a small box, slightly thicker than the jewellery on the scanner bed, but out of the area that you wish to shoot. This will make sure that the jewellery is not moved from the designed position when you close the scanner lid. Finally place a suitable background over the jewellery, this can be a sheet of scrapbook paper, or material, then close the lid and try a pre-scan to see how the finished results will appear. Whether you take your images with a digital camera or scanner, you may need to use photo editing software to clean up any glitches. Even this need not be expensive as there are several free, good quality photo editing software programs available online. Shooting jewellery can be aesthetically rewarding. Not only are you beginning with a beautiful and visually intriguing subject, buy you can manipulate the background and foreground in order to create some neat scenery. | |