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Fellow Photographers,
The best way to capture the real color of your silver jewelry is to lay down a piece of aluminum foil (or another silver looking background) underneath the piece you’d like to photograph, so that it matches the silver color of your item by reflecting the aluminum background on your item.
If shoot your silver jewelry with any other color background or if you use the white lit platform on our photography lighting systems, you will get the reflections of that color on the metal. Which may make your silver look lighter (more white) than it really is. For this reason, we want a silver-looking background color to match the color of the silver jewelry.
If you choose to use aluminum foil you can choose between a mate finishing or a shiny one, the aluminum foil comes on both .
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Photographing Jewelry and Collectables with MK Lighting Systems
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: B&H NYC Superstore – 420 9th Ave, NY New York 10001
Mike Deutsch of MK Digital Direct will be demonstrating the use of the MK lighting systems to achieve consistent and beautiful results easily of jewelry and collectables. Mike will cover in this presentation; setting the cameras custom white balance, proper positioning of the jewelry, creating catalogs and web page ready images. Watches, bracelets, rings and other items will be photographed during this presentation. MK Digital Direct is the worldwide leading manufacturer of product photography lighting systems. MK Digital lighting systems enhance the beauty of jewelry, gifts, collectibles, eBay products, forensics and more.
Hello to every one:
Today I want to share on a simple way to obtain beautiful pictures of rings using simple and cheap easy to found products.
Of course you need to have a good Photo-eBox lighting system, and a reliable digital camera.
If you need more information on the type of camera you need, the proper accessories and a good all-in-one photography lighting system please
Let’s start.
Materials we need.
1- Any non reflective piece of fabric. Sued, velvet, heavy cotton, etc.
2- A piece of Styrofoam.
3- One plant decoration pin, or any pin used to hold jewelry to portable displays.
4- A ring.
5- Some decorative items if you want to decorate your picture.
Here you can see the 3 items used for this picture
Steps for how to photograph a ring with a textile background
1. Place the fabric inside the photo e box; you can use just a partial section of it
2. Cover the Styrofoam with part of the fabric. So you can hide it
3.Using the pin hold the ring in place by pushing it trough the fabric until is secure on the Styrofoam.
Decorate the surroundings, zoom in and arrange your picture, adjust your shutter speed to properly light the picture and…. “click” you have a nice picture in seconds.
You can retouch, crop, and arrange the image, to be used in your web page, catalog or mailers using various software’s. Or one provided with the photo e box.
Finished Photograph of the Ring
Experiment with several fabrics, rings, positions of the rings; make one or two level pictures etc. do whatever you like this is your picture and you are the creator of it.
Many people worry that all pictures on the web need to have a white background that is not true a dark background will always give you more contrast to your jewelry and more presence remember when you sell online:
You are selling pictures not jewelry
So have fun and sell more.
Ruben Neuman
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