So you've got the fancy camera, maybe even purchased a macro lens to go with it, and are raring to take photos of jewellery. Living in Singapore, where the majority of the population resides in high-rise apartments with an appalling level of natural light (no thanks to small, boxy floor plans and tiny windows), I [...]
Aside from the usual pliers, cutters, files and stuff, there are a few humble non-jewellery-related objects that I actually use quite frequently. Pictured above are: 1. Tweezers, useful for... Not only are tweezers handy for fishing tiny beads out of containers deeper than 10mm, they're also indispensable for arranging chains when laid flat, and for [...]
Oh how corny. But I couldn't help it. Anyway, here are some new solitaire necklaces that have been lying around which I finally managed to photograph today. There are a couple of other pendants, but I ran out of chain. And of course, I truly hate the photos because the sunlight was coming in the [...]
By special request, I'm going to talk a bit about how I use props when shooting photos of jewellery :) Please note again: this is not a how-to tutorial but essentially my own personal journey in product photography, whose merit (or lack of) is, of course, 100% subjective. I started out without props of any [...]
In this second part, I will share a bit about what sort of post-processing happens to my jewellery photos. Two things I need to qualify first: 1) These are product photos - they need to fulfill the prerequisites of being clear and sufficiently lit. They should thus not be over-processed (you know, like art prints [...]