[Jewelry making - Article 00842] - [Orchid] The one dollar photo "dome diffuser"...

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    About 20 years ago I made my first camera setup for shooting
    jewelry. It consisted of a copy stand with a Pentax 35 mm camera &
    Macro lenses. I used "domes" made from translucent plastic lighting
    fixtures... They generally cost less than $5.00 at lighting stores. 

    Ten years later I setup a shadow box similar to Charles
    Lewton-Brain's directions in "Small Scale Photography." I still use
    both the copy stand and the shadow box every day. Each has it's
    uses... 

    My wife teaches Photoshop, Illustrator, Publisher and many other
    programs at our local college. I've talked her into doing a small
    scale digital camera workshop for jewelers with an intro to basic
    Photoshop techniques early next year. 

    The recent thread on using the Rubbermaid cake server as a diffusing
    dome had me thinking about other possibilities for half a dozen or
    more students. I've since noticed everything from trash cans to
    boxes made of suitable translucent plastics -- but today I came
    across by far the best! 

    I had to go to Radio Shack for a component I needed to fix a wax
    pen, and next door was a brand new "Dollar Tree" store. I had a few
    minutes to kill while I waited for the salesman to see if they could
    find me the part I needed, so I wandered in. There was a stack of
    mixing bowls that are the perfect size, shape and material for
    diffusing domes -- and as it is throughout this store everything is
    $1... I bought a handful. 

    Then went by Home Depot and picked up "L" brackets in the lumber
    dept. to mount the cameras. These were $1.69 each -- including 2
    mounting screws and a serrated thumb screw for the camera. Each
    complete dome ready to mount a digital camera costs $2.69 + tax! It
    took me twenty minutes to cut the access hole for the camera lens
    with a hole saw and drill the holes to mount the "L" bracket on 6 of
    these units. 

Brian P. Marshall
Stockton Jewelry Arts 
209-477-0550 Workshop/Studio/Classrooms


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