[Jewelry making - Article 00086] - Re: [Orchid] Lighting for digital photographs

[Lizzieq]

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    I remember a lot of very useful info on photography a while back.
    This new discussion caught my eye since I got a neat set of halogen
    "work lights" last Christmas, a "suggested" gift kindly provided by
    my understanding wife. Seems Trevor has these sorts of lights. Will
    do!!!  These do work quite well as long as "white balance" is set
    into the digital camera beforehand. This simply means an adjustment
    to "white balance" with a piece of white paper in the place of the
    items to be photographed. Works quite well for me and much better
    than adjusting "temperature" in either Photoshop or JASC PaintShop.
    (the latter program is much, much less costly than the Adobe
    software and will do just what your want in 99% of image
    correction.)  I use both Photoshop and PSP8 and generally prefer to
    get the balance right in the first place, using the digital camera
    menu to set it to the light source. 

    At work, now here is a simple set up that does work quite well.  
    You can see an image taken using this method at.wait, I will have to
    load that to a website and will try to do that in a day or two. The
    current one needs logins. Sorry. I work at a bench. I take "jewelers
    antitarnish tissue", tape an end to the forward surface of the lamp,
    pull the tissue back a bit leaving a slight loop beneath the
    fluorescent bulbs and tape that end to the rear of the lamp. Then the
    rest comes down and forward on the bench to form a sort of place to
    set the items to be photographed. This is an "on the spot" solution
    but when I take a "white balance" setting under the now diffused
    lamp; the shots are frankly amazing for such a simple set up.  Sure,
    the image is not the almost view camera results from "diamondeddy2"
    (congrats on that image of the pen!). 

    I have a cloud dome, used mostly for eBay type images. This is a bit
    much for the limited space and "sudden need" for a pic at work. So,
    at work, I use the simple jewelers tissue, bench lamp and white
    balance to get a decent image. With a bit of adjustment and
    experiment(not much needed) you can get a better than decent image.
    The tissue diffuses the already somewhat diffused light from the
    bench lamp. Still, assigning a white balance to start with is the
    most critical step. 

God Bless.
TomDart(Thomas)

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