[Jewelry making - Article 00541] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[Helen Hill]

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Hi Valerie,

    I'm no photographer by any means but I do look at how others
    photograph their work to see what works and what doesn't. The Honors
    Thesis pictures on your website are very good and seem to be what
    others have recommended on Orchid, ie the graduated grey background.
    Your jewellery just "pops" out of the picture in those. 

    Where you've taken pictures in the garden, the plants you've used as
    backgrounds are too distracting - your jewellery is not what stands
    out. I think if you do want to use plants, use large architectural
    plants with big leaves rather than the tiny leaved plants in some of
    your pictures. 

    From what I remember of the last thread on photography, the
    consensus seems to be to use the graduated grey background for jury
    shots but you can be more relaxed if it's for website pictures - but
    you do need to do more justice to your jewellery. I'll be interested
    to see what suggestions others have for backgrounds. I just put some
    of my jewellery on Etsy and I used the large hand-like leaves of the
    Fatsia japonica (false castor oil plant) as a background. I tried it
    as I'd seen some other people using large leaved plants in their
    photographs quite successfully. I've got quite a few architectural
    plants in my garden as they're favourites of mine - things such as
    Dicksonia antarctica (tree ferns), Trachycarpus fortunei (windmill
    palm), Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax) - so I'm going to be
    experimenting with them over the next few weeks. 

Helen
UK
http://www.hillsgems.co.uk
http://www.helensgems.etsy.com
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