[Jewelry making - Article 00815] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[Helen Hill]

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    This is a very interesting topic which seems to be offering more
    information than the last time it was raised. I'm glad it's come up
    again though, as it coincides with me attempting to get half decent
    shots with my new Nikon D40X DSLR. 

    My problem is that when I upload my images onto my computer, as each
    one is being imported, I can see the true colours as they appeared
    in real life, then as I click on each one to take a closer look, the
    computer tells me it's rendering the image, and the lovely vibrant
    colours disappear and become horribly washed out colours which I
    then have to go back and correct. I have trouble actually remembering
    the true colours, whilst sliding various pointers on the screen. 

    I did a batch of pictures the other day and "developed" the first
    picture to the point where I was happy with it, then copied those
    settings and applied it to the rest of the pictures. It worked
    pretty well and I just had to tweak exposure or brightness in a
    couple of the pictures. Then for some reason, after cropping the ones
    I wanted to use and saving them with appropriate names to the
    appropriate files, when I uploaded the images onto Etsy, all the
    colours were once again horribly washed out, as though I'd done
    nothing to the pictures after they were imported into my computer.
    Very frustrating indeed. I'm very new to this digital photography
    lark and enjoy it to a certain extent but find it extremely
    frustrating too. I'd rather do my own pictures though, as when my
    husband does them for me, he doesn't go far enough to get the image I
    really want, just saying "it'll be fine", and then of course there's
    a limit to what you can do after the event. I guess you work harder
    for your own images. 

    BTW, I'm using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to import and develop my
    images and would be interested to hear from anyone who also uses the
    same software. Sometimes I'll load images into Adobe Photoshop to do
    other things, for example putting text over my image when making my
    Etsy banner, but usually I just use the Lightroom software. 

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

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