[Jewelry making - Article 00855] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[Alberic]

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HI Helen:

    There are a couple of answers for how to get rid of the camera and
    lens in the reflection. 

    As several people have mentioned, a long lens on a DSLR is the
    easiest answer to minimizing it. 

    My trick is/was to sew up a white nylon 'snout' that fits on the
    front of my EZ-cube, and attaches to the front of my lens. That way
    the only part of the camera (or room) that's visible at all is the
    face of the lens. It just becomes a black disk/dot that's very easy
    to photoshop out. Cost me all of about $4 worth of nylon. 

    The 'serious' way to do it involves secondary lighting and a beam
    splitter. (you set up shooting through a pane of reflective glass set
    at 45deg to your beam path, with a secondary light at 90deg to the
    beam to generate fill reflection on the face of the beam splitter,
    thus hiding the camera.) 

    Even I'm not that nuts. I've *seen* one of those rigs, once.
    Photoshop pretty much killed them. 

Regards,
Brian Meek.

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