[Jewelry making - Article 00639] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[Kim Paluch]

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    Roughly the reply I was going to make. Anyone who has paid attention
    will notice that photography has never been the 'truth'.
    Photographers crop and shift focus before they take pictures, and
    after taken, cropping the print. There's the old story of US
    President Kennedy shaking hands with a soldier in a picture...the
    image appeared to verify a 'story' of favoritism, bribery, garnering
    of favors, etc. The image, in reality, was originally of a line of
    soldiers in front of a plane, President Kennedy shaking hands with
    the first one in line (the pilot, I believe). 

    Pictures are worth a thousand words. And I believe most people know
    this...(witness the tabloids and their photographic creativity).
    However, when people are looking at something they are buying, they
    think from a different part of their brain...they forget logic, they
    want to believe that the picture is what they will have. Have you
    seen a gem (set in a ring but not on finger) lit to show the glow of
    color? It can never look the same on a person because the light won't
    show through the ring the same way. Some things people can accept,
    others they can't. The question isn't whether we ought to photograph
    jewelry to cast it in the best light (no pun intended), not whether
    we ought to get rid of or compensate for glare, dull light, bad
    angles-it's whether we ought to tell the customer. A simple note
    might fix it..."any alterations made to images representing jewelry
    or components were to correct photographic aberrations" or "any
    changes to images of jewelry or components were done so that the
    image more accurately represented said jewelry". 

    Or just leave off, don't say a word, and spend more time making
    jewelry. 

Kim
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