[Jewelry making - Article 00703] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[leonid surpin]

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    By now it is obvious, at least to me, that consensus on the subject
    cannot be reached. 

    In my last post on this subject, I would like to bring to attention
    this fact. For hundreds of years designers communicated with
    customers via sketches made on brown paper where gold was represented
    as some yellow substance, diamonds were small bits of white paint, 
and
    etc. It did not impede their business in any way and many of them 
went
    on to become powerhouses of the trade. 

    The lesson that we can take away from it is that clients do
    understand limits of pictorial representation and even appreciate the
    fact that they are treated not like children, but like sophisticated
    individual capable of mentally bridging gaps between an item and the
    image of an item. 

    Few words about film processing. 

    An attempt was made to draw a parallel between lab techniques used
    on film and photoshopping. In my humble opinion, this is not a valid
    comparison. Film manipulation, besides adding artistic touches, was
    developed out of necessity to salvage pictures that cannot be 
retaken.
    This situation does not exist in digital photography. If one is
    unsatisfied with the shot, simply take another and another until
    proper exposure is discovered. 

Leonid Surpin
www.studioarete.com
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