A Beginner’s Guide to Jewelry Photography

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Jewelries are precious commodities that increase in value over time. Gold is often regarded as a safe haven for most businessmen especially during economic crash. The value of Gold and other Gems or jewelry is always increasing due to the demand of most costumers.

This is a definitive guide on how you can take photos of your jewelry and turn them into high quality images. The process starts by taking photos of your rings, gemstones and necklaces.

What is Jewelry Photography?

Taking photos of jewelry products using digital camera to save the image. Jewelry are composed of different products such as rings, bracelets, bangles, stones, gold, silver, necklaces and many more.

How to Take Photos using your Phone?

Take photos using a soft box in order to capture your images with the highest brightness possible.

Here are some options:

1. Amazon Basics Portable Foldable Photo Studio Box with LED Light – 25 x 30 x 25 Inches
2. ESDDI Photo Studio Light Box 24″/60cm

DSLR Camera

A digital camera takes high definition photos especially when you are using Nikon, Cannon or Sony Cameras.

Macro Lens

Macro lenses allows you to zoom at the these small products.

Lighting

Make sure to have a proper lighting for your image. You can use a soft box to capture every inch of your image.

Resolution

Make sure to adjust your Phone settings to the highest resolution possible, a dimension of 3,000 x 3,000 upward is recommended.

Use Tripod

Using a tripod allows you to have a sharper image by making your shot stable as possible.

Photo Retouching Jewelry

After the photo-shoot images always come out raw and bare in color. Most of the images will be processed using Adobe Lightroom or a Photo Editing Software. Due to the small sizes of these items reflections, blemishes and spots are often seen and a retouching procedure is needed to remove it.

Here are some of many services that you can avail from your company.

• Background Removal
• Color Correction
• Reflection Removal
• Add Mirror Effect
• Color Change
• Add Diamonds

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