Project in development: Inexpensive way to shoot expensive jewelry

DIY Jewelry photography examples

I am working on a series of tutorials (not sure what to name it yet :-), but the idea is to develop a very non-expensive DIY lighting and shooting technique to produce stunning results, so jewelry designers and hobbyists can build and use it.

The idea came from +Genia Larionova’s hobby.  She and few her friends create hand-made

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Jewelry shoot & post-production e-book announcement

Jewelry photography e-book announcement

I am glad to announce our latest work, a jewelry ring with splash:
 

It was experimental shoot, and we are going to release an e-book about how ti was done: the shot and a post-production.
Re-posted from  Genia’s blog:
Before and after photo of our upcoming ebook.
Stay tuned!

Human's code exposed: Photographing DNA encoded jewelry

Dna sample test result

While working on putting together test result for an upcoming Leica X1 vs Fuji X100 article I found this one year old photoshoot which was never released before.  According to pool’s result (did you vote? see it on the right), jewelry photography is the most interested topic among my blog readers, and I am sure

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Mastering jewelry photography: my experience with a shooting cone

Recently I played with the new (to me) thing: a lighting cone. In general, the idea of this light modifier is very similar to a shooting box (lighting tent) but have few very major advantages, especially if used to shoot jewelry.  I personally do not like shooting tent (despite the fact I’ve used it recently)

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Lighting for jewelry photography: the development process

Jewelry photography by akelstudio: diamond ring

Just want to give a little insight for one of the projects we have running as some sort of background process during the week before a vacation. Talking about jewelry photography, small jewelry to be specific.
The main intention of this self-assignment that I want to develop a lighting technique which will let me to work

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Photographing jewelry: the lighting setup, tips and tricks plus bonus video

Lighting schema for jewelry photography

When one of our client’s ask me to shoot  several bracelets, it looked like an easy task, at first.  But when we started to talk about technical requirements, the  photo session become more challenging than I was thinking…
First, he wants a spot-like gradient background, from deep purple to a complete black. Second, bracelets must be

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