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Posted on December 14, 2007 | No Comments

I have recently done another set of jewellery photographs for a local jeweller,Julia Parry-Jones. She has a very unique style of jewellery, and is always a challenge to photograph. I am currently using 2 x Elinchrom D lite 4 flash units, with a 1.5m square light cube open at the front, with a black background and a black base with a sheet of glass over the top to get a reflection. Because of the size of my studio at the moment my lights are pretty close, so I can get away with having them at a pretty low setting on each.

Jewellery Photography Norfolk

As standard I use the Canon 50mm 1.8 prime lens on my Canon 40D, as it offers a great amount of sharpness – which is always critical when taking photo’s of of small items of jewellery. I always have the 40D on a tripod and use either a remote release or just the count down, so I eliminate as much movement as possible. After I have taken as many pictures I need, I will quickly check them over in Adobe Lightroom to make sure they are good enough, of not I will go back and take a few more as required. I generally have the lights set up in a simple way, one on each side, shooting through the light cube for nice diffused light, as this jewellery looks best without too many harsh shadows and liht lines on it in my opinion – I would like to start perhaps adding anothe light at the front to try and pick out bit of sparkle when appropriate. I find jewellery photography extremely rewarding and enjoyable.. as working in a studio you can control everything you need – so there is no excuse to have blurry and under exposed images.