 Barbara J. Johnson |
Jewelry Photography Help
We sell jewelry. We recently purchased a Nikon D70 with a micro lens and ring light. We have tried a photo tent, sheets, moving the ring light around, blue lights, etc., to get the pictures perfect. We need to get the background of the pictures very white, but not have the rings/jewelry washed out. When we get the ring to look perfect, the background is blue or grey ... HELP!!! Blessings! Barbara
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Bob Cammarata |
Have you tried a copy-stand type setup? With two incandescent light sources hitting the ring at 45-degree angles (as close to the subject as you can get without them being in the frame), the ring and background would be illuminated equally. As long as your background is white, and your white balance setting is correct, it should look like the photo you are trying to emulate.
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Wilson H. Valentin |
Hi Barbara, There is no equipment that will get your background white white white or R 255 G 255 B 255 when placing the eye dropper to get the color values. Not even if you get a $30,000 Digital back. A light tent is good with light strobes and the rest is Photoshop using curves and levels and manually erasing the background to get it white. it's very hard and many photographers hate it. the ring you posted which you got from a site is ok but I see yellow on it plus the shadow is a distraction, at least for my art director. E-mail me with any other question you may have.
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Barbara J. Johnson |
What about those "domes"...they seem to be very pricey and I would feel more comfortable if we had someone tell us that it was worth the money to get one.
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