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Shooting gold jewelry


 
 
I have been trying to shoot gold jewelry on a white background using my digital camera. I can never get the background to look white. If I shoot silver jewelry the background is white. I'm using a light tent with a photoflood on either side, Olympus 3020 zoom with macro lens. Any ideas.


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August 16, 2002

 

John A. Lind 		  Diane,
It looks as if the background is picking up the color cast of the yellow gold as it reflects light from your photofloods onto the background. Any time an object with a non-neutral color (other than white or true gray) reflects light, the reflected light will pick up the color of the object, and if that light falls on something else nearby it will shift its color. How much depends on many factors. It's more noticeable here because the background you are using is white.

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August 25, 2002

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  Are you using auto exposure. The gray look to the white looks like slightly underexposure. Or could be using auto white balance, so the gold from the ring could be throwing it off.


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November 16, 2003

 
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