October 13, 2008 by Amy
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Since I’m learning more and more about studio work, I offered to try my hand at making images of her work. Turns out photographing jewelry is a lot harder than I thought. My lighting sucks on these and I don’t do them justice, but I’m learning.
I think my next Schiller’s purchase will be a product box: essentially a little tent into which you place items you wish to photograph, and the tent serves to diffuse the light so you get a lovely, soft glow. No harsh highlights or flare or whathaveyou.
I have cropped these to a square format because my colleage makes her jewelry with another woman by the same name, so they call their designs J-Squared. Their business cards are square, and the boxes their pieces come in are square. I’m a kook for consistency, so I cropped the images to square, too.
I’m totally digging this “documentary photography” thing. What a great way to remember things and create a visual record.
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