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[caption id="attachment_2601" align="alignnone" width="427" caption="Photo by Lorissa Longfellow"][/caption]

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Leah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:34:10 +0000

Bonhomie Jewelry recently asked me for tips on getting great jewelry photos. I was surprised, because some of my jewelry photos look like this: [caption id="attachment_961" align="alignnone" width="223" caption="So-so jewelry photo"][/caption] It's not bad - you get the general idea of what the pendant looks like, and you can see that there's a dark colored round bead, but what you can't see is that the bead actually is a very dark tiger-eye, with brown and black bands. It looks blah in the photo, when in reality, it's a beautiful bead (at least I think so anyway). Then again, some look like this: [caption id="attachment_856" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Better Photo - Amethyst & Peridot Earring"][/caption] So what's the difference between so-so photos that give the basic idea, and great photos that make someone want to see more? I thought about it, and here are the tips I'd give myself (or anyone else wanting to take their jewelry shots from so-so to really good).

Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
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Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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Leah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:46:53 +0000

[caption id="attachment_953" align="alignnone" width="267" caption="Rusty Chain"][/caption] One of the best ways I know to jump-start my creativity when I'm in a slump is to do something that isn't my usual craft. I've been having a hard time fitting in time to be creative lately because my son is teething, and, well, basically we're all short on sleep. On top of that, I've rarely had more than 10 minutes when I could completely get absorbed in doing my own thing. That's fine for computer stuff that I can stop and start, but when I'm feeling like creating, I need longer blocks of un-interrupted time to myself. Yesterday, I had some time, but I was so tired I didn't feel like getting out all my tools and supplies. So after a few minutes of yoga followed by a short nap, I decided to take my camera and go outside. Photography, especially close-up photography, is an interest I've never fully pursued, but I'd like to. In half an hour, I shot about 200 shots. It was the first time in a couple weeks I felt really creative and completely absorbed in what I was doing. [caption id="attachment_954" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Rust and Ashes"][/caption] It's also one of the first times I felt like I knew how to get the interesting shots I wanted to get. Probably due to the work I've been doing on getting better at jewelry and baby photography, I've just gotten better at photography in general. I took some weird, artsy pictures of everything from ashes to rusty metal to extreme close-ups of the tiny succulents in a planter box. Then I cropped the ones I liked the best to get even closer to the subject, sometimes so close that if I didn't know what the picture was of, it would be hard to guess. So - this is my inspiration post for Monday's Muse - if you need to get inspired, go do something creative that is different from what you normally do, and let yourself enjoy it rather than worrying too much about the finished product. [caption id="attachment_955" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Succulent (Extreme Close-up)"][/caption] More of my close up photos on flickr

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Leah — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:10:29 +0000

This ring isn't new, it's been listed in my etsy shop for a while - but this photo of it on a hand is new. [caption id="attachment_817" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Green Ring"][/caption] I've been spending a lot of time lately working on my photography. I think it's helpful for people to see jewelry on a model so they can picture how it might look on them, but getting pictures on a model that still show details of a piece of jewelry is tough. At least when photographing rings, I can use my own hands to model them, which makes it easier to experiment with lighting, backgrounds, etc that work for this type of photo. For necklaces, taking photos on a bust can be almost as effective as a live model, so I plan to try that rather than look for a model. I'm not sure what I'll do for earrings though - I don't think most people want to buy earrings that have been worn, even if only for a few moments to snap a picture, and I don't know of a realistic-looking display for them. Suggestions welcome!

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One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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New Earrings – two perspectives

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[caption id="attachment_2601" align="alignnone" width="427" caption="Photo by Lorissa Longfellow"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2602" align="alignnone" width="288" caption="Abstract by Bobbi Chukran"][/caption]

Bobi Chukran is a multi-talented artist who paints and does hand-pulled linocut prints, Prozac natural. Buy Prozac from mexico, I own a couple of her small abstract pieces and I love them.

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Bobi Chukran is a multi-talented artist who paints and does hand-pulled linocut prints, Prozac natural. Buy Prozac from mexico, I own a couple of her small abstract pieces and I love them.

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At the top of the edit screen, you can click to the next or previous photo, scroll through your photos, play a slideshow, or go back to your photo library (the main screen when you open the program).

Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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It's the one-click (or maybe two-click) ease of use that makes me love picasa as a photo editor, Buy Provigil Without Prescription.

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If the color is off, Provigil for sale, Provigil steet value, either use fill light, auto color, online buying Provigil hcl, Provigil street price, auto contrast, or in "tuning" the neutral color picker to click on something that *should* be white, Provigil wiki. Provigil natural, One of these three usually gets the color back to nearly perfect.

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If I'm feeling artsy, I might add a graduated shadow, where can i buy Provigil online, Provigil forum, or highlight one area of the photo by making the rest soft focus

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Jewelry Photography Tips

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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It's the one-click (or maybe two-click) ease of use that makes me love picasa as a photo editor, Buy Provigil Without Prescription.

The process I use to edit jewelry photos goes something like this:

Crop the photo

If the color is off, Provigil for sale, Provigil steet value, either use fill light, auto color, online buying Provigil hcl, Provigil street price, auto contrast, or in "tuning" the neutral color picker to click on something that *should* be white, Provigil wiki. Provigil natural, One of these three usually gets the color back to nearly perfect.

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If I'm feeling artsy, I might add a graduated shadow, where can i buy Provigil online, Provigil forum, or highlight one area of the photo by making the rest soft focus

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Jewelry Photography Tips

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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Leah — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:10:29 +0000

New Earrings – two perspectives

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At the top of the edit screen, you can click to the next or previous photo, scroll through your photos, play a slideshow, or go back to your photo library (the main screen when you open the program).

Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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[caption id="attachment_2602" align="alignnone" width="288" caption="Abstract by Bobbi Chukran"][/caption]

Bobi Chukran is a multi-talented artist who paints and does hand-pulled linocut prints, Prozac natural. Buy Prozac from mexico, I own a couple of her small abstract pieces and I love them.

[caption id="attachment_2604" align="alignnone" width="321" caption="Photo from Designs by Victoria"][/caption]

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At the top of the edit screen, you can click to the next or previous photo, scroll through your photos, play a slideshow, or go back to your photo library (the main screen when you open the program).

Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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It's the one-click (or maybe two-click) ease of use that makes me love picasa as a photo editor, Buy Provigil Without Prescription.

The process I use to edit jewelry photos goes something like this:

Crop the photo

If the color is off, Provigil for sale, Provigil steet value, either use fill light, auto color, online buying Provigil hcl, Provigil street price, auto contrast, or in "tuning" the neutral color picker to click on something that *should* be white, Provigil wiki. Provigil natural, One of these three usually gets the color back to nearly perfect.

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If I'm feeling artsy, I might add a graduated shadow, where can i buy Provigil online, Provigil forum, or highlight one area of the photo by making the rest soft focus

Photo backgrounds

Leah — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:07:06 +0000

Jewelry Photography Tips

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

Close Up Photography

Leah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:46:53 +0000

Green Ring

Leah — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:10:29 +0000

New Earrings – two perspectives

Leah — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:23:37 +0000

It's the one-click (or maybe two-click) ease of use that makes me love picasa as a photo editor, Buy Provigil Without Prescription.

The process I use to edit jewelry photos goes something like this:

Crop the photo

If the color is off, Provigil for sale, Provigil steet value, either use fill light, auto color, online buying Provigil hcl, Provigil street price, auto contrast, or in "tuning" the neutral color picker to click on something that *should* be white, Provigil wiki. Provigil natural, One of these three usually gets the color back to nearly perfect.

If I didn't take the sharpest photo (I've been known to not use a tripod, despite being told a million times I should), Provigil over the counter, Provigil blogs, then I use the sharpen function.

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Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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[caption id="attachment_2602" align="alignnone" width="288" caption="Abstract by Bobbi Chukran"][/caption]

Bobi Chukran is a multi-talented artist who paints and does hand-pulled linocut prints, Prozac natural. Buy Prozac from mexico, I own a couple of her small abstract pieces and I love them.

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Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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It's the one-click (or maybe two-click) ease of use that makes me love picasa as a photo editor, Buy Provigil Without Prescription.

The process I use to edit jewelry photos goes something like this:

Crop the photo

If the color is off, Provigil for sale, Provigil steet value, either use fill light, auto color, online buying Provigil hcl, Provigil street price, auto contrast, or in "tuning" the neutral color picker to click on something that *should* be white, Provigil wiki. Provigil natural, One of these three usually gets the color back to nearly perfect.

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If I'm feeling artsy, I might add a graduated shadow, where can i buy Provigil online, Provigil forum, or highlight one area of the photo by making the rest soft focus

Photo backgrounds

Leah — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:07:06 +0000

Jewelry Photography Tips

Leah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:34:10 +0000

Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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New Earrings – two perspectives

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Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

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Bobi Chukran is a multi-talented artist who paints and does hand-pulled linocut prints, Prozac natural. Buy Prozac from mexico, I own a couple of her small abstract pieces and I love them.

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Inside the main screen you also have a few options - play a slideshow, make a collage, make a movie, make a gift CD, or share photos.

One other very important function - at the top left, there is an Import button - you can use this to import photos from your camera or other device.

Picasa also has the usual drop-down menus at the top of your computer screen, but I have to admit I haven't really explored them yet, so for now, this concludes my little "tour" of Picasa.

I'll be going into a little more detail about some of the specific functions and how/why you'd use them in your photo editing in future posts.

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Leah — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:23:37 +0000

It's the one-click (or maybe two-click) ease of use that makes me love picasa as a photo editor, Buy Provigil Without Prescription.

The process I use to edit jewelry photos goes something like this:

Crop the photo

If the color is off, Provigil for sale, Provigil steet value, either use fill light, auto color, online buying Provigil hcl, Provigil street price, auto contrast, or in "tuning" the neutral color picker to click on something that *should* be white, Provigil wiki. Provigil natural, One of these three usually gets the color back to nearly perfect.

If I didn't take the sharpest photo (I've been known to not use a tripod, despite being told a million times I should), Provigil over the counter, Provigil blogs, then I use the sharpen function.

If I'm feeling artsy, I might add a graduated shadow, where can i buy Provigil online, Provigil forum, or highlight one area of the photo by making the rest soft focus

Photo backgrounds

Leah — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:07:06 +0000

Jewelry Photography Tips

Leah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:34:10 +0000

Lighting - For me, natural light gets the best jewelry photos. This means going outside during the day, and setting up my photos somewhere in the yard where I'm not getting too many shadows. It's not a scientific process, but I seem to get the best results in direct light, but on a day that isn't too sunny.
Background - unless you are really good at styling photos, a simple background is best. I use cardboard boxes, or a sheet of copper, or something else that is flat and all one color, preferably a neutral color not too close to the color of whatever I'm photographing. I bring a few backgrounds outside with me, and try the jewelry on each one. The copper gets the most great photos, but some pieces end up looking better on another background.
If you don't know anything about shutter speed, aperture, etc, use a camera with a really good auto mode. I use a Nikon D40, and about the only setting I ever change is the flash, to turn it on or off. And the zoom, which I use to get the autofocus t focus where I want it to.
Learn about macro mode. On most cameras, it's the little flower setting, and what it means is that your camera is set to take close-up shots. For point-and-shoot cameras, you probably need this setting in order to get halfway decent photos of small things like earrings. BUT if you have a DSLR, like I do, you might actually get better photos on regular mode, using the zoom to get in really close. With my old camera, a Sony Cybershot (older model, the new ones are probably better) I had to use the macro mode, and messing with the zoom in macro mode was not a good thing. So play with your camera - try non-macro and zoom in close, or use macro and physically move the camera to get as close as you can to your subject.
Try a bunch of different angles. My backgrounds are small and easy to move, so I set up the shot, then turn the whole thing around so that I get shots from all sides. I also take some from above and some from the side. I also zoom in on different parts of the jewelry - I'll zoom in on a stone for one shot, then from the same angle, I'll focus on a different component.
Photo editing: crop well. I am a complete idiot when it comes to photo editing software. Pretty much all I can do well is crop. This is very important - if you want people to look at your photos, crop out all the unnecessary stuff, and crop to the shape that you want. For etsy photos, I crop everything square. I'll make a couple images that show the whole piece, then maybe crop out everything except some detail I want to show off. (You get five shots on etsy, so I try to get five really good ones, and crop them well so people will want to look at all of them. Then I pick the one that looks best as a one inch square and use that for the first image.)
Remember that most of your photos won't be great ones. That's why I love digital cameras - I can just delete the bad ones and take more, and it doesn't cost me anything but time. Sometimes a piece just won't photograph well no matter what I do, and that can be frustrating, but I'm gradually getting more and more good photos, and less that I have to trash. I usually take at least ten pictures of a piece in one "shoot" and maybe 2 or 3 will be good. If I'm lucky, there will be enough to make five images for etsy, but usually I have to re-shoot once or twice before I'm done. Sometimes even more than that - certain stones, like that tiger eye, are really hard to photograph.

Close Up Photography

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Green Ring

Leah — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:10:29 +0000

New Earrings – two perspectives

Leah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:46:53 +0000