Summary:This article aims to help newbies and enthusiasts to take better digital jewelry photography
1.Focus your digital camera
To make sure that your images are clear and sharp, make sure that you know how to focus your camera. Digital cameras with auto focus are often difficult to focus precisely, especially when shooting jewelry as small objects. Make sure your read your owner’s manual and make sure that you understand how the camera auto focus works. Most digital cameras are designed to easily focus on large objects but have difficulty on small objects as jewelry. It is often useful to put your camera in spot focus mode. Spot focus will give you more control over what part of a scene the camera is actually focusing on.
2.Use a tripod
Even the slightest- no matter how slight- movement when taking a picture will cause motion blurs. The closer you get to an object the more obvious the motion blur becomes. Using an inexpensive tripod will make a big difference in the sharpness of your images. For really sharp images it makes sense to invest in a good, sturdy tripod. If your camera has a remote shutter release then use it, if not then use the camera’s built-in timer to minimize the camera shaking.
3.Use your camera in aperture priority mode
To have the largest area for the subject your taking photo in focus, it is good to set your camera in aperture priority mode and set the aperture to the highest number as possible. The closer you get to the subject, the more important it becomes.
4.Use soft genteel lighting
Your camera’s built-in flash will rarely give good results for product photography. For soft lighting either shoot outside on an overcase day or use a light tent like the EZcube, Cubelite, or use a soft box.
5.Image editing software are really useful.
Even inexpensive software like Photoshop Elements or ACDSee can make your product photography much easier. It may seem like it’s faster to use an image exactly as it was shot. But you should notice that in reality, it is difficult to shoot an image precisely how you would like to appear in its final form. Image editing software allows you to crop an image, adjust it’s exposure, sharpen the image and then you also can resize it, often in less than a single minute. The biggest difference between an amateur’s product snapshot and a professional’s product image are sharpness and lighting. Steps 1,2, and 3 will improve the sharpness of your images while Step 4 will improve your lighting. A minute spent editing an image will improve it much more. Because these few steps seem so basic, it’s tempting to ignore them. However, if you take some time applying them, you will have a professional jewelry images.
