Metal Clay Business Resources - Photography
On this page you'll find resources to help you with photographing your jewellery. If you intend to teach metal clay, PMC or Art Clay or sell your jewellery, you'll want to have good quality photographs for your marketing material and website. You can employ a professional photographer or do it yourself.
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Basic Digital Photography Tips
Useful tips and hints. From Heart of the Stone Studio.
Beading Forum - How to Photograph your Jewellery
Nice simple tutorial with tips for photographing jewellery.
Cloud Dome
Cloud Dome is a studio-in-a-bag. It’s the simplest way for anyone to take professional-quality digital photographs without complicated lighting. It's an efficient way to take low cost, high quality images for online auctions. It is a proven fact that the better your picture the more bids you will get. With the help of the Cloud Dome you could go from an average seller on eBay to a Power Seller.
Correcting Color
This useful article tells you how to use black and white to correct the color balance of your photos.
Elaine Luther - Photography Blog
Fanstastic resource for tips and hints on how to photograph your jewelry. Lots of links to useful articles and other resources.
Fiber Art Glass - Photography Secret Weapons
Vickie Hallmark has a great blog and she's put her secret weapons to take fantastic photos on her June09 blog page. If you love gadgets, you'll love Vickie's secret weapons!
Flickr - Promote your work by displaying your photos online
Sign up for a free account with Flickr and upload your photos. This photo sharing site is a great place to display your work, especially if you don't have a website of your own.
GIMP - Free photo editing software for Mac OS X
This software is downloadable for free and will only work on Mac OS X. User friendly.
Jennifer Kahn - Photographing Jewelry Blog
Tutorial from Jennifer Kahn about photographing your jewelry. Great read!
Kelby Training
This site has a large number of video lessons on photography and photographic manipulation programmes like Photoshop. You are required to subscribe and pay a small fee but you can cancel at any time and watch as much as you like. The Photoshop beginners lessons are divided into 5-10 minute lessons. You can pause the video to try the techniques as you watch.
Lenses for Jewelry Photography
Photographing jewelry may use a variety of lenses popular with professional photographers. Learn about lenses and practice your jewelry photography with this free product photography video from Expert Village.
Lightboxes and Tents for Jewelry Photography
Useful information about lightboxes and tents with lots of links to relevant information. From Elaine Luther's great blog site, All Things Metal Clay
Make your own Lightbox
Nice tutorial about lightboxes.
MK Digital Direct - Jewelry Photography Tips
Great resource for jewelry photography. This page has lots of articles with various tips and hints on how to photograph your jewelry.
OBN Photography Equipment
US based suppliers of light boxes, black tents, lights and bulbs.
Photographing Jewelry and other Small Things.
Useful Squidoo Lens from Elaine Luther.
Photographing Jewelry Videos from Expert Village.
This series of short videos on YouTube has a wealth of information for taking photos of your jewelery.
Settings like the ISO and aperture should be set low, and use a manual focus. Practice your jewelry photography with the right settings in this free product photography video.
Photographing white jewelry on a white background can be a difficult shot to arrange. Learn ways to troubleshoot jewelry photography with this free product photography video.
A tilt-shift controlled perspective camera lens is great for photographing the complex planes of jewelry. Learn about lenses and practice your jewelry photography with this free product photography video.
Photographing jewelry may use a variety of lenses popular with professional photographers. Learn about lenses and practice your jewelry photography with this free product photography video.
Having a secure tripod is a must for professional photographers. Practice your jewelry photography with a quality tripod in this free product photography video.
Earrings should be photographed hanging to replicate how they are worn. Practice your jewelry photography on earrings with this free product photography video.
Getting rid of reflections in jewelry photography can be tricky. Practice your jewelry photography without unsightly reflections in this free product photography video.
To get the right light for jewelry photography, light underneath the subject. Practice your jewelry photography with the best lighting gear in this free product photography video.
Photography Tutorial - Vickie Hallmark
Great three part tutorial covering how to take good pictures of your jewelry.
Resize images with EZ Thumbnails
Free to download from this site. Easy to use programme.
Removing backgrounds in Paintshop Pro
From The Blue Dress - Very useful for artists who photograph their own jewellery. Step by step guide with pictures. Easy to follow and full of tips.
Syn's Webpages
Useful information about photographing silver. This site also contains a number of tutorials for using Photoshop to manipulate photo's.
Table Top Studio
This site has a huge range of resources and tutorials for photographing all types of jewellery including glass and beads. All the tips and tricks you need to take the best photographs. It also lists the tools needed to create great photos without spending a fortune.
Tips on Getting into Juried Publications - Lora Hart
Lora Hart was one of the jurers for the 2010 PMC Annual. In this blog post she shares her observations about the entries she evaluated and gives some great tips about how to get noticed in the jurying process. Well worth reading if you're intending to submit images for publication.
