Jewellery Photography Needs a Vision of Perfection

The important keys to wholesome jewellery photography are keenness, lighting and sparkle. And of course with perfection vision the mission can be accomplished well!

Reputable jewellery photography needs sharp and concise focus to achieve the finest effects. Accurate high-resolution cameras like Nikon and Cannon Digital Rebel with 100 mm macro lens will look at a wide area of jewellery that needs to be photographed and position it accurately. This is known as "spot focus" mode that allows precisely what the camera will be focusing on.  Sometimes many digital cameras cannot capture the small shiny gemstones.  For close-up, a camera with good manual focus ability is needed.

Soft Lighting effects work best for jewellery photography.  When a series of lighting is used the final image can be visualized. On-camera flash does not always lead to good photos. Occasionally the camera’s flash will be too bright at a close distance when taking pictures and will not light up the jewellery properly. They may also create harsh and distracting shadows, which are harmful when showing to the customers.

Fluorescent bulbs that are well compressed provide pleasant, natural-colour light and produce very little heat serving as an advantage during long photo sessions. A light white satin tent as a diffuser is used that makes it easy to reduce glares and control shadows for jewellery photography.  He will decide on what lights he wants when he is shooting jewellery items like gems, sapphires, rubies and how to add sparkle to diamonds.  The bulbs can be ‘daylight’ or ‘sepia toned’.

LED bulbs are considered as a diamond sparkler producing sharp quality images of the jewels. Camera must preferably be kept on spot mode where the close up photos of diamond, emerald or intricate stones are targeted.  While the photographer is shooting, the lens or the hand movement can get unsteady at times.  A tripod is absolutely essential to use as support enabling sharp images to be clicked effortlessly.

A professional photographer has to portray every precious diamond’s unique sparkle intricately in its metalwork.  Each piece of jewellery is patterned differently concerning its design, shape, finish and its opacity. The use of controlled lights will give brilliance to a particular piece of jewellery.  Implicit focus to capture the detail is very important.  Eventually the professional’s skill to regulate the components ensures that the mission is accomplished with patience.

The age of computers has enormously helped jewellery photography.  Many clients can browse online, choose and decide which jewellery they would like to adorn and purchase the same.  The shutterbug is also an expert at color balancing, converting white gold to yellow gold, changing the color of gemstones and can provide extensive retouching to make sure the products appear in their best light.  The photograph of the product will display the finesse; sparkle and design when different lights source bulb colors are blended during the shoot.  Preferably use 5000K daylight-balanced bulbs to produce a proper image.  Be sure that the entire lights match in color as the exact exposure brings out the best results.