Assignment #58: Jewelry

Nikolai

Jewelry is surprisingly hard to photograph properly. Shiny and tiny, it tends to reflect everything around it, go out of focus faster than a racing car and cause all other possible problems for a person who tries to photograph it.
Nevertheless, this week we're going to take a shot at it.
Our goal is to create an image of a jewelry that would be suitable for one or several of the potential customers:

1. Online jewelry store (white page, no visible b/g)
2. Fancy magazine full page ad (dark artsy b/g)

Start with rings. Advance to earrings. Finish up with chains, bracelets and/or pendants.

As always, fresh images only.

Let's get bejeweled!

Antonio Correia

What a coincidence !

Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

What a coincidence !

Indeed
By trust me, I'm coming with the subjects all by myself!

Antonio Correia

Nikolai wrote:

Indeed
By trust me, I'm coming with the subjects all by myself!

That did not come to my mind !

ShepsMom

Ok, i tried, i really did, i swear. I promis no to do it EVER again!!!

Artsy-fartsy my butt!!!

















OK, Before you yell at me for posting tons of shots, i just have to repeat, i did try and this is the proof. I just spent 1 hour shooting these OMG. Thank you for the laughs anyway!! Now i need to go back and do something more productive!

Nikolai

ShepsMom wrote:

Ok, i tried, i really did, i swear. I promis no to do it EVER again!!!

Artsy-fartsy my butt!!!
...
OK, Before you yell at me for posting tons of shots, i just have to repeat, i did try and this is the proof. I just spent 1 hour shooting these OMG. Thank you for the laughs anyway!! Now i need to go back and do something more productive!

Marina,
I lreally like the first 4 , the rest it kinda meh
Thank you for trying!

Antonio Correia

My try without macro lens. Just the 24-70
I know it has too much shadows, that the shadows inside the ring are not very nice, that the shadow of the ring to the right is not nice ... but I tried.
More ? Yes, later.:D




Nikolai: b/g stands for what ?


Shot with my home-made macro lens !
I know, it's not perfect. The background is not very ... black ?

Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

ring

Thank you!

Moni

I shot these as a creative fashion editorial:

Antonio Correia

Very sensual henn ? No white pages however

Antonio Correia

No white pages either :toni :deadhorse

ShepsMom

Moni, very nice work!

Antonio, did you use frozen fish for your rings???? scratch

Antonio Correia

ShepsMom wrote:

...Antonio, did you use frozen fish for your rings???? scratch

No, I didn't.

This was our dinner. Grilled with letuce and tomatoe salad

Nikolai

Moni wrote:

I shot these as a creative fashion editorial:

Moni, these are great! I like the theme!

Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

Very sensual henn ? No white pages however

Interesting... But yes, I'd prefer more standard background. This one has too much light/texture in it, so it distracts fromt he primary subject...

Antonio Correia

I think this time you will like this photo Nikolai.
However, I am aware that it is far from beeing a good photo. I do know it could be improved. But I don't have two flashes, nor ... well... excuses

Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

I think this time you will like this photo Nikolai.
However, I am aware that it is far from beeing a good photo. I do know it could be improved. But I don't have two flashes, nor ... well... excuses

You're right, that's what I'm after!
And I said in the very beginnning that shooting jewelry is tough (almost like women who like it so much:-)

Antonio Correia

Nikolai wrote:

You're right, that's what I'm after!
And I said in the very beginnning that shooting jewelry is tough (almost like women who like it so much:-)

I am going to try in some hours an idea I just had as I was walking my daily 3,5 kms ! ...

frg

First try
Just could not nail the focus with the closeup flter:cry dof extremely narrow ..... gonna try again later

Nikolai

frg wrote:

Just could not nail the focus with the closeup flter:cry dof extremely narrow ..... gonna try again later

Nice first try, thank you!

entropysedge

Here's my first try at this one:



Taken with my Fuji S5 and Sigma DC18-50mm 1:2.8 macro f/22 ISO 200 aperture piority. Cropped in CS3, then replace color, hue saturation and unsharp mask.

Nikolai

entropysedge wrote:

Here's my first try at this one:
Taken with my Fuji S5 and Sigma DC18-50mm 1:2.8 macro f/22 ISO 200 aperture piority. Cropped in CS3, then replace color, hue saturation and unsharp mask.

Thank you!

Since it's not on a white b/g I assume this is supposed to be fancy magazine ad. WIth that in mind I'd say too much of a too bright b/g and not enough accent on the earrings themselves..

Jed Smith

Seems like these assignments should be a good time to learn how for a new beginner like myself. See what you think, hopefully I stayed within the "rules" of play. The resolution isn't the best as these were all taken with the kit zoom lens (18-55)--that's my best excuse and I'm sticking with it.


Wasn't sure if reflective white surfaces went with the theme...




Note: the reddish on the back is real and is why someone will be getting a new ring after this it would seem. Supporting it over the surface with a paperclip requires tape, not just bending the paperclip around the ring...


Ah, what wonders b/w does for removing that pesky problem...now if only it were that easy in real life...

entropysedge

Atempt #2:

Nikolai

Jed Smith wrote:

Seems like these assignments should be a good time to learn how for a new beginner like myself. See what you think, hopefully I stayed within the "rules" of play. The resolution isn't the best as these were all taken with the kit zoom lens (18-55)--that's my best excuse and I'm sticking with it.

...
Ah, what wonders b/w does for removing that pesky problem...now if only it were that easy in real life...

Thanks, Jed, great entries!

Nikolai

entropysedge wrote:

Atempt #2:

Thank you!
Uhm, I'm not sure. Now it looks plasticky.
Please check Jed's entry above, this is more what I had in mind...

Moni

Luxe black background
Ok, here are my tries at a black background.







This is so hard to focus...I need a macro lens.

I held the ring up with a back wire (you can see the dark part on the right side) that I cloned out after.
The extra lighting is with a flashlight with a rather blue light.



The gold itself is a little dinged -- they are my rings and I've had them 5 yrs now.

-- I should add, my rings are white gold...

Nikolai

Moni,

Moni wrote:

Ok, here are my tries at a black background.

Thank you, nice entries!
I told you, jewelry IS hard to shoot

doug pettway

alrighty, i have new appreciation for those who photograph these little buggers.

Here are two pics of my wedding band.





i've really got to get some dedicated photographic lighting for stuff like this.

Nikolai

doug pettway wrote:

alrighty, i have new appreciation for those who photograph these little buggers.
Here are two pics of my wedding band.
i've really got to get some dedicated photographic lighting for stuff like this.

Thank you, glad you're getting some ideas:-)

Chrissiebeez_NL

hi all!

inspired by the reversed lens macro i decided to try some jewelry with it

Just an hour into trying to focus with it i got this. what do you think?