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daveob64
Joined: 26 Sep 2013
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:46 am Post subject: General Advice |
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I am trying to take a half decent photos of jewellery for our stores. I am just in the process of upgrading gear to Canon EOS 60d and Canon Macro 100mm lens. I have Photoshop cs6 and a light box. The final photos I want just have to be clean and bright, they do not have to be arty or super stylish. Some will be website and some for print publication.
So what I guess I really need is some advice on where best to put my time into learning and practising. Am I better trying to learn how to take the perfect picture and spending little time in PS. Or am I better learning some basic steps in PS and just taking relaitively poor(wrong word) photos.
If you were starting out with this where would you invest your time and money?
Thanks
Dave
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Rarity
Joined: 27 Nov 2012
Posts: 329
Location: The Netherlands
PS Version: CS6
OS: Windows 8
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I'm not too much of a photographer myself - besides any stocks I might need for projects and stuff etc. - but what I do know is that product photography done right is a subject in itself, and jewellery photography another speciality within that.
I do have found some basic retouching lessons (it's text and video) by this guy on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/exclusifworld/videos
And some tips on taking the actual photos:
http://www.tabletopstudio.com/jewelry_photography.html
I would try to get a photo and use the Youtube lessons to try to retouch it to your liking. There's only that much that Photoshop can do though, so use the general tips of the second site (a tripot would really help as I haven't seen you mention using one) to have a bit more knowledge on what to keep in mind making your photos.
Hope this helps you getting on the right track.
Grtz,
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Cheltenham, UK
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Getting it right in camera will always mean a lot less post processing, it's not really an either or scenario.
I would investigate light boxes and similar (or make a home-made one) if you plan on taking a large amount of jewellery images.
That and get good at Photoshop.
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daveob64
Joined: 26 Sep 2013
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. That at least gives me a starting point and a bit of direction.
David |
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