Accessories for Jewelry Photography

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Michael Seto and in this clip we're going to talk a little bit about some of the miscellaneous gear you need, other than your camera, lights, plexi-glass and so forth, to accomplish some good jewelry photography. Jewelry photography is a lot about improvisation and trouble shooting. So you need a lot of different things to help you trouble shoot as you're shooting. Very important, mirrors. I get mirrors of all different sizes. This helps you reflect light onto whatever you're shooting if there's a spot that doesn't have as much light. Something like this, just a basic earring holder that you can get at any jewelry shop, often helps you hold up the earrings for photography. As well, you can get this little ring holder that often allows you to support the ring in a standing position if you want to photograph it that way. If you don't use that, you can use this. This is modeling clay. It's just a little bit putty that you can use to stick things together and hold things together when you're shooting. Sometimes small flashlights help. This is an LED flashlight to maybe bring out a little more sparkle or put some light where you don't have it. Then every photographer is familiar with these. These are A-clamps, spring-loaded clamps that can be pretty much for anything and we'll see a little more of that in some of the later clips. Finally last but not least, this is a funny little thing, it's called the third hand. Jewelers use this a lot. It just sits down on the table and you can clip all sorts of things onto it to either block, reflect, or enhance the light or hold other pieces of jewelry off camera. Thank you."