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White Backgrounds & Jewelry Photography

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From Quick Guide: Photo Backdrops 101

Summary: 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.

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By Michael Seto, eHow Presenter

Michael Seto has been taking pictures for 25 years, starting at an early age with his father's Pentax K-1000. Now as a freelance photographer based in NYC he works in a number of...read more

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"In this clip we're going to talk about how to achieve a real pure white background for your jewelry. A lot of jewelers like to have their pieces shot against a white background. It's very plain. It highlights the jewelry itself and allows them to use it either in a catalog for print or on a website. So how do we achieve that? If we look down at our basic set up here, we've got the piece of white plexiglass. It can be a white piece of paper, but I'll tell you in a second why it should be plexiglass. If you try and light this piece of plexiglass to pure white you will tend to overexpose the jewelry so often the jewelery, the colors, will be a little bit blown out. There will be a lot of reflections and it'll just be too hot as we call it in the business. So if you're trying to get a pure white background you need to come up with another solution. We want to actually light this plexiglass from the bottom and that's going to give us a pure white background without overexposing the jewelry. So what we're going to do is we're going to actually lift this piece of plexiglass up and put a light under it in order to light it from the bottom and I'm going to talk about that and how to construct a light to go under there in the next clip."

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