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Lighting Jewelry for Photography

Jewelry photography requires careful attention to light, reflections and refractions. Practice your jewelry photography with the best lighting gear in this free product photography video.

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Hi. I'm Michael Seto. I'm a professional photographer in New York City. In this clip we're going to talk about starting to light your piece of jewelry and beginning to work with that light to get the image that you want. As I look through the view finder at this piece in the center, I realize that the one light wasn't giving me the reflections off of the gold chain or the brass chain there that I really like. So what I did was, I brought a second light in and turned that on and now I'm much happier with the, the reflection that I'm getting. It looks a little more even and it's coming out very nicely. When you're starting and working through trial and error, you want to start simple. Go with one light first, see how that looks. If you need another light, then add a second light and that way as you build upon your setup for each piece, you can come out with the exact image that you're looking for. Whether you're putting in reflectors or taking or adding away light, that's going to give you the final image that's going to impress your client and hopefully impress the people you're working with. Thanks.

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Lighting Jewelry for Photography

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