Video: Managing Room Reflections in Jewelry Photography

Getting rid of reflections in jewelry photography can be tricky. Practice your jewelry photography without unsightly reflections in this free product photography video.

Video Transcript

Hi. I'm Michael Seto. In this clip we're going to talk more about managing the reflections on your piece of jewelry. In the earlier clip we talked about managing the reflection from your lights. The best way of doing that is defusing them either in a light tent or as you see here, we've put some diffusion material on top of our lights so they're not as bright, they're a little more even. Then next thing you want to be concerned with and look at is what of the surroundings are being reflected. I can see parts of the room here in the glass as well as on the stainless steel of this particular watch. So, what we're going to do is build our own little enclosure around this to manage the reflections. Just take an A-clamp, put it on a piece of white board. I'll put that there to manage the reflections coming off in the room. I'm not going to use the gold reflector because that's not going to be appropriate for stainless steel or white gold. I've got some other reflectors here again, silver on one side, white on the other. Really it's just a matter of trial and error here. The silver is going to bring out the color of the metal a little more intensely. It's going to be a little deeper and darker. If you use the white side, the metal is going to look a little more gray and a little more defused as well. So it really depends on what kind of look you're going for. After you've managed all the other reflections and defuse your lights, the last thing you want to think about is, how do you manage the reflection of you and the camera. That often is one of the most revealing reflections within a piece of reflective jewelry. What we're going to do manage our own reflection and that of the camera is something like this. Very simple, a piece of paper with a hole cut into it. What you're going to do is just hold that over the camera when you're shooting, and you're behind that and it's really only going to show the, the front end of the lens and minimize any black spots on the reflection. So, again, when you're managing the reflection on your jewelry, you're going to think about the lights, you're going to think about the surroundings and you're going to think about managing the reflection of yourself and the camera.

Managing Room Reflections in Jewelry Photography

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