How to Photograph Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Rebecca Guenther with M5A1Photography.com, and I'm going to tell you how to photograph jewelry. The key here is to make sure that what your photographing is well lit, evenly lit, that there's no crazy shadows. But also that you're capturing whatever sparkle the jewelry has and whatever really nice colors it might have. You're going to want to start off by having, as a general rule, a seamless, which is just a large piece of paper that you roll out so that you can shoot head on and it looks like it just goes on forever. Then you're going to put your object, your piece of jewelry or your collection onto the paper, set it up the way you want it to look, have the lights on it, probably a two to three light setup, so that you have a main light, a fill light and a background light, depending on if you want the background completely white so you can cut the jewelry off from the background, which is often done. Then you're going to get your camera and you'll take the pictures that you want. And just keep in mind that you want it to look good as it possibly can because you're probably going to be selling the jewelry. And that's just a quick tutorial on how to photograph jewelery."