Summer Craig of Summer Craig Jewelry recently asked me to photograph a few of her pieces to go along with her website make-over. She came to me with ideas in mind of what she wanted the final images to look like. A clean, crisp white background was a must. I quickly did a Google search of 'how to take pictures of jewelry.' On a side note, seriously...how would we know how to do anything without Google?! Up popped tutorials and advertisements for light boxes. Well, given I don't have a large clientele in the jewelry business, I couldn't justify spending any substantial amount of money on pre-fab, brand-spankin'-new light box and all the accessories it entails.
However, during my net surfin' I fortunately stumbled across a crafter's blog, who also photographs her wares as a hobby. She created a step-by-step tutorial on building you own light box with these simple materials: cardboard box (check!), white tissue paper (check!) and white poster board (added to the week's grocery list...check!). Cheers for the fragile DIY-ers out there! Hubby and I went to town with the utility razor cutting out holes on each side of the box (we had plenty of boxes to choose from since our recent move) and taping white tissue paper over the cut-outs.
With much sweating from the all lights, flashes and just plain frustration of figuring something out the first time, we ended up with these shots....
Ta-Da!!
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