Lets Talk about Pics Fishy, lets talk about the Camera and Me....

Well my friends the time has come to attempt the impossible.
Thats right I am talking about taking photos of my Jewelry. It has been a painful and rocky (no pun intended, ok maybe a little) road, but I think I finally have a couple of useful suggestions.

The first I would like to discuss is the use of a Digital Camera.

Okay, digital camera... yuk?.. the pictures i took were either to dark or not clear enough even though I used a high resolution.
I tried them outside / inside / on a house with a mouse..
end result was not a pleasant one. I was just using a regular 7megapixel canon. it takes great photos, just not of jewelry

well maybe not so bad, for a first timer, the image I shot was based on a leather jacket idea. It was not toooooo bad.

Now, this actually was way more successful than using a digital camera.
My advise here is to use a fuax leather cover.
lay your jewelry piece on the scanner / cover completely with the leather
try it with or without the cover down. I found the cover down made a better picture / but the cover up worked fine except for it place pressure on the leather causing a rippled picture. I am going to try some colored leathers to see if it is the brown and texture that made all the difference or if it is the material of the leather itself. the picture i currently have is using some scoot gaurd ...muahaha.. didn't really turn out great.
but wasn't a complete flop. Again, I will be adding pictures for visuals soon.

turns out I know someone who just happens to take photos as a hobby. He used a high powered very very nice Canon Digital.
the pictures were made..ready for this? on the back of his brown leather jacket. I kid you not.- and they are great.
the resolution was wonderful so you can scan in close and the lighting was like this.

large brown no gloss wood kitchen table - next to a sliding glas door plus flash.

Moral of this story, you just have to keep practicing and as I find better methods or have easier results that you can DIY so to speak, I will post them. Visit www.beadbait.com for these stunning images. -- or at least images you can stand to look at.

More later from 'the fish".