04-18-2011, 10:57 AM
Like, catalogue style jewellery shots? From my own experience, tripod and camera makes the least difference, with the exception of the lens - in this case the longer (I use 105mm) the better, as short lenses don't work well with lightcubes <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' />
The thing which matters is the light - my basic set-up is studio desk with backlight and 2 softboxes (+1 overhead sometimes), however it often depends on the type of jewellery. For example it helps having really strong backlight for glass beads, but it's completely opposite with pearls (loses the contour). Lightcube is a must for silver, however hard light is needed for diamonds, otherwise they look dull, and so on and so forth. So it's sort of difficult to speak of some “standard†set-up. Plus there’s a heap of small accessories to make my life easier, such as LED sparklers for diamonds, frame with fishing line for earrings, black cardboard for silver outlining, white curtains for very reflective surfaces, etc, etc <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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The thing which matters is the light - my basic set-up is studio desk with backlight and 2 softboxes (+1 overhead sometimes), however it often depends on the type of jewellery. For example it helps having really strong backlight for glass beads, but it's completely opposite with pearls (loses the contour). Lightcube is a must for silver, however hard light is needed for diamonds, otherwise they look dull, and so on and so forth. So it's sort of difficult to speak of some “standard†set-up. Plus there’s a heap of small accessories to make my life easier, such as LED sparklers for diamonds, frame with fishing line for earrings, black cardboard for silver outlining, white curtains for very reflective surfaces, etc, etc <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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