Jewelry Photography Services

Jewelry Photography looks extra stunning and sparkly in catalogs and advertisements than in real life? Or why your diamond ring doesn’t look quite as stellar in the photos you’ve taken of them?

Photographing jewelry isn’t as easy as it sounds until the photographer understands and masters the keys to taking great pictures of them—sharpness, lighting, and exposure—and how to adjust them in each situation in order to achieve the best photos possible.

The first obvious step to taking beautiful jewelry photos is to make sure that your items are clean and polished. What may not seem obvious to the naked eye will be revealed once it gets blown up in the highly-detailed images taken by your digital camera.

Unless your items need some serious cleaning, you can simply remove dust and add shine to your jewels by wiping them down with a soft, damp cotton or microfiber cloth before the shoot. You can also wear cotton gloves so you don’t end up leaving fingerprint marks every time you handle them.

The most important piece of equipment you’ll usually need for jewelry photography is a macro lens. When shooting with a DSLR, compatible macro lenses ensure that you get the most spectacular images beyond life-size, which is why they don’t come cheap.

One of the things you need to consider when choosing a macro lens is that it helps to have two—one with a shorter focal length, which allows you to work much closer (as these typically have a very short minimum focusing distance) and reveal minute details in bigger pieces of jewelry; and another with a longer focal length, so you can conveniently shoot from a more comfortable distance.

Shooting close to your subject can also make the camera lens show up in the reflection, so you may want to create your own lens “hide”—a white piece of paper with a hole in the middle to conceal your gear and reflect some of the light towards your object.