Photographing Jewelry Findings, Beads and MetalSmithing Projects

One of the things that we find amazing – yet not too often talked about is jewelry photography. We are always amazed at how everyone seems to magically make their jewelry projects look simply amazing.

As we all know, sometimes it’s not that easy. I mean sure, taking a photo and uploading it is one thing, which in itself can be a challenge, but making it look as special as it really is — well, that’s really hard. Not to mention time consuming.

If your like us we’ll take any tips we can get. Plus, they are fun to read.
Occasionally we find a good read or a few tips here and there, so for those who work hard at the workbench and sometimes loath the photo bench, here’s a few articles we find fun to read.

So whether your photographing findings, gemstones, or your latest metalsmithing project, hopefully you’ll enjoy these few tips on taking photos for jewelry.

Here is a little tutorial on a $12 studio.

And a few tips on a basic set up.

How to make silver shine.

The author, Mariano, does great photography and You can find out more about him here.

This place has a few pointers. For example how to stand up items using wax.

And if you really want to get entrenched into the jewelry photography world, you can try this place.

The main this is have fun and enjoy the process. You spent a long time crafting that special project, step back, rejoice, have fun, and take time taking a nice photo of it.