How to take a good jewel with a camera

The three elements of jewellery jade jade jewelry shooting, the picture of jewelry jade jewelry want to take a good look, beautiful and attractive, there are three key elements.

One: background composition

The composition background of jade jewelry and other jewelry, different kinds of jewelry have different characteristics, for different characteristics, clever composition of the set can reflect the beauty of the jewelry itself.

For jade shooting, because jade is mostly green, white, cyan and other cool colors, when shooting, you should consider the hue color of the jewelry itself, and use a certain color contrast yellow, warm brown and other colors on the background, more Can reflect the cool color feeling of jade. Jade has its own culture, the special nature of rhyme, with a wooden or bamboo and other materials as a background, not only to contrast and cold jade green color on color, color and more Bingqing take out items, and can be well represented The cultural charm of jade.

The jade itself is gentle and delicate, and the texture is smooth. When choosing the background, if the texture of the background can be rougher, it can more strongly set off the texture of the jade. Some people say that using parchment, bamboo slips, etc. are good choices, and even the texture of an old mat is very good. We can exploit the use of all kinds of debris around, try different background shot out of different feelings.

In selecting the background, pay attention to color contrast can not be too strong, gaps and color jade itself not too much contrast, contrast is too large, easily lead to distortion, especially beginners, select the contrast is too great background, you want to shoot ideal, there are some difficulties in terms of exposure metering, it is best avoided.

Camera lens depth of field, the picture is patterned into a very important phase of reflected, clever use of depth of field distance relationship, to better highlight the theme, beautifying the whole picture effect.

Crystal jewelry shooting background composition:

The crystal jewelry itself is colorful and relatively bright. I think that the best way to reflect the beauty of crystal is actually a white background or a simple black background. The background of other colors can easily disturb the color of the whole picture. It affects the expression of the theme, but it is not good.

White background, not a piece of white paper with a pure white, a fine white texture with a fine texture, is more aesthetic than a white piece of white paper, and can play a rich picture. Does not affect the theme expression, and is not too monotonous. My usual background is my white silk vest. White pillows...etc. There are also many white flocking cloths and so on.

When choosing the background of the flannel, remember to choose black velvet as the background as much as possible. The photo on the gold velvet will come out with a lot of white spots, which is very bad. It should be done under the conditions of a strict indoor studio. For general shooting, it is best to avoid using it as much as possible.

Gemstone Diamond Inlay Jewelry Shooting:

The inlaid jewellery of diamond gemstones is small in size, shiny in gloss, and has a good background with a black leather on the background. The contrast is large, the gloss is dazzling, and it is more attractive.

Of course, the white background and the rich scenery of the composition are not excluded. In particular, colored gemstone inlays, clever use of white and some embellishments, combined with the use of depth of field, will produce very beautiful photos.

Two color balance (white balance)

The expression of color is very important for jewellery and jade photography. Sometimes the color is a little bit different and completely distorted. Color balance is relatively simple to grasp, the white balance of each brand camera is not the same, when you buy a camera, pay attention to choose a suitable white balance is better.

Generally speaking, jewelry photography, automatic selection, manual prediction of white balance, daytime, these several white balance methods are better.

Auto is a color mode in which the camera automatically adjusts the color balance;

Manually predicting white balance is an exposure method that separately measures and then sets the color mode according to different lighting conditions for each shooting;

During the day, it is usually selected during daytime shooting. The photos taken are brighter, warmer and more saturated than automatic.

I am used to choosing the automatic white balance mode.

When shooting the camera, there will always be a little bit of color cast. The color is not necessarily 100% accurate. If you can have a little photoshop drawing skills, you can post-correct the color and correct the more accurate colors.

However, the premise is as true as possible, not recommended for the picture is beautiful, deliberate use of post-processing, do the beautiful beauty of the color distortion too much.

Three: skillfully use light, and exposure to phase, picture clarity.

These are three questions, put together for convenience

Separately explain

1. Use light to reflect the crystal texture.

Someone asked me why the same thing is sometimes so transparent, transparent, and the glass is particularly strong. Sometimes it feels very uncomfortable to shoot. It is the same thing. Why is the gap so large?

In fact, it is the relationship between light and the thing itself, as well as the angle of the camera.

The best source of light is the natural source. Any studio, shooting light source, is to chase the daylight. Of course, during the day, it is not good to shoot all the time. It is ideal to take pictures in two time periods.

At noon, the sun is straight on the top of the head, and the angle of the light is straight down. It is difficult to shoot.

Better shooting time is 9.30-11:00 am and 2.00-4:30 pm

(It is the general time, the latitude and longitude of the country, the sunshine is not the same, everyone treats according to the situation of their own city)

Shooting at this time, if the light source is at the outermost level, and the object is at an angle of several tens of degrees, and then the camera, the light is struck from behind and transmitted through the subject, and the shot will be very transparent, and the crystal is very good.

Conversely, if you place the object flat on the table, the camera lens will shoot vertically downwards, and the effect will probably not appear.

Some people put pendants, bracelets, etc. between the two fingers, let the light from outside the house, through the objects, the lens in the room, in the darkest place, so that the effect is so transparent, that is, the use of light and objects The projection relationship.

Many times cloudy days, or shooting time can not be moved to the day, need indoor shooting, indoor photography is more complicated than lighting. At least two or three light sources are required to be beautiful and true. And the technical difficulty of shooting is much higher, so I won't go into details here.

2. Exposure to phase relationship

Everyone does not understand the law of exposure,

Exposure to phase: The higher the exposure, the more the picture will be brighter, the more detail will be reduced. The lower the exposure, the more details will be reflected. I will set a little lower exposure when shooting, and then brighten later.

According to the situation of your camera, you choose the appropriate exposure, in order to reflect the texture of the jewelry as carefully as possible, to find the appropriate amount of exposure.

3. Picture clarity

Image clarity is important for embossing items, especially the beautiful texture of the jewellery itself. If the clarity is not enough, it will lose a lot of beautiful texture. It is recommended that you try to choose a camera with a high pixel point. When setting the picture size, set it to the maximum. When the picture is taken, the file size is large, and it is moved into the computer and then zoomed out, so the picture is very clear. There are also some post-processing methods that can improve the clarity of the picture. You can use it to improve the picture quality, and more clearly and beautifully reflect the texture of the jewelry.

When many people press the shutter, they are not stable, and the tripod is very troublesome to use. Here I teach you a little trick. Look for a small box with a large gap between height, width and height. It is the best colorless and transparent (I used a cotton swab box bought by the supermarket). The different lengths of the three sides of the box are equal to three tripods of different heights. It's enough to shoot anything. It's very convenient to change the side of the box at another angle. When you press the shutter, it will not be empty again. The transformation is flexible and more useful than a tripod.