Be creative and conquer more clients

In jewellery photography, specifically shooting rings, being creative requests more than skills and also needs a good quantity of working time beyond of your on knowledge.

Is everything about exposition?

By Daniela Riego

Photographing rings is one of the trickiest subjects to understand and master. To shoot that kind of jewellery, sometimes it’s a chance to sneak away from the hustle and bustle of the piece and create something truly epic for clients.  

Let’s talk about ideas.

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could create more dynamic, interesting, and unique ring shots, then read on to learn about some of the things that can keep your ring shot game fresh and new.

Photographing jewellery faces two major obstacles, they are: the reflections and the stillness of small objects.

Thinking about it, I'll give some tips for useful accessories to make your photo professionally and more efficiently without spending too much, or rather without throwing money in the bin.

If you are trying to make the most money possible from the sale of your jewellery, you MUST have excellent photos.

Reflectors:

The key here is to make sure some of your light is hitting the sparkly object(s) so that you get a nice sparkly bokeh in the background. I also advise using mirrors or reflective surfaces during ring shots.  I mean, who doesn’t love a double dose of diamonds?

Stands:

Stands for necklace, bracelet, earing and rings.

Black, white acrylic: These are used commonly in jewellery and other small product photography to create stunning reflections underneath your products. 

Positioning wax: This amazing product is the secret weapon of many jewellery and coin photographers.  Just a small pinch of positioning wax can be molded and used to make rings, coins and other small items stand up on end.  It is virtually invisible to the camera. 

Keep an eye on the end result of your work. Be sure to compare your photos with the more experienced photographers, it is common to miss on the tone of gold, leaving too yellow pieces or silver with metal face.

When in doubt, search too!

Be creative! With experience you will see that seemingly useless objects can save many hours of work.