Jewelry Photography: Year One in Review

In my last post before Macro Sunday, I mentioned I planned to give you some comparison photographs of the same items taken at different times and settings.   I could give you multitudes of examples, some worse than others, but I'll try to stick to a few of varying degrees of worseness... worsestness... worsenisity!  (I know, I was an English major once!)


Spoiler Alert:

• If you are the kind of person who loves really bad movies, this is for you.

• If really bad movies make you want to close your eyes during the bad parts, better close them now.  There are no moving pictures here, but some photos will be "scary bad," "laughably bad," or just plain old "bad, bad."

Here goes...

At the beginning of the year, I was just starting up, 

with a plan to sell wholesale to local businesses.

These were pendants I had just tagged before taking out.

The photo was just for my benefit.

I look at that and think "Not too bad."

"WHAT?" you are thinking?

Well, I know that the 

 other 8 photos looked like variations of this....

(I warned you this might be scary!)

From that same "photo shoot"

comes this bracelet that 
I've photographed many, many times.  
I never had that posted anywhere, thank goodness...
well I guess until now.)

Let's try this one for a comparison.

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My son so did not approve of this one!

I took several of bracelets this way...

until he insisted I stop...

thank goodness!

Can you imagine how proud I was when I got to this stage?!

Goodness, it was pretty much in focus, 

showed some sparkle and shine,

and if there was a bit of a blue hue about it,

at least it went nice with the blue bracelet!

So, better focus, brighter color and sparkle, 

but it's still going to need another go on another surface...

So many tries and still not quite right.

I'm going to make this next one short and sweet.

When I first started, I tried photographing 

against a variety of fabrics. 

(Typically just one fabric per photo--  

I can't imagine why this one had 3!

This is SO bad!)

Not to mention that the silver wire looks gold.

Even on the wrinkled fabric,

an improvement?

True colors at least!

And the last set for today...

Another "no brainer" really.

Early photo.

It really does happen to be on blue fabric this time!

It just doesn't scream, "Buy me!"

And two new ones below...

...which I hope look more appealing!

Thanks for reading another chapter of "Sharyl's Photography Horror Story!"  I could continue with more of these, but enough fun at my expense for a little while!  Ha!  :-)    Something different next time.   

See you then!   --Sharyl

P.S.  A few notes:

• Please do feel free to comment on any of these photos.  I can "take it!"  :-)   Your suggestions were very helpful last time!

• I loaded new jewelry into the studio last night, some for Valentine's Day, some just for fun!   Also started a new "On Sale Now!" section.

We're getting there on Facebook!  As of tonight, we have 16 out of the 25 needed "Likes."  I realize not everyone is on Facebook and not everyone may care to "like" the page, not a problem.  But I do want to offer a "Thank you" if yours is one of those "likes!"  And thanks to each of you for the shows of support you offer in so many different ways!  All the best to all of you!


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