Yes it has been a while. I recently had the chance to shoot a large jewelry collection, ranging from antiques to gaudy 70ies gold bracelets. I had not had the opportunity to shoot tiny objects with excessive amount of reflections before so I was excited. I had to shoot many pieces in a short time, but I wanted to experiment and get a few interesting images rather than the usual clean on white background images for a catalog.
So I went for a simple geometric background and relied on contrast, shadows and bold colors to highlight the details. I wanted to highlight the 'substance' of these not so subtle pieces. So I used:
- black plexiglass
-white marble slab samples (from a bathroom remodeling project!)
- dark grey paper background
I also went for a macro lens, a stabilized Canon 100mm f2.8 which was super fun to use. I even used it handheld for a few shots (I know I know) and images were still quite sharp.
Set up: One softbox on top and a gridded strobe 1-2 stop down and behind the object, opposite to camera. (remember: the further away this light is the harder the shadows will be) Just remember that with a macro lens depth of field is truly minuscule so dial up your flashes, close down the aperture to f20+ and beware of glare. Minimal post processing, but make sure to clean up your set from dust!
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