Handmade Jewelry by the Window.

 

I shot a little collection of glazed ceramic  earrings. They are and handmade and painted my a Pacific Northwest artist. Every piece is unique!

The art director/artist   wanted  to shoot with natural light and to emphasize the organic feel of the collection, with a minimalist use of props. We used leather, a wood slate and some beach driftwood.

Shot with a wide aperture (f4.0) on an overcast day. Window light and  a white panel on opposite side for fill.

The wide aperture forced me to pay attention to the very narrow focal plane...imagine an inch or two thin slab perpendicular to the lens at about one or two feet away. Where to focus the viewer attention and how to angle the camera compared to the surface on which the earrings rested was the challenge of this shoot. I  handheld the camera rather than using a  tripod was too limiting for the amount of pieces and the time allowed.  I used a shutter speed of 1/80-1/100th and ISO100-200, depending on the light of that moment.

Minimal editing, just cropping and adding some local clarity/contrast and  tone warming.

 

It's a Fine Line

 I had the opportunity to shoot a line of fancy skin care products list for Fine Line .   These are the results. 

I kept post production to a minimum and tried to get a mix of interesting catalog shots and a few more splashy 'hero' shots, where I played with the bottles as if they were skyscrapers.  The one with the incense smoke was a superposition of a few different images.  Keep your windows open before before the studio gets too smokey :).