[purpleshiny.com] Indoor photography

[rivenwanderer]

I'm still trying to clean up my living room and studio after the chaos of last weekend's con... but I managed to clear off the secondary studio table and construct a primitive lightbox. A lightbox is something for diffusing and reflecting light for getting better macro photography. There are plenty of online tutorials for making them (the one I made was similar to this or this). I also started exploring some of the manual settings on my digital camera (it's a Canon Powershot A610).



I still haven't figured out the best combination of settings, and I'm thinking of switching to a more neutral background--but as you can see, it's possible for me to take clear, adequately-lit photos with my camera and this lightbox. That means I can take Etsy photos without regard for the time of day or the weather! This makes the idea of working through my backlog of jewelry to list it a bit less intimidating.

Originally posted at purpleshiny.com. Feel free to comment here or there.

Comments

[phi]

Beautiful piece! I definitely think you need a less busy background though. Not necessarily a neutral color, but something without so much texture.

[rivenwanderer]

*nod* I'm definitely going to experiment with backgrounds some more--I was experimenting with this one because I'm used to photographing it. Maybe I'll take a bunch of pictures with the same setting and different backgrounds and put them all side-by-side to see what looks the best.