Well, at first, when I held the almost a thousand pounds worth Nikon camera, I felt really excited and since it was new to me, I had lots of fun. My auntie had to buy a special macro lenses as well, so it all added up!
Initially, it started off with my sister getting frustrated at the difficulty of shooting jewellery, and then I said, "can I have a go," and she was like, "yeah," so I did and it sure was fun. Then, after we took a couple of good shots, my sister began to play with the levels of brightness, contrast and colour on the computer, then she began to clean it on Photoshop (to make the background white and all the shadows gone etc). Having cleaned jewellery before, I reeeaaally didn't want to clean anymore, so my sister got me to do the photographing whilst she cleaned. The lighting was still so bad though, after five 5500k fluorescent lights were shone (not directly, of course) at the tiny, little piece of silver and stone.
However (a comeback!), after experimenting, we found out that the best source of light was the Sun!!! Good news. But we are in England after all and the sun is hardly ever out, but lucky for us, just two or three days of the Sun appearing can finish hundreds of photographs! xD We set the tent out outside, so we directly in the Sun (hence I got sunburnt). The Sun is best from around 10am-5pm at the end of August. ^^ We didn't even need any lamps!
But... (dun dun dunn) at times the Sun was too bright, causing the jewellery's edges to be too bright and then you wouldn't be able to distinguish the background to the product (that has something to do with the aperture as well, but that was taken care of), so we had to use one of the huge lamp tripods and stick the anti-reflective shield thing to block some out, but it had to be at the right angle, or it would have been too dark and when the Sun was at just the right light, we had to move it out of the way and back again... U.U
Finally, we got it all photographed, which was very fortunate, or we'd have to return next time to finish it all off! Now, all that needs to be done is the cleaning, and that's the worst part! It takes like, 20 minutes to clean one photo! And choosing the best photo is also very hard... Ah well, I'll do my best! (Though I haven't even cleaned one since I returned home... shh!)
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