Mastering iPhone Jewelry & Small Product Photography

A look at the phone I'm using along with accessories that can help take out frustration with your gear when doing your small product photography.

Here we look at my main LED light source and the different adjustments that you can use with them to help you fine tune the final image that you'd like to get with them. We'll also look at other accessories, such as a shoe mount umbrella holder along with an umbrella that you can use to get a beautiful soft light source. Other accessories such as quick releases and light stands are also discussed.

If you're just starting out and on a very tight budget, using two of these very economical light sources can give you amazing lighting results, especially when combined with light modifiers.

Occasionally I'll add another light source, whether it's used as a kicker light or back light, this light can add in helping your item look even better.

This type of light source is relatively inexpensive and when adding the right light modifiers can produce outstanding images.

Window light can be a beautiful soft light source. In this segment we photograph our small product using window light along with a light modifier.

Here we go step by step as I make a simple but very effective reflector for our jewelry & small product photography.

Using several different types of reflectors, we can see the difference each one can make and help you choose which one works best for the item you are photographing.

If you're photographing gold or silver items, here's a light modifier that you must use to help you soften and reduce reflections. It will also help you enhance the tone of your gold or silver items.

In addition to your table, we look at a couple ways on which you can set up your backgrounds.

Here are more ways you can setup your background easily.

Using this type of table gives us the ability to minimize shadows and add backlight capabilities in the amount we choose.

In addition to white backgrounds, there are other backgrounds that we use to help make our product stand out .

Props can be an interesting way of making your items look their best. Here we look at several ways you can set them up and use them.

A look at customizing and getting the most from your light box.

A demo of how we set up props inside our light box along with light modifiers you can use.

This is the start of our heart necklace photoshoot using one of our props in the light box.

Our photoshoot continues as we start to look at the results you can get by shooting in Portrait Mode.

Using our hand prop, we can see the different results we get by our camera adjustments.

After we photograph our images using our light box, when it comes to image editing small product & jewelry photography there's 3 main things I do in my workflow for efficiency.

Using the iphone's built in camera app, along with two other apps for image editing, part 1 starts off our post processing of the heart necklace from our photoshoot.

Part 3 continues with a look at the 3 main reasons I want to do image editing to my jewelry & small product photography. Then, we discuss more on depth control.

A brief intro before we start our Face Jug photoshoot.

We start with a simple 1 light setup, then add light modifiers giving us more control over our final image.

Here's another interesting lighting setup and background you can use.

Using our plexiglass shooting table offers us a great opportunity to not only minimize shadows but also lets us use different backlit lighting effects to give us the look of spotlighting for achieving professional quality images easily.

Here's another interesting technique and some tips on using a Puluz light box for your photos.

This shows the gear and props as we set up to photograph the gold bracelet.

Using "Portrait Mode" in the iPhone, we're doing the actual gold bracelet photoshoot.

See the difference when we add a second light in photographing our gold bracelet.

Here's another setup we use to add more variety to our collection of images.

By adding a second light, along with our diffuser, we can greatly improve the gold tone in our bracelet. (see the improvement in our gold tone.)

Another look as we use overhead lighting along with a black & sparkle background.

See the different results we get when photographing this flower pin using 3 different variations.

Using 2 Dazzne D20 LED lights along with several light modifiers and our photo shooting table, we photograph a jade bracelet. You'll notice the difference adding certain light modifiers can make to your final image.

We can further improve the look of our images with a couple of tools in Snapseed when we want to get ride of unwanted dust spots, glare, and even add a little bit of enhancement to our image.

Looking for a good macro lens? No need to spend a lot of money on a new lens. Using the Camera +2 app on your phone or tablet can get you in close when you need to do macro photography. Shooting in Portrait Mode is another feature Camera +2 offers when you need to knock the background out of focus.

Here's a look at an app that lets you easily resize any of your images taken on your phone. Then, we look at another feature or two that can be very useful.

Transferring your photos from your phone to your desktop, laptop or portable hard drive is easy when you use this app.

Use this program to view and organize your images on your desktop or laptop. You can even do your image editing with this program.

When using your desktop or laptop, here's a few basic image editing techniques you can use in Adobe Photoshop.

Use this technique to make your product you are photographing stand out so the viewers attention goes more to your product.

Although this amazing program can be used for enhancing your jewelry or small product photography, you can also use it to enhance any other type of photography you are doing. With thousands of effects you can use to enhance your images, use it for portrait, landscape, wildlife, street, wedding photography and anything else you can capture.

A few last bits of advice

Sometimes things don't always go as planned, here's a look.

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