Photographing Jewelry Flatware Glassware For Ebay

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I am moving all of my eBay Photography guides to another location. These new guides use larger illustrations and make it easier to find the info you need. Topics you will want to read include Cameras, Controls and Settings and Basic Lighting Techniques.

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In this Guide, I'll discuss the use of light tents and other lighting techniques for jewelry, flatware and glassware.

These Guides have been adapted from two eBay Workshops I recently hosted and are based on my experience as a product photographer and as a successful eBay seller.

Creating Soft, Diffused Light

In my guide on Basic Lighting Techniques, I talk about the importance of soft lighting to help to show off the shape and texture of a subject. However, shiny subjects, such as jewelry, flatware or metallic objects, need even more diffused light to avoid harsh, glaring highlights.

For this, you need an even, surrounding light source. One way of creating that is with a light tent.

Light Tents

This lighting tool is used often by professional product photographers and commercially-made light tents have become popular with eBay sellers. You'll see hundreds of these for sale if you do an eBay search for "light tent" in the Cameras and Photos category. Most of them are sold under some variation of the "Cube. These are essentially small, white, cube-shaped tents, with one side open to shoot into with a camera.

I haven't used one of these small commercial light tents commonly sold on ebay mainly because I'm too cheap to pay for something that's so easy to make myself.

Any light tent is s... ...read the full guide >>>