Commercial Macro Photography By Brian Barrett
Every day, I take macro product images: a mixture of clients’ jewellery entrusted to me for work where I record before and after shots and my own manufactured items. The attached image is a 1ct octagonal diamond ring in platinum with four baguette diamonds on the shoulders that I have just finished for a client. The items are held on a small piece of clear wax on an opaque white sheet of Perspex, shot in a small lightbox with a top and bottom strobe and two Ulanzi fixed lights at the front. The strobes are triggered by a Yongnuo wireless controller. I usually use a Pentax 50mm macro lens but sometimes a Pentax 35mm macro. All the lights give me a shadowless image, but I need to reduce the light coming into the camera. Settings are f20, 1/125, 100 ISO, with a polarising filter. I processed the image in Lightroom and gave a slight vignette to contrast the white diamonds in white metal on a white background.
Brian Barrett BHB Designs Ltd brian@bhbdesigns.co.nz 04 476 4764 021 661 060
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