Just a little note here: The store is back. It’s at http://shivae.net/store/. Nice and easy.
And here’s the things I’ve mentioned several times in the last couple of months, Glass Pendants made from my artwork. I made them myself. They’re sealed and protected and HEAVY and darn nice to look at in person. The photos really don’t do them justice. I need to figure out how to take better photos or get a newer camera (the latter, don’t want to.. my camera’s only two years old.) And here’s a closeup of one of them that I liked!
And a second one to show more of the lovely shine and thickness.
My first run at these is using 7/8 by 7/8 square glass tiles and 7/8 x 1 3/4 rectangle tiles. I searched and found 1 inch and 1 x 2 inch tiles for future ones … as well as special 2 x 2 inch ones and circles! I intend to offer some as special commissions in the future. Badges of a different kind.
3 thoughts on “Glass Pendants (3 Comments)”
Mika Kyubi
Hello, Tiff.
For the last roughly ten years I’ve worked in various sections of the jewelry industry, both supply and manufacturing of the pieces.
I would recommend for photographing a piece of jewelry the use of two, maybe even three lights. Wherever possible, place the item to be photographed on a white surface. Oddly, I’ve found a good piece of copy machine paper to be almost ideal. Try to get lights that are either daylight types or, if the images come out too orange with those, try cool white. The idea here is to flood the photo space with lots of light. The camera usually makes it look dimmer than it is, so what looks like too much might just be “just right”.
Any and all cleanup I recommend doing in GIMP or Photoshop, whichever you might have, by playing with levels, color balance, hue, saturation and brightness/contrast. The post-production editing will be what makes or breaks an already good image.
I’ve managed to get some awesome shots using a low-resolution old, out-of-date cheesy camera that recorded onto, of all things, a floppy disc, just by following what I said above.
I wish you the best of luck, hon. May it turn out wonderful!
Yours always,
Mika Kyubi
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Wow!! Thank you for the good advice!
Mika Kyubi
Any time, hon. I’m glad if it can help. ^_^
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