The Magic of Jewelry

almost 4 years ago

Time to time it is very nice to switch to some unusual photography topic, not what I'm doing almost every day. Macro is a good choice in this respect and jewelry in particular, having in mind that do have in my home studio a LED light box for those purposes

So lets start with a general view or this armband and how close I can manage to shoot using standard 100 mm macro lens

Well, looks pretty cool, but nothing too much extraordinary. But lets mount another 1-5x macro lens, and here the real fun begins... Much closer look gives the viewer completely another and unusual dimension. That's what we do not really see just by our eyes in a daily life. And that's why such photos are much more attractive and interesting

And finally, a bit of un-focusing the lens brings one more dimension to the photos. More like a mystic one with all those strange combinations of light and shadows of the pretty stunning bokeh

All shots done with camera placed on tripod with blocking the mirror. While retouch is only basic via Lightroom only. It could be achieved much more sharpness and details, but every single phot requires quite a lot of time for additional processing if to go through Photoshop too