Creative Ring & Jewellery Photography

Hi guys i am Ben from adaptalux and in these days we're taking a appear at taking pictures some jewelry some rings so i've obtained a nice little engagement ring here that i am going to be capturing today so let's get started so before we get began taking pictures today's field this excellent little engagement ring I wanted to present a rather big shout out to everyone that came to see is at the the images exhibit on the NEC in Birmingham last month these of you who got here through our stand thanks so much for coming to talk to us thank you a lot in your support over the past three years of us being on the show and within the honor of the exhibit that's why we're gonna be capturing this this little ring this is without doubt one of the demos that I used to be giving to folks live on the exhibit simply lights this ring in quite exciting methods to be equipped to manipulate the reflections on one of these vivid area and to be ready to get some fairly intriguing highlights and trap lights just a bit bit out of the norm so what would the norm be for capturing jewellery like this well marriage ceremony photographers they're often going to move out and maybe throw some fairy lights in the history use the common gentle across the venue and to be competent to you realize really ad-hoc this if you're in a studio setup you perhaps using say a softbox or might be a ring gentle so that's what i'm gonna do to start with i am going to seize the gorgeous normal ring mild that I've got here on the front of the lens and it is simply have a rapid appear what that appears like through the viewfinder and then we're gonna you recognize scan a little bit bit and notice what we can do with it our lighting fixtures so present day established within the kitchen right here today it'll be a gorgeous simple one some thing that you simply guys can effortlessly do at residence should you've got some fine jewelry pieces that you simply'd wish to shoot i'm utilizing a Tokina 100mm F2.8 lens on the minute I've obtained this little very simple ring light hooked up here I might be utilizing the Adaptalux Studio in just a little even as however I simply wanted to illustrate how a basic ring gentle like this which has got left and correct control and then full it is pretty simple but it's no longer fairly going to provide us the fine outcome from reflective subjects like this little shiny gold ring here the key to taking pictures whatever like that is going to be controlling the reflections and i will show you how that how we will try this in just a little whilst so our shooting floor is quite exciting today as good i'm going to be shooting on some some slate so I've bought a few exceptional quite fascinating pieces of slate right here and i particularly prefer to to shoot rings and jewellery just on slightly piece of slate like this so when you've bought any any little portions of stone lying around at home they may be relatively interesting to shoot extra metal bright objects on considering that it is a fine distinction between the reflective surface of the gold and the gemstones with the variety of the stupid jagged unrefined textures of stone of slate so if you are a marriage ceremony photographer and you're watching to get some rather intriguing photographs of rings it is well valued at interested by taking a bit of piece of slate like this alongside on your shoots if you happen to've bought the space in your bag in view that if there's no nice surfaces or interesting areas to shoot on the venue you could continuously grab this little piece of stone out of your bag and shoot on that to get a rather fine floor so I've received my digicam on somewhat tripod I've obtained my slate mounted right here and i've received my ring gentle became on but before I taking pictures i am simply going to provide this ring only a tiny little little bit of a clean simply using a lens material for the reason that when you are getting this shut fingerprints dirt dirt they are all going to show up fairly rather it appears on to your discipline so i am just gonna location this roughly within the right spot there and now this is most likely a shot you can take freehand i'm simply going to make use of this mini tripod just so that the photos that you just guys are seeing is at the least a bit bit steady so watching by way of the camera you could simply see that that's fair decently restrict it's style of uninteresting there's a number of reflections there that i don't relatively like and now that brings us on to our subsequent factor which is some of these reflections are virtually coming from the ambient lights right here in my kitchen so i'm simply gonna flick those off and we will see what change that makes so you'll discover there that with out these kitchen lights grew to become on there may be somewhat bit less light in right here and it is slightly bit much less exciting for those who ask me there's still a couple of best little capture lights in there nevertheless it's making one of the crucial areas of the image too darkish and one of the areas of the photograph to mild within the reflections of those gem stones and at the back of the ring and that i wish to take manipulate over precisely the place those reflections are and maybe add a bit of bit extra visual curiosity into this shot and i am gonna do this by leaving behind our ring gentle hooked up and bringing in the Adaptalux Studio so that is generally the setup that i am gonna be getting my final images with at present I've acquired my ring down here on my slate and i'm going to exhibit you a bit of in regards to the composition of that in only a second I've bought my digital camera over right here on a tripod that is simply to preserve it stable but in addition so that i will go hands-free with the lighting and not ought to worry about what my shot is looking like before I you already know decide on up the digital camera and go looking by means of the viewfinder once more i will set it my are living view and spot from over right here precisely what my graphics are looking like as I make very first-class changes to our lights setup our lighting fixtures is over here on a mini tripod it as well now the expertise that this is gonna supply us is that we will get lights down around the facets to the entrance and across the back whereas anything like our room flash or a softbox is going to offer you definite, a lot of light it is gonna be particularly even light however it'll be from one path and it's no longer gonna be controllable to the style of extent that we're gonna want it to be so i'm going to begin developing some lights in right here and i will offer you a rapid walkthrough of exactly how this shot is being composed simply before we speak about settings i am just going to plug in a lighting arm just in an effort to see exactly what we now have obtained right here beneath the ambient mild of the room it's fairly an underexposed snapshot even with one lighting arm it's nonetheless going to be somewhat bit underexposed and that's seeing that we have now bought our aperture set to f-18 so that is it is particularly small aperture and that is so that we can get a particularly good depth of discipline throughout the entire size of the ring so we're gonna get all of these gems in focus in and then it is come is properly drop off particularly softly closer to the back of the ring and that's exactly what i am watching for we can get some quite satisfactory bokeh results on the bottom of the ring there by means of controlling our lights so let's have a appear at that i'm simply gonna plug in one other white lights arm here carry that round on this side over here now this lights is clearly relatively relatively harsh i am gonna pop a couple of diffusers on right here and then we will have a appear at what you might have got in order that has, sure, softened the light fairly a lot nevertheless it's honestly taking fairly various the light out of the shot as good the best way that i'm going to repair that's by using making use of one of the most elements of our new upgraded pot so this is a pod 2.Zero and we have installed what we call enhance mode with the aid of simply conserving the plus button on right here that you could put the lights into in to lift mode and it is gonna offer you a lot more brightness much more bang to your publication at the expense of some battery life now I've received my studio plugged in here in view that i'm using it in a studio atmosphere i don't need to fear concerning the battery a lot and i can simply keep it plugged into the wall a very long time which is really high-quality now watching at our two lights here you can find that we have got much more manipulate over the direction of our mild than you could possibly with anything like a softbox or or a hoop mild so comparing this photograph to 1 that we took previous you'll discover that there is without a doubt fairly a lot of change in it and all of that has come just from being equipped to diffuse and manipulate the path of our gentle now even as we have bought these diffusers on right here I just wanted to exhibit you sort of the difference between a colour filter and a diffuser in that the diffusers are obviously white and the color filters are coloured so having a pink color filter on there you'll be able to see has given it a quite satisfactory crimson hue that might now not be for everyone but if we swap these round hold this white light on the entrance after which pop either the pink on the aspect there you will find that offers a satisfactory little highlight throughout the facet of the ring or if we pop an orange on there that particularly enhances that gold ring really properly what I need to do although is really convey in some coloured light so utilizing an amber lights arm which i'm gonna plug in simply on the back right here i am gonna see what that appears like simply bringing it across the historical past of the shot open up the beam perspective there and then yeah you will see that the the heritage of the shot again right here has genuinely been illuminated Orange which is fairly terrific when you'll find that the ring continues to be rather properly lit with white light so still it is nonetheless consultant of what the ring looks like simply to take that one little step extra and see what a pink mild appears like from the other direction as good bring this pink lighting fixtures alarm simply in from this facet dispose of this little two hair this diffuser just a little bit bringing the grid from over here so what's that what that is done you'll find is add a tiny little little bit of a pink highlight down this side after which orange spotlight on the within of the Ring over here so that is I imply these lights are still pretty shiny so we have no longer balanced them they are not refined by any means however I in reality particularly like the seem of this photo now it is rather stylistic take on ring shot which will have to be extremely good for a wedding say with a color theme you could add it in blue or inexperienced lights as well just to add some exciting colors into what would otherwise be fairly a simple ring shot i'm simply relocating this around just to peer our composition can exchange utilising that slate and we are able to just deliver in out ring back into focus and take advantage of the intriguing fringe of that slate that simply appears a bit bit like a cliff side and there may be a number of intriguing little pieces of a texture round anything like this slate so well-nigh it is really intriguing to move exploring and that i rather like that drop off that now we have simply created there i'll just carry the ring again into center of attention and it is genuinely highlighting the purple in opposition to the background of the desk with yeah like a cliff fringe of of the slate dropping off there so I fairly rather like that image i'll start experimenting here possibly add a few exclusive colors and notice if i can get a few quite great pics of this ring I relatively loved ultra-modern shoot guys this this ring is interesting in itself however what I was more serious about was the interplay of the sunshine with the ring controlling those these reflections the highlights bokeh within the backgrounds the refractions throughout the gemstones all of that is certainly underneath your control with anything as bendy as our lighting fixtures palms and those color filters the coloured lights the diffuses millimeter through millimeter placement and that adjustment just gives you more and more options to be equipped to really you understand get tricky lights setups in just a few minutes of simply enjoying around and when you consider that of the character of the steady gentle it signifies that you will see precisely what changes you're making and how these changes are affecting your image that used to be fairly handy to you know go exploring inside your photo in a technique that probably you would not law or mostly or naturally get to do certainly if you are a marriage ceremony photographer on the grounds that a lot of the time it is let's get this completed as speedily as viable right so you're looking for common mild sources you are looking for pleasant surfaces but including a little bit bit additional light just possibly within the form of some colour that may particularly take it to that subsequent level so it's fairly exciting to mess around with things like this when we're talking about rings and jewelry anything that I didn't intend was once honestly exploring this this slate rather as so much as I did this little this little fossil in here was particularly fascinating specifically after we bought the ring down on top of it and the light shining across it it created some quite excellent textures and shadows in right here which can be relatively nice to discover as good so let us know what you consider - today's shoot down within the comments principally in case your photographer of jewellery if you're a wedding photographer and you are consistently getting those ring pictures let us know how you wish to get your lights if you are utilising artificial gentle to supplement you recognize normal light coming in from a window let us know if you are using the Adaptalux Studio to do some lights out within the subject or in the studio for capturing jewelry obviously tell us how you're developing your your lights and your diffusers as good at the same time you are down there within the comments make sure to provide us a like and hit the subscribe button if you wish to see some extra macro suggestions guidelines and tutorials for for all forms of exclusive subjects going into the longer term when you consider that you'll be making much more thanks again so those of you that got here to the images exhibit and stated stated hello to us i'll see you again there next 12 months however in the meantime i'll see you in the subsequent video thanks for gazing