These are the first shots of the jewellery, with natural lighting instead of studio lighting. I positioned the pieces to the left of a large window on a sunny day, so they were all lit quite brightly. I mainly used an 18-55mm f5.6 lens, to allow me to work around the jewellery more, using +10 filters in some of the shots to get even closer in, filling the frame more. Using the cupcake mat to put the subjects on makes some of the shots seem a bit too 'busy', which puts me off, but it seemed more appropriate than anything I had available at the time.
For a lot of the shots, I worked in a similar way to the studio work (these were shot first), using shallow depth of fields and focusing on subjects slightly off centre. Shooting less formally seemed more appropriate because they're quite bold and exciting, rather than jewellery like gold and silver which is a bit higher class.
The photographs I shot in more of a formal way didn't turn out as well in my opinion, they seemed quite boring. This put me off shooting in this way when I did the lot in the studio, and drew me towards shooting shallow depths of field.
I massively prefer the work like this, which is less formal, focussing on small areas to grab the attention of the viewers.
This photograph looks really odd, because I shout it with the cupcake part the wrong way round, and had to rotate the photograph to correct it.
These were my favourite to photograph, because they caught light really well which highlighted the detail in them. They also looked quite bright and bold in both lighting, so I'd definitely like to photograph something like this again.
The close up shots like this aren't as good as the others in my opinion, too much detail is captured in the frame, which highlights dirt and dust on the top of the cake. Viewing the photographs on such a small screen, I didn't notice whilst shooting, but when blown up, the imperfections are really obvious.
The coloured pieces are really bold in the natural light, so I photographed a lot of them, but it was quite hard to work with such small subjects without a macro lens, focusing close up was difficult.
Because the cupcake mat was a metal baking tin lid, if got a lot of ambient reflection from the window, which was hard to avoid in some cases like below. It doesn't look particularly bad, it just looks odd, because it's so much brighter than the subjects.
Shooting really close up was more difficult, because it's a lot harder to focus. As well as that, my reflection can be seen in the beads, which is why shooting from further away worked better.
The jelly babies photographed really well, because the lighting made them look a lot bolder and brighter, but they loose detail in the lighter ones, which can be seen in the yellow.
The iced gems looked a lot better because they were so detailed, so more shadows were created, making them look more defined. This is the same for all of the more detailed pieces, like the rest of the chain and the cakes.
I think these photographs fit in to my appearance theme, because it's all about perspective. The pieces could easily be mistaken for full sized objects, because of the way they've been taken, they've almost been manipulated to look different to what they really are.
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