Professional Jewelry & Small Product Light Tent Photography

Here is an in-depth look at setting up and using the light tent along with lighting techniques and backgrounds.

Getting the most from your light tent & lighting set up as we look at different images.

Here are the simple steps you can do to obtain a clean white background when photographing your small products, regardless of whether you use a tablet, your phone, or a DSLR.

Take your background adjustment & enhancement up a notch with simple techniques you can use in image editor software such as Adobe Photoshop.

For those who want to learn a few more advanced techniques in background control such as adding a shadow and changing your background color.

Sometimes it may be an advantage to add an image to one of your product photos. Here's the technique I use to do that.

Please note: Some of these techniques require a certain level of skill in using an image editing software program like Adobe Photoshop.

To my serious students: I highly recommend taking the time to learn such techniques. Yes, it's important to get the best possible image straight out of the camera, but, many of our world's famous great photographers used post processing techniques to help create their finished masterpieces.

Don't limit yourself. You may want to consider expanding your photographic knowledge and skill level.

A Look at the results when using a set of LED lights without the Light Tent.

A look at defocus backgrounds and using selective focus to blur your background even more. Also, comparing background focus of a small sensor camera like an iPod touch or smartphone to a larger sensor camera.

Here's an amazing photo effects editing program that offers thousands of effects and enhancements to your photos.

This section starts with a brief discussion about how you can use depth-of-field to your advantage.

Here we continue with aperture control by looking at images taken with different settings to show how you can use this as an advantage and what a big difference aperture has on your images.

Here two Fluorescent Bulbs are placed in a Light Clamp Reflector. The reflectors are placed on a light

stand with one on each side of the tent.

This clip shows a zoomable tactical flash light used as the light source.

A simple one light source such as the LED Hanging Magnetic Work Light can also be used to light your photo tent.

In this final clip on alternative lighting techniques, we take a look at this powerful LED Video light and it's soft light qualities.

See what makes this type of set up so great for small product photography.

Here we look at what's included in this light box kit and we also look at different ways you can use the light box along with photos taken with it.

A demonstration of my favorite light box to date