Here’s an excellent jewelry photography tip from Sue Winkel of Silver Spoon Studios:
You ran a great article on taking good jewelry photos using a Rubbermaid file box as your light box… I do this and it works great.
Here’s my tip for making this inexpensive photography method even better:
I use wallpaper borders to line the back and side walls of the Rubbermaid box for beautiful backgrounds!! It works great!
I get my borders at an outlet store so they cost pennies.
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What a great idea! I never would have thought of a Rubbermaid box. I use tissue paper over a cut-out cardboard box for my light box.
Thanks, Megan!
The Rubbermaid may work a bit better than the cardboard since it lets in light from all over.
Let me know how they compare, if you wind up trying it!
Rena
Juli said: I use the cardboard box for my lightbox. I place it in front of a window which gets full sun in the morning. Also, I am plannig to use wallpaper samples for backdrops from books given to me by sellers. All I did was to go to a wallpaper shop and asked if they had any out-of-date sample books. They were glad to give them to me. When I needed material to redecorate my home I brought my business right to them. Thanks for the discussion.
I tried both the Rubbermaid and the cardboad box with cutouts and I get better results with the cardboard box. I use wax paper in the cutouts
I’ve made a similiar light box before which helped in getting the most optimum size and shape. I photograph silver jewellery, and this is particularly difficult in that the reflected light either saturates the image or adjusting the camera to darken the image results in the silver not looking lustrious as it should. I’ve placed the jewellery in the light box on to brilliant white piece of photo print paper and used tissue over the camera flash to fine tune the light perfectly. I’ve even used tissue to absorb the reflected light around the piece of silver jewellery to adjust the sparkle exactly as I wanted.