Fishing for TreasureAdventures in Junk

I was want­ing to pho­to­graph some vin­tage ear­rings for sale. Jew­elry is a real chal­lenge for the ama­teur prod­uct pho­tog­ra­pher because it’s small, it’s shiny, and you want the pic­tures to be very focused and detailed. And beyond that, you want them to be gor­geous, and three-​​dimensional, and to look so real that the viewer will fall in love with the ear­rings at once and cash in her kids’ col­lege funds to pos­sess them.

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