by Tara Maginnis, Ph.D.
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Lorraine Pettit - Jewelry Designs and Fabrication

Photography

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Jewelry Concepts & Technology
Art Nouveau Jewelry
: How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts
Fashion Shots (Pro-Lighting Series)
Lighting Techniques for Fashion and Glamour Photography
   The simple setup for photographing the above sets of jewelry, based on advice from this site Society of American Silversmiths: Photo Tips for Metalsmiths:

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  005.jpg (234027 bytes) Cut down torso form covered in blue-gray knit.

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Jewels of Lalique

Practical Casting (Jewelry Crafts)
The Encyclopedia of Jewelry-Making Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques

Modeling in Wax for Jewelry and Sculpture (Jewelry Crafts)

Jewelry: Fundamentals of Metalsmithing (Jewelry Crafts)
Working with Precious Metal Clay

The Necklace : From Antiquity to the Present

 

 

 

 

Photos taken with a Minolta Dimage X 2MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom on a tripod. Color corrections and cropping done in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 

Setup box built by Lorraine Pettit, photos by Tara Maginnis.

See also Photographing Costumes for your Portfolio, both Onstage and in the Studio

  

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