Working on my photos...

My light box set-up

I have changed my photo set-up several times during my years of selling goods online. Some have worked wonderfully and others... well... not so. In an effort to improve my pics a little bit and to align my shots with the ever increasing popularity of clean white backgrounds, I'm trying some new stuff.

Here's a necklace photographed on the hemp-covered display

 I just recently bought a new necklace display with a linen/hemp cloth surface and I thought I would like it but I don't all that much. When I went to the store yesterday to buy a white one, they didn't have any. I remembered seeing an online shop selling covers for necklace displays and checked those out but they were a little more than I really wanted to spend so... I made a quick dash to the fabric store and bought some white polar fleece. What I like about fleece fabric is that it diffuses light really well - you won't get any shiny spots and the texture of the fabric helps the light bounce around.

Here are some shots of making the cover for my necklace display - not really a "how-to" because I was improvising big-time and didn't take incredibly good pics but it seems to have worked OK and might be something you could try, too.

First, I cut a rough rounded square of fleece and stitched a running stitch around the edge...

I tightened the stitching to gather the fleece tightly around the form...

Here it is inside my light box. I think I need to change the small lamps out for some with "daylight" bulbs - the light coming from them now is too yellow so the color of the light inside the box isn't consistent - it's too cool in some spots and too warm in others...

Nonetheless, here is a shot of one of my "Way Out West" bead embroidery pendants...

Oh, well... still some work to do but getting closer!! :)