Jewellery PhotoShoot

On Tuesday I have the studio booked from 1:15 - 4:30. I will be  using this time to take my jewellery advertisement photos with my model Holly. For this photo shoot I will use quite a basic studio lighting setup consisting of three soft boxes. Two at the back, one on each side and then also one at the front, as well as a beauty dish at the front, and also reflectors. For this photo shoot I am aiming to create a greyish coloured background for my images, I wanted to do this because the make up my model will be wearing, and the jewellery I'm going to be advertising is quite dark, therefore if I used a black backdrop it might look too dark, and if I had used a white one then it will be too light, so I've decided on grey as it is in the middle. 

Here are my contact sheets from the shoot… 

Overall looking trough my images I am really happy with how my jewellery photo-shoot turned out. I think that I experimented well with the use of quite a few different angles and lighting. I know that some of the images have come out slightly dark, but now seeing the black background I do think that it looks as good as the grey. Out of all the images I took these are my favourite... 

I will now have to decide on one of these images to be used as my final. 

I think that each of these images are really strong. The top right one has a nice natural pose, clearly showing off each element of jewellery, although this image does need slightly cropping so that you wouldn’t be able to see the top of her top. This would then make her appear topless like in the bottom image. I like my models pose in the top left picture, she has a really strong stance, and once again is clearly showing off the jewellery, I also like the lighting and shadows on this image, and the use of a slightly darker background. The bottom image is quite similar to the top right one, this picture is more posed, but also stronger as the model is making eye contact with the viewer. This image is also strong as my model is central to the image also clearly showing off all the jewellery. 

Although the image is landscape, making it a bit unusual to create a poster with I have decided to use the bottom picture as I think that this is the strongest image. 

Here are a few examples of other landscape Jewellery advertisments to give me ideas and insperation... 

Looking trough these images posters I've found that there isn't much writing involved on the poster; no prices or item names, it seems just to be the companies name and maybe the word jewellery. but these posters are more about the images and letting the viewer look at the jewellery themselves than really trying to sell a specific ring or necklace. 

By this time I had a few ideas running around in my head of what I could do for my jewellery poster. 

Heres what I did whilst editing... 

This made my model skin look a bit reddish. To me this doesn't look normal.

When I changed the selective colour in the reds, I came across accidentally making my models skin slightly gold tinted. I thought that this looked a bit unusual, but nice and that it could definitely be worked on. This was when I decided that I wanted my models skin to be gold to match the jewellery. I also decided to make her hair darker, to kind of match the black and gold jewellery theme. 

This is just experimentation of trying to get my model skin to a nice shade of gold.

And again,  still experimenting with the colour, and trying to make my models hait darker. 

Here I changed something that made my models highlighted areas of skin go from reflecting white, to a pinkish colour. I don't think that this looks nice on my image, as its unusual to look at and also the pink doesn't go with my idea of trying to make my models skin gold. 

I think that this pinky-red looks is a nice colour, although not necessarily for this picture. This colour doesn't suit my models skin tone, and just makes her blend in to the background a bit. It also doesn't show off the jewellery to its full capacity.  

I really like the skin tone that this colour has given to my model, although I dont like the background colour that has been made. I can help but think that it makes the image too green/yellow and also its a sickly coloured green, so not them most appealing colour to look at. 

I think that this corral pink background is a bit too much for this image. It makes it look more like a piece of pop art rather than a jewellery advertisement.  

I decided to take the image back to the sickly green colour, as I really like the gold skin look that it gives t my model. But I do not want to keep the green in the background, so I've decided that I'm going to import an image off the internet to use as my background. This could now be as creative as I like, but I'm thinking to keep it quite simple with an animal print, either tiger or leopard. I've decided to do this as I think that the colours of these prints will blend nicely with the gold skin tone, but still not distract you from the jewellery.  

I quite like this leopard print background, I like the colours in the picture, and also the textures, but this image doesn't quite cut it. I think that I woud be able to find a better background to use for this image than this one. 

Whilst editing this picture I did quite a lot of experimentation. When I started editing this picture and changing the colors I decided that I wanted my model skin tone to be gold. This would then be quite unusual and eye catching, and then she would also blend nicely with the jewelry. I made the dark colors darker, so then there would be a theme of black and gold to match the jewelry being advertised. I then also though that a textured leopard print background would match the colors, as well as the kind of tribal theme that was being portrayed. 

This is now my finished Jewellery advertising poster.