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Hi. I'm Michael Seto. I'm a New York based professional photographer and today we're
going to talk about the different kinds of lighting that you might use for shooting jewelry.
Down here on the table, we've got a number of different lighting options. It all really
depends on what your budget is. A lot of this you can just get at Home Depot or around the
house, some household lamps. You can be very flexible. Lighting for jewelry can be very
simple. Window lighting, a couple of lamps from the house, or it can be very complicated.
You can rent some beautiful strobes and other specialized lighting from a photographic store.
Let's just talk about a couple of things real briefly. What we've got here is just a florescent
lamp, you can also put a incandescent bulb in there, it's very basic. Florescent is good
because the lighting is a little cooler. So you're not sweating and just doesn't generate
a lot of heat and you can leave it on for long periods of time. The other one I've got
here, I've got a small LED bulb inside here. It's got multiple LED's. That's often good
to bring out sparkles in faceted gems like diamonds and that sort of thing. These are
both continuous light sources so the light is always on. The other light source I want
to talk about is flash. That's these here. You can use your regular on camera flash to
light up the jewelry as well as some studio lighting. This gets plugged in and on a light
stand and those deliver a one flash of light onto the jewelry. So those are some of the
basic pieces of jewelry lighting you can do. Ranged from simple to complicated, economical
to expensive.