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Hi. I'm Michael Seto and in this clip we're going to talk a little bit about some of the
miscellaneous gear you need, other than your camera, lights, plexi-glass and so forth,
to accomplish some good jewelry photography. Jewelry photography is a lot about improvisation
and trouble shooting. So you need a lot of different things to help you trouble shoot
as you're shooting. Very important, mirrors. I get mirrors of all different sizes. This
helps you reflect light onto whatever you're shooting if there's a spot that doesn't have
as much light. Something like this, just a basic earring holder that you can get at any
jewelry shop, often helps you hold up the earrings for photography. As well, you can
get this little ring holder that often allows you to support the ring in a standing position
if you want to photograph it that way. If you don't use that, you can use this. This
is modeling clay. It's just a little bit putty that you can use to stick things together
and hold things together when you're shooting. Sometimes small flashlights help. This is
an LED flashlight to maybe bring out a little more sparkle or put some light where you don't
have it. Then every photographer is familiar with these. These are A-clamps, spring-loaded
clamps that can be pretty much for anything and we'll see a little more of that in some
of the later clips. Finally last but not least, this is a funny little thing, it's called
the third hand. Jewelers use this a lot. It just sits down on the table and you can clip
all sorts of things onto it to either block, reflect, or enhance the light or hold other
pieces of jewelry off camera. Thank you.