Based on the responses from Alex’s last post about jewelry photo session I”ve decided to post images before and after post production and 100% crop to see amount of work. Some times I had to almost completely re-create a part of the item: it appears to be faster that to trying to restore lost finish and colors.
We made about 50 images for a talented jewelry designer Elizabeth Dupree Lynch for her Fine Jewelry collection. All jewelry was hand crafted by Italian jewelry master; therefore, retouching was not easy. It took us many hours (big thanks to my helper Anna Yenina:-) to do it.
All “before” objects showed as-is (Camera RAW default settings) photo without focus stacking applied. First image from a sequence is what you’ll see. Images ‘after” have a focus stacking applied.
I am going to do “focus staking in Photoshop cs5″ post next time, but for now you can check out this video how we do a focus stacking.
Some images may look overdone, (especially at 100% crop), but this is what we were able to do considering items’ condition (not new) and an extreme tight schedule for a post production.
Mouse Over to see Before and After
Diamond ring retouching.
Jewelry photography retouching
Jewelry photography post production.
Jewelry photography retouching, before and after.
This image was combined from two different shots in one.
Jewelry post production, before and after.
Jewelry retoucher Genia Larionova, Atlanta GA
Hope this post was interesting. See you next time:-)
Genia
Thank you for looking. Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome!
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please call me to discuss project. i have 200 plus rings that i need a retoucher for 917 620 6200
Thats great work!
i apologise for my bad english in the first.
@Tom, we had this discussion in a german blog before, it’s a big difference between an advertising photographer and an ebay photographer, you can’t do 100 high quality pictures a day, normally you do 4-8 pictures (without retouching) and work with large format cameras like sinar and digital bags with 40 MP.
your pictures quality is ok, but far away from professional advertising photography, throwing jewelry on a table and doing boring lighting is not advertising photography it’s more like ebay photography
Is it tutorial about jewelry retouching completed ?
Any idea when the tutorials will be put up? Still waiting for it!
Genia, This is a fantastic work. I would love to buy an e-videobook about jewelry retouching on Photoshop !
These are amazing, you really brought out the jewelries beauty.
Hi Genia,
thanks a lot for all this nice work and pictures!
Could you maybe explain how you reconstruct the gold/metal surface
so that it looks like new? Have you got a tuto or maybe a link to some,
it’s so amazing, I’d like to give it a try.
Cheers from France
Lô
Thank you, Lilian. My daughter’s name is Liliana:-)
There are many different techniques – filters (median, surface blur), brush painting, gradient, third party filters. We are writing the book about jewelry photography and retouching. Hope it will be ready in couple months.
Thank you Lo:-)
Love your photography, Nice Capture of these Rings above…
Really very helpful, please provide tutorial for jewelry retouching.
For some reason, the mouse-overs aren’t working for me, so i only see the “after” photos. But they’re still amazing.