Occasionally I'll feature "before and after" photos from one of my Small Object Photography class participants and blog readers.
If you have some great before and after shots you'd like to share, feel free to email me your photos using this link: for a chance to be featured! (Maximum 4 photos per submission, please. Feel free to include information about your online shop and your before and after story as well!)
My own Before and After story:
When I wanted to apply for high-end wholesale trade shows with my jewelry line, Marlo M. Jewelry Design (est. 1993) I quickly realized that I needed to learn how to take my own photos of my work. So, I took an entire year to learn how to take photos of my jewelry using a Nikon 35mm SLR (yes, the kind that uses actual *film*!).
In that year, I took classes and workshops, learned how to work with lighting, rented professional equipment and learned quite a bit about taking great photos with 35mm film by shooting many, many rolls of film! Here's one of the results of that effort:
Tell us: When did you realize that taking better photos was going to be important for your online shop?
3 Response to "Before and After - Marlo M. Jewelry Design"
I realized my photography was finally improving when friends kept asking me if my husband (who does a lot of photography) does my photography. Scoff...NOPE, it's all my blood, sweat and tears!! :)
I realized that the better photos were essential when I opened my second shop. The product for this shop was better and more concise than my first attempt had been. I looked back and wondered why sales had been so poor my first time around, and realized my photos were so bad that I was probably a candidate for a Regretsy.com post!
I just recently started to really put effort into my photography for my Etsy shop. I made a light box, figured out every little setting on my camera and found better backgrounds to take pictures on. The results are really great!
here's an example of my earlier "photography":
http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.164830857.jpg
and what I'm doing now:
http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_570xN.252659699.jpg
lighting can make all the difference!! :)
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