Three materials that pull the colour in three different directions — photographed so they belong to the same catalogue.
The fourth project for this brand; the images from the first three are still on their product pages.
What the brand needed
A set of engagement rings and diamond earrings for the product pages — pieces in yellow gold, white gold and mixed settings, photographed so they can sit next to each other in the same catalogue.
With fine jewellery the customer is buying something they cannot hold before it arrives. The image has to answer the questions they would ask in a shop: what colour is the metal really, how the stone catches light, how the setting is finished.
What made it difficult
Yellow and white gold in the same set. Balance the light for warm gold and the white gold turns grey; balance for white and the yellow goes orange. Each piece is lit and corrected so both read as the metal they are — and still belong to the same series.
Pavé stops being stones if the light is wrong. Dozens of small diamonds along a band each catch light on their own facets. Without separation they collapse into a grey line, and the detail the customer is paying for disappears.
Stud earrings have to match each other. A pair is two products in one frame. Any difference in angle or reflection between them reads as a manufacturing flaw rather than a photographic one.
At this magnification, dust is a feature. Fibres, fingerprints and micro-scratches invisible to the eye become obvious once a customer zooms into a product page.
How we shot it
Colour checked against the piece in hand, not against the screen alone — so the gold the customer receives is the gold they saw.
Separate lighting for the stones and for the metal. Pavé needs light that hits the facets; polished gold needs light that gives it volume without blowing out. They are not the same setup.
Retouching at high magnification — dust, fibres, fingerprints and micro-scratches removed without flattening the metal or killing the sparkle.
One visual standard across the set, so a customer scrolling the catalogue sees a collection, not eight separate shoots.
Drag the slider: straight out of camera / final image
The result
5 final images delivered in 10 working days, in high resolution and web-optimised versions, named by product reference and ready to upload.
This was the fourth project for the same brand — LaylaSofia.
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