Photo Tips

You can achieve professional looking photos with very little investment other than a good digital camera. I used to use a Sony Mavica MVC-FD88, which stores the data on a floppy disk. The light box.. it was 12" wide x 7.5" high x 5" deep. It was just an old tupperware I had, and I used a regular desk lamp that swung over it. I straddled the beads between two pieces of Fimo clay on a mandrel. When I had a vertical bead, I stuck the mandrel vertically into the clay. To edit photos I used PhotoDeluxe because it was easy and had an "instant fix" button that corrected the color.
The setup as pictured above produced this photo:

                            

My current setup is a photo light box I got on eBay. My lights are halogens I got at the hardware store. My current camera is a Nikon D50 with a Nikkor 60mm Macro lens. I edit with Photoshop Elements 4.0.
Here is a photo taken with the Nikon and my current light set up in the light box:

Hope this helps.

mj