Rooftop Jewelry

You must have all heard of rooftop garden, rooftop restaurant and must be wondering what rooftop jewelry is. Its very simple – its jewelry that had to get to the rooftop, in order to get photographed, as I have lost the only source of natural light at my house for taking pictures.

You see I used to take all my jewelry pics on my dining table and sunlight from the adjacent window would light it adequately. But in the last few months, we are letting our neighbour’s neem tree grow over and cover the window in order to offer us some privacy from the apartment thats getting built next door. Yes we did get our privacy, but with the rainy season in full spell here, the tree has completely blocked out the window leaving me without a space to click pics and its been showing in all my pics they look grainy and really bad.

So fed up, I went up to the terrace last week and set up shop on the water tank staircase.

The texture on the stairs was great and I even used my handmade lightbox for darker jewelry pieces. For the first time in a couple of months, the pieces came out in their original colour, without me having colour correct any of them. Even the light colours came out good. I haven’t done much photoshop work on these pics apart from sizing them. for the picture of the ring I used a technique I found in Pearl’s blog – to use a piece of black paper on the side while shooting silver pieces on a white backgrounds. More photography tips can be found here.

It did come out well for a time, until the winds started blowing and my backgrounds and reflectors started flying away. It was hilarious, as I chased after jewelry covers along the length of the terrace. Finally my water bottle and some bricks came to my rescue.

But as fate would have it…it became cloudy, soon the blue tinge started reappearing in pics…and I decided to leave it for another day. Atleast it was good while it lasted!!