 | erdos0 |
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:33:18 pm
The photos on the current version of the diamond site that I am working on are horrible. Many of them are blurry and none of them show any color. There is no rainbow of colors in the sparkle. It's just a bunch of overexposed white dots on a blurry grey gem. There are significant problems that make the photos look very amateurish, but they were taken by someone who is supposedly a professional photographer. The worst part is that the photographer is the wife of the owner of the company. This has caused his judgment to be distorted.
The project manager and I have been conspiring to get a better photographer. I had suggested someone I know who worked with me on a different site. This photographer has raised his rates since the last project and the manager doesn't want to pay that much. I could theoretically take the photos. The current photos are so bad that it's very easy to take better ones without any training, and I have prior experience with doing the photography for a different diamond site. However, I can't do the photography because the manager is fixated on the belief that only a professional photographer can do this.
Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:05:26 pm
re: comment#20
The fake glass look is from one of the photos that the owner's wife took.
yeah...
Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:46:58 pm
I know two professional photographers but they would both probably be way too expensive. I may also know a person willing to fake being a professional, but he would probably want too much money too.
Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:47:39 pm
I think the key with sparkling jewelery is to photograph them in natural light.
Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:47:25 pm
agrees with: comment#23
I think the key with sparkling jewelery is to photograph them in natural light.
Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:17:30 am
re: comment#9
There is a certain marking that is common on the faces of a section of my family, a triangle of moles on the cheek. Interestingly I have two cousins who are fraternal, not identical, twins, yet they have opposite handedness and said marking is also on opposite sides of their faces. The handedness and the marking aren't always correlated in the same manner.
Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:26:09 am
re: comment#18
This is the original look for the site that I proposed. Identifying information has been blurred.
Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:24:26 pm
re: comment#26
I see. Yeah, these photos lack “the wow factor,” such that while they represent the shapes of the stones well enough there is no sparkle or color to make them look like beautiful diamonds. It's a shame that you aren't being given a chance to show how much better they could be.
Those were actually the best photos I could find from them. There are much worse ones.