{"id":791,"date":"2022-05-09T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2022-05-09T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T02:39:15","slug":"gemstone-photography-and-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/gemstone-photography-and-composite\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemstone Photography and Composite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/composite-photo-editing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-792 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/composite-photo-editing.jpg\" alt=\"Gemstone Composite Photography\" width=\"936\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/composite-photo-editing.jpg 936w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/composite-photo-editing-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/composite-photo-editing-768x547.jpg 768w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/composite-photo-editing-421x300.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual Gemstone Show was back with its regular month schedule for February 2022!<\/p>\n<p>Our client wanted a layout with raw turquoise stones, the caliper and a polished stone, but with some sort of staging. We suggested using a stock background as a great affordable choice to create a wow factor for <a href=\"https:\/\/douglassimon.com\/website-photography.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website photography<\/a>.\u00a0 The original stock image provided the texture and grit; and <a href=\"https:\/\/douglassimon.com\/photo-editing-layouts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo editing<\/a> layered on eye catching dimension.\u00a0 We shot a catalog of turquoise gemstones, but the lighting for the unprocessed turquoise and caliper required lighting adjustment and filtering.<\/p>\n<p>Equipment Used:<br \/>\nCanon 5d Mark III<br \/>\nCanon Macro Lens EF100mm f\/2.8<br \/>\nMultiple Softboxes<br \/>\nMultiple Gradients<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gemstone-photography-tucson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-795 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gemstone-photography-tucson.jpg\" alt=\"Tucson Gemstone Photography\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gemstone-photography-tucson.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gemstone-photography-tucson-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gemstone-photography-tucson-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gemstone-photography-tucson-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-796 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography.jpg\" alt=\"Turquoise Gemstone Photography\" width=\"1000\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-300x88.jpg 300w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-768x226.jpg 768w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-500x147.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-tucson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-797 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-tucson.jpg\" alt=\"Gemstone Photography Tucson\" width=\"800\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-tucson.jpg 800w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-tucson-300x292.jpg 300w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-tucson-768x748.jpg 768w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/turquoise-gemstone-photography-tucson-308x300.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Gemstone Show was back with its regular month schedule for February 2022! Our client wanted a layout with raw turquoise stones, the caliper and a polished stone, but with some sort of staging. We suggested using a stock &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/gemstone-photography-and-composite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,48,47,76,302,109,77,1,128,46,58,272],"tags":[50,118,299,304,306,51,305],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad-layouts","category-business-photography","category-catalog-photography","category-composite-photography","category-jewelry-photography","category-light-modifiers","category-photo-editing","category-photography","category-product-on-white-photography","category-product-photography","category-product-staging-photography","category-product-styling","tag-catalog-photography-2","tag-composite-photography","tag-gemstone-jewelry-photographer","tag-gemstone-photography","tag-hero-shots","tag-online-catalog","tag-tucson-gemstone-photographer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cxVk-cL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}