360 Jewelry Photo Example: Silver Ring on Black

Using the LumiCube 360 Jewelry Photography Light Box with the black background and turntable platform, we were able to create the 360 jewelry photo example in ~6 minutes. We shot a total of 72 frames per 360 rotation (users can define number of frames up to over 10,000 if required) most of which was automated processes. Included Shutter Stream 360 Product Photography + Video Software controlled the capture, editing, processing and 360 jewelry view workflows. This software is designed to make the process simple and efficient and can be used by photographers of any skill level, from first timer to professional.

After placing the ring inside the Light Box, we centered it using the laser positioning system (included with the LumiCube 360). Our next step was to optimize lighting – this consisted of adjusting lighting intensity and color temperature. The lighting settings used were:

Back Lighting: Full Intensity
Top Left Lighting: ~15% Intensity
Top Right Lighting: ~15% Intensity
Cold Lighting: Off
Neutral Lighting: Off
Warm Lighting: On

We used an entry level Canon Mirrorless camera (~$450) with the  Canon 100mm Macro Lens (learn about why you should not shoot jewelry photos with a mobile phone. We set the camera back about 18″ from the subject as to achieve an acceptable depth of field. We could have also used the product photography focus stacking however that process is quite a bit more time consuming. After our light box and camera settings had been optimized, we semi-closed the front doors on the LumiCube 360 Light Box so the opening was about 3″ wide. 

The camera settings used in this 360 Jewelry Photo example were set as follows:
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: 11
White Balance: Auto
ISO: 100
Lens Focus Mode: AF (however overridden by the software to use a single, manually set focal point)

The 360 jewelry photo capture workflow was automated in a turn, stop, snap workflow via  Shutter Stream 360 + Video Software and took ~2 minutes and 30 seconds. During this process, the photos were instantly transferred into the software. After the capture sequence was completed, we entered into the editing area where we made a small adjustment to the image set (adjusted the black point to 2 in the levels tool to add contrast and increased sharpness to 2.4). These editing adjustments were applied to the entire 360 jewelry image set in a single click (the editing process took ~1 minute). The last step in the 360 Jewelry Photo workflow was to output the image set then compose into a web-ready 360 product view. Images were output at 1000 pixels wide and composed into a 360 view in HTML5 format.