I make sterling silver jewelry (www.robmeixner.com). In order to maintain my website, I also need to be able to take pictures of my jewelry. Silver is a challenge because it is very reflective. I am able to take fairly good, in focus, pictures with my X10 using light colored backgrounds. I am now trying to use a very black background. The material is black felt typical of a lot of traditional jewelry displays. I t is very difficult to get my pieces in focus and almost impossible to get the exposure correct. Typically the final product is out of focus, washed out and not usable, especially after I crop the picture. I have no trouble taking portrait, landscape and even very macro pictures of colored objects (flowers, rocks, people, trees etc.), I just can't get good close up pictures of silver jewelry on a black background. Finally, there seems to be white dots in the pictures on black backgrounds that are nowhere in the picture. I went thru the white orb hassle and my camera was actually replaced. I am not a photographer, but it appears that I have to spend a lot of time becoming one if I want to solve this problem. Any suggestions are appreciated...Rob PS: My google pixel cellphone takes really excellent pictures of jewelry in all kinds of light with any color background.
