Photo-drama

Now, I never claimed to be a photographer, and to be completely honest I have never even taken a “good” picture.  This is proving to be a challenge for me.  I need to be able to take good pics of my jewelry in order to sell it online.  So, I have been playing around with some suggestions that I read on about.com.  One was to use a scanner….that didn’t work out so well.  Look at these….

Not so hot, huh?  By the way, I hate that second bracelet, with the flower, too.  So, you won’t hurt my feelings to say that it ain’t so great. :)  So, then I read that I should take pictures of the jewelry on myself or a model.  Since I have no model present at this time.  Here are the pictures of the bracelet on my wrist.

I am still not happy with that.  See, I have a size 8 wrist and this is a 7 inch stretch bracelet.  So, it’s not exactly showing to the best of its potential.  And, now, I am getting frustrated that it looks a different color in each pic.  It really is a pretty spring green.   So here is the last one that I took.  I snapped it outside, at about 11 am on this beautiful spring day.

So, I like this one the best.  It’s very true to the color and nothing else in the photo is distracting.  But, you see my struggle that I put myself through for each and every item that I want to list for sale! 

   Now, just for fun, here are a few more shots I took while I was outside today.

Here is my new raised garden bed that we put in last weekend.  See my little lettuce babies, just popping their heads out??

Here is a close up of the little lettuces!

And, here’s a little bee in the azaleas.  Can you find him???  

My conclusion on the photos?  I need to build a light box and get a better camera.  Anyone want to donate a good manual focus camera???  ‘Cause I don’t have a few hundred lying around here, waiting to be spent on a new digital camera.  Anyway….Have a happy weekend!