My first post ...

You know the drill, you've finished your piece, you're so happy with the results and you can't wait to post it on etsy. You then take some pictures of your piece with your homemade light box and your not-very-fancy camera. Somehow, the photographs don't seem quite right. But you post them anyway because you are dying to share with the world your masterpiece. Ok, a masterpiece in my own mind and to the world a cute necklace. So you post your pictures and look at the Etsy thumb-nail version and it's really apparent that the photos are not so great. Alas there isn't enough sunlight today to retake the pictures.

A picture from the first take:

This piece was finished yesterday (Floating Silver Hearts Necklace) and the lighting doesn't quite seem right. It's blue, no? I love how the necklace looks, but the background has a slight violet tint, which is kind of pretty, but I also see all those foodblog pictures that are just so perfect, and I'm thinking "arrgh".

So you wait till the next day and out of desperation, you actually learn to adjust white balance on your camera (still not sure what that means, but seems to have improved the pics a bit) and take a new batch.

Here is a picture from the next day:

The background looks slightly better, but the pendant now has some pink tinge and the hearts don't pop like the previous pic. And this is after the resizing, cropping, and adjusting the brightness/contrast. Sigh. And of course, all the other pictures in the batch have the same issue. But as the famous southern belle vowed "Tomorrow is another day...."