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Create bold beauty and jewellery editorials using continuous lighting

About the event

Beauty in Focus:
Editorial Jewellery Photography with Vienna Marie


Editorial Jewellery Photography Examples by Vienna Marie


Join Sony Digital Imaging Advocate Vienna Marie for an inspiring hands-on workshop focused on capturing striking beauty and editorial images that highlight jewellery in its finest light.

In this session, you’ll learn how to craft polished, high-impact visuals using continuous lighting—perfect for fashion campaigns, beauty editorials, or brand shoots. Vienna will guide you through lighting techniques, model direction, lens choices, and styling to elevate your storytelling and attention to detail in close-up portraiture.

 

Perfect for photographers looking to refine their studio skills or build a beauty and jewellery portfolio.

Techniques covered

  • Precision Focus for Jewellery: Nailing sharp focus on small, reflective elements. 
  • Using Continuous Lighting: Understanding intensity, distance, and direction for soft, consistent light.
  • Clamshell Lighting Technique: Creating flattering, even light for beauty portraits using reflectors and key light. 
  • White Balance Mastery: Ensuring accurate skin tones and product color with manual white balance settings. 
  • Lens Selection for Detail: Choosing the right focal lengths for clean close-ups and beauty framing.
  • Exposure Control: Balancing highlights and shadows when shooting with metallic or gemstone elements.
  • Directing for Elegance: Posing techniques for hands, face, and body to enhance jewellery features.
  • Manual Settings Confidence: Full control of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO for editorial consistency.  

What to bring

  • Cameras
  • SD Cards
  • Camera Batteries 

Event FAQs (For general FAQs, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page)

Street parking available around the area
Yes, through Sony Scene via the name Vienna Marie, or on Instagram @vnrxo

Advocate

Vienna Marie

Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Vienna Marie is a bubbly, passionate, and ambitious creative powerhouse with a decade of experience in photography, video, graph...

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Vienna is bubbly, enthusiastic, passionate, genuine, a natural born teacher, and such a great cheerleader for the models! One of the best in Sydney!”

Wayne Mcanalley, PIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION (Portrait + Fashion Workshop)

Vienna is an amazing bubbly host and mentor with a wealth of knowledge. She engages with everyone and gives fantastic feedback. 1000/10!”

Nicholas Phantomhive, PIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION (Portrait + Fashion Workshop)
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