Robert K. Liu has published widely on diverse and comprehensive topics from ethnographic and contemporary beads, to aspects of jewelry design, manufacture and photographic processes. Over four decades, he has studied science, small object photography, and jewelry and model making. He has also extensively observed and photographed small animals. He draws on this extensive background to provide technical and pragmatic methodological frameworks for professionals in curatorial sectors, science, arts and crafts, as well as higher education. An editor, writer, and photographer for Ornament Magazine, he is the ideal person to publish this book, a guide to photographing jewelry and related craft components that spans sixteen concise chapters.
Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of the ever-changing technological innovations in the use of digital cameras, lenses, the life-span of recorded images, digital processing, and storage options. Given the lack of exclusionary and specialist expertise in product photography, the author has...