Meet Catherine Keeney, a super artistic jewelry designer. A few weeks ago, I had the chance to photograph her work for a Lookbook that she is using to promote her jewelry to fine fashion entities across the nation. As you can see, she has a unique vision with her jewelry, and the Gallo-Roman inspired designs meet up nicely with modern styling. Visit her Web site here.

The idea was to go for a very clean look, really emphasizing the offerings of the jewelry, such as the black diamonds, brushed white gold, sapphires, etc…

For you photogs out there wondering about shooting, all jewelry shots were made under a shoot-tent, a large box made of diffuse material similar to what a shoot-thru umbrella is made of. There were three strobes placed at 90 degrees to each other surrounding the tent, and the power was kept relatively low for depth of field purposes. Extension tubes, those that I used to make the Texas Tech Alumni ring shots I mentioned in an earlier post, were utilized once more.

All images made with a Canon 5D Mk II and 24-105mm f/4 L and 70-200mm f/2.8 L.

This is a quick post, but definitely check out Catherine’s work. She is super talented, and so is her husband, Stayton Bonner. We have worked together on a couple projects, and I’ll have more on that later!