My business partner David invented this lens because as a nature photographer David was unable to take incredible close-up photographs of insects with a camera that he can stick in his shirt pocket while hiking through the woods.

The macro lens is called Little Big Shot™.  It can easily be attached and detached to most compact/point and shoot digital camera’s.   When you are not using the lens to photograph jewelry or other arts and crafts products simply detach it from your compact camera.

You are probably going to be surprised when I tell you that the Little Big Shot™ macro lens sells for $19.99, which includes shipping.

If you are not an artisan you can use this detachable macro lens to photograph  butterflies, watch parts, coins, parts of flowers, small insects, snowflakes and other minuscule objects without having to own an expensive digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera and a macro lens.

Using the Little Big Shot™ compact camera attachable macro lens will give you:

• better focus
• finer details
• higher magnification

Little Big Shot™ works with all camera makes and nearly all models: Canon Powershot, Sony Cybershot, Kodak Easyshare, Nikon Coolpix, Panasonic Lumix, Fujifilm Finepix, Olympus Stylus, Casio Exilim, and all others.

To learn more about the Little Big Shot™ attachable/detachable macro lens for compact camera’s and to view some photographs taken with this macro lens please visit:  http://www.inexpensivejewelryphotography.com/Macro_Lens_For_Compacts.html

Jim Juris

If you are not using Facebook to create a Facebook Fan page, and other social media sites to market your jewelry and craft products you are missing out.  Facebook has 700 million members that you can use to generate new business.  If you don’t use Facebook to market your jewelry business your competitors will.

Google+ and Twitter are two other social media sites that you should also be using to market your jewelry or craft business.

His newsletter is typically 15 to 18 pages long.  The cost is US $36.00 per year, which is only US $3.00 per month.  Plus, you will receive 6 back issues and you have the ability to cancel at any time if you are not satisfied and get your money back on the un-served issues.

In the January 2011 issue of Jewelry Selling Insights, Dr. Weiman provides 5 quick tips for selling jewelry at home parties.  Also in the January 2011 issue of his newsletter is a terrific article on the Do’s and Don’ts For Selling To Galleries, Boutiques and Stores.

The January 2011 issue of this newsletter has the first of three parts on the Do’s and Don’ts For Selling To Galleries, Boutiques and Stores.  It was written by Margaret LeFevre who is an associate editor for this newsletter.

48 gallery owners from across the nation where interviewed by Dr. Weiman and his staff to find out what gallery owners like and don’t like when jewelry artists come calling in regards to selling their jewelry in their gallery.

To subscribe to this newsletter simply click on the link below.  You will be taken to a new page with more information about the Jewelry Selling Insights newsletter.

I you are an artisan and you are looking for a place to sell your handmade craft products I highly recommend that you consider selling them on Artfire.   If you would like to sell your arts and crafts products on Artfire as a Pro member you can receive your third month of Artfire Pro membership for free by using this link-  third month of Pro membership Free

You will find many reasons to sell your handmade arts and crafts products on Artfire by going to my Artfire blog.  You also find the link for the third month of a Artfire Pro membership on my Artfire blog.

While you are at my Artfire blog, check out my new GIMP photo editing ebook.  This ebook will teach you how to edit your digital photographs using free software from GIMP.

Jim Juris

The photographs that I am using for my photo note cards where all taken in and around Colorado.  I have a old steam engine train, a metal sculpture of a bicycle rider, a frog fishing, a leaning towering mast, and a Thanksgiving Holiday photo note card (shown in the photograph below) and several other photo note cards that I  sell for $3 to $4 plus shipping.  All of my photo note cards come with white envelopes.

The inside of these photo note cards are blank.

Here is the link to my Artfire studio–  http://www.artfire.com/users/JimJuris

In addition to my photo note cards I also have some matted photograph prints for sale.  These prints where also taken in Colorado.  Please stop by my Artfire studio and have a look around.

Thank you,

Jim Juris

Happy Thanksgiving

I will be recommending cameras and camera related products that I would buy if I was in the market for a new camera or a camera related item.

Here is my first digital camera recommendation.  I think that this is a great camera.

http://www.inexpensivejewelryphotography.com/Buying_A_Camera.html

You will find the digital camera that I am recommending in the light gray color column on the right hand side of the page.

I am an affiliate for this product and I will receive a commission if you buy this camera through my link.

Jim Juris

It was about 9:30 p.m. when I went outside to take some photographs of the homes that are decorated with Christmas Lights.

I was a little bit disapointed when I saw that the lights on a tree where turned off for the night.  I was able to take some very nich photographs of other homes with Christmas light decorations.

Here are 3 of my photos.

Please feel free to comment on my photographs.  Both good and bad comments are welcome.

Happy Holidays.

Jim Juris

Here is the URL for the bird website;  http://www.thebirdersreport.com/

Be advised that if you are on dial-up connection like I am,  due to all of the images on the websites home page, the images will take some time to load.  I love birds so I feel that this website is well worth waiting for the home page to load.

Follow me on twitter;  http://twitter.com/jim_juris

Enjoy,

Jim Juris

I am Happy to recommend products specifically for selling handcrafted jewelry written by Dr. David Weiman.  Dr. Weiman and I have known each other for about 4 years.   The two of us met on a jewelry forum that we use to participate on.

Dr. Weiman is an expert in marketing handmade jewelry products.   I have placed a link in my blogroll that will take you to a website where you can learn more about the products offered by Dr. Weiman.  Click on the link in my blogroll that says Selling Handmade Jewelry.

Jim Juris

http://www.inexpensivejewelryphotography.com

orange and yellow slinky

Here is a photograph of a orange and yellow slinky.  Nothing unique or fancy, just your typical slinky image.

I don’t want typical images, I want unique images.  So I figured out how to make my slinky image look unique and that is what you see in my second image of the slinky.

I felt that the best way for me to make a unique photograph of this slinky was to only use a small portion of the original image. 

I cropped a small area of my original slinky image and I came up with the image that you see below.

 I also  adjusted the contrast and darkened the image somewhat to give my photograph eye appeal.

Now my slinky image looks unique.

orange and yellow slinky after cropping and enhancing

Feel free to leave me your comments, both good and bad, about my slinky images.

Jim Juris