Product render of jewelry set-up?

[Kinetic99]

Hello and thanks for your time,

I was hoping to get any tips, advice or tutorials from anyone out there that does product rendering for pretty shiny things.
Basically I want to set-up my master scene with a base plane, HDRI map for lighting and reflections, GI and do a series of rendered still and animations on different pieces of jewelry form rings to necklaces.
I was planning to set my scene up to accurate measurements (in cm or mm). This helps when constructing the objects and elements in the product.

Any thoughts, pitfalls?

K

[joconnell]

Yeah you could do a search for "light tent" which most people use to shoot this stuff with some tiny pen lights for individual reflection pings. The place highlight tool in max is your best friend.