If I get a chance to post some of the nice shots I will do that. Remember, these were taken some time ago and were mostly experiment and necessity at the time. Brenda, there is a chance the lower ruby/diamond shot was smudged in postwork, looks that way but I really don't recall. Still, when very diffused light is used, the metal surface almost takes on a satin or dull coated look, postwork or no. There is a very fine line between realistic reflection and that reflection masking metal color, for instance. The idea of managing reflections to be acceptable is a good one...the bg drape or the bg of black cylinders..etc. This is the sort of info I do not hear from jewelry sites when photo is discussed. It is refreshing to hear ideas from folks who do photography of all sorts. Generally, if a pro studio(read portrait) photographer is asked to shoot jewelry images, the result is frustration for the photographer and poor results.