Reddit reviews Medium Low Profile Riser 3pcs Set in Clear Acrylic by Tripar

We had 165 guests, and probably bought about 60-70lbs of candy (most websites recommend you have 0.5 lbs /person).

We used CVS and Amazon for bulk sized bags of the typical stuff (5lb bags of kitkat/reeses, peanut M&Ms, Haribo gummy bears and gummy cola; 1lb bags of Dove chocolate) and various online vendors for non-traditional gummy/licorice, since I'm a candy-fiend who wanted brand name, extensive, yet slightly outside-the-norm variety. We used Sweet Factory and Economy Candy, since they had the most extensive collection but there's a ton of different online vendors out there, that are all similarly priced, such as Candy Warehouse and Oriental Trading (good if you want to shop by color, and don't care about brand) We thought about springing for personalized M&M's, but found them kinda pricy and not worth it--since we had so many other types of candy, I doubt anyone would have noticed. If we were JUST doing M&M's, we probably would have done it, though I remember the shipping time taking awhile (at least in late April, during the start of wedding season)

Our candy was out the entire time, and at the end, all the chocolate was gone, most of the gummies were gone, and the licorice was eaten the least. The most popular of the unique candies were Gummy ice creams. We had about 10 or 15lbs left over, which we ate for a few days, then gave the remainder away.

All our glass jars came from various thrift stores and Michael's, and were a range of sizes, heights, and shapes. We got the scoops, bags, and a few plastic risers from Amazon, some trays from Ikea for the scoops, and then gave everything to our coordinator to set up and lay out, and let them figure out what looked best. It was a HUGE HUGE hit,and one of my favorite things to plan.

I use a combination of these two:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CJ1B2EU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095MH2ZU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've got three sets of these.

I have Detolfs and I buy these for three-step risers.

Here is a photo.

I also have this set of 3 individual risers. It looks like they're slightly bigger than the ones you linked.

Here is a photo.

Hope this helps!

I'm actually trying to do some jewelry photography myself.

The first method I tried is shooting on glass with diffuser panels. Then underneath the glass, I had another diffuser panel with a bright continuous light right behind it. That made the background pure white. There were no shadows because it was on glass. And the reflection doesn't show up if the background is bright enough. Unfortunately, using this method, there were a ton of reflections that I couldn't really control.

So then I tried shooting inside a light box. I cut a hole the size of my lens in a piece of big white cardboard. So the only reflection what would show up is the lens, which is easy to spot remove in photoshop. Inside the lightbox, I have the piece of jewelry on a piece of acrylic. Something like this:

https://www.amazon.ca/Medium-Profile-Riser-Clear-Acrylic/dp/B0095MH2ZU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485548418&sr=8-1&keywords=clear+risers

To make the background pure white, I put a light underneath the lightbox (I put the lightbox on top of a cardboard box with a hole it in). Then I also put a light right against the back of the lightbox. So the bottom and the back of the lightbox are very bright and make the background pure white (or very close to it so that you can just fix the levels in photoshop).

Here are some test shots I did recently:
http://imgur.com/a/DS6SI

The last one was done without a lightbox. It makes the gem stones look much more dynamic, but the lightbox makes the whole thing look cleaner and without any bad reflections. I might try and do multiple exposures so that I can get the best of both worlds with dynamic stones and also a clean overall look.

The main issue I'm having with the rings is that the clients wants the gem at the top and the band at the bottom. I've just been flipping them vertically in photoshop which looks alright, but sometimes it looks a bit funny because it's like a mirror image of the piece of jewelry. I might end up having to use wax or a fishing wire to get the rings to stand up properly in the correct orientation.

If anyone has any advice or tips for me as well, let me know. I'm not charging much ($15 per piece), and there were 37 pieces of jewelry to photograph... so my method can't take very long for each piece of jewelry.

edit: shooting with a Canon T5i at f/11, iso 100. Using a Canon 60mm f/2.8 macro lens. I'm using focus stacking also.

Well to get stuff off the table take some small cardboard boxes and wrap them in pretty paper. Then you can set your stuff on them at different heights. It catches the eye more.

EDIT: I just randomly found these and thought they would be prefect for you.