[AVTrout]

Hey thanks for the advice everyone! I took it some of it and my photos have DRASTICALLY improved. One thing that really helped was pushing everything almost together so that I could just slide my camera lens in and take a pic. It really cut down on the light glare on the beads. Oh..... and I bought a rock tumbler, so now many of my beads are matte finished, but you can see in the ones below that are shiny how well the "pushing together" of lights and backdrop worked.