[Laura DBL]

I need some help with photos - I've been struggling with getting good quality pictures for a long, long time now, and this is the closest I've come, but I still think something in the lighting is "off". Can anyone tell what it might be, by looking at the pictures? I am using an EZ Cube with a lights on stands, one on each side, I've set the White Balance on my camera (Nikon Coolpix 4500) to Incandescent, and pulled the image into Adobe Photoshop, where I changed the level of the background (just hit Control L, then the far left "dropper").

I would appreciate any suggestions! (Besides maybe taking the beads off of the mandrels before taking photos!!)