Sep 11, 2007, 10:32
Sigh....contrived, overdone, sentimentalised...but that's enough about me....
Our wedding rings arrived from Australia the other day. I'm not patient with macros; as you know, I use my Tamron 90mm macro as a landscape lens generally.
Here I popped the rings on the little bow that wrapped the box and just had a sheet of white paper underneath.
I shot in natural light with a table lamp illuminating from the top.
Shooting in raw, I let it underexpose(given the huge amount of white), also allowing the yellow cast from the lamp, knowing that I'd adjust both later.
Using Canon's Zoom Browser(which does a creditable job, I reckon) I took my "white point" as a bit of paper, overexposed about a stop and a half, saving as a low-contrast, low-saturation jpeg: I knew I'd be dodging in highlights for a high-key feel, so didn't want the colour doing too strange things.
Dodging away, I also used the blur tool and the diffusion effect(makes such an unmessy change from selectively smearing Vaseline on lenses like the old days, I think!)
Though I personally mistrust my photographing of anything smaller than 3 or 4 fields in length, I thought I'd let you see the results and method anyway. I stayed far enough away from the subject so as to be comfortable with f.11....I don't like small apertures on "digital" lenses.
Our wedding rings arrived from Australia the other day. I'm not patient with macros; as you know, I use my Tamron 90mm macro as a landscape lens generally.
Here I popped the rings on the little bow that wrapped the box and just had a sheet of white paper underneath.
I shot in natural light with a table lamp illuminating from the top.
Shooting in raw, I let it underexpose(given the huge amount of white), also allowing the yellow cast from the lamp, knowing that I'd adjust both later.
Using Canon's Zoom Browser(which does a creditable job, I reckon) I took my "white point" as a bit of paper, overexposed about a stop and a half, saving as a low-contrast, low-saturation jpeg: I knew I'd be dodging in highlights for a high-key feel, so didn't want the colour doing too strange things.
Dodging away, I also used the blur tool and the diffusion effect(makes such an unmessy change from selectively smearing Vaseline on lenses like the old days, I think!)
Though I personally mistrust my photographing of anything smaller than 3 or 4 fields in length, I thought I'd let you see the results and method anyway. I stayed far enough away from the subject so as to be comfortable with f.11....I don't like small apertures on "digital" lenses.
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