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Bored of the Rings?
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Sigh....contrived, overdone, sentimentalised...but that's enough about me....Wink

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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#2

They are lovely. It looks like an ad in Bride Magazine.

Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens. http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/
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#3

...and your signature rocks...
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#4

Hi Zig,

Not sure if you want CC on this as it is in the showcase section. They look beautiful.

Canon stuff.
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#5

This is beautiful Zig. Very delicate and lovely colors... Smile

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
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