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Shot for a Isley Jewelry store. Sapphire ring, hand crafted.
Shot for a Isley Jewelry store. Sapphire ring, hand crafted.
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scottwilson
March 09, 2015
The lens was the awesome 105 Sigma 2.8 macro and the lighting, funny enough, was a very cheap video light that I use on a lot of my product and food photography. Cost like 30 bucks on Amazon. Thanks for the kind words!
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Behind The Lens
Location
I took this at Isley Jewelry store in Whitefish, MT. This is a custom designed sapphire ring.Time
Mid afternoon.Lighting
As with many of my product and food photography I incorporated a nice little video light ($30 at Amazon). The advantage of this over flash is that I can see exactly how the light is falling on the object, and make small changes to the light that make a big difference to the final photo. This allowed me to place the light so it made the face of the gem shine in just the way I wanted to showcase the purity and beauty of the sapphire.Equipment
I used a Canon 5dMkIII, Sigma 105 Macro 2.8 Lens, a Monfrotto tripod and a LED small video light handheld.Inspiration
I was hired by 406 Woman Magazine to take these photos for ads for a jewelry store. They sold a lot of custom made jewelry and also designed artistic bowls, vases, etc... There theme was natural (rock, stone, sticks, etc...) so I incorporated one of their stone bowls here and positioned the ring on a decorative part of the bowl. The macro allowed me to catch a lot of detail and really highlight the craftsmanship in the ring.Editing
Very little. As with all jewelry photography I cleaned up the ring a little. I did small adjustments to color (to more match the true color of the ring, not to enhance it).In my camera bag
A lineup of Canon DSLRs, a Tamron 24-70 with image stab, 70-200 Canon 2.8 with image stab, monfrotto tripod/monopod etc..., 600 canon flash and a couple of small video lights.Feedback
Macro lens and tripod are a must. The video LED light is perfect for really fine tuning your lighting by eye. In this photo I stopped down the camera to 8.0 which kept more of the ring in focus (macro lenses have a tiny sliver of focus when opened wide, so stopping down is necessary to keep the important parts of the ring in focus). A side bonus to that is that the bokeh spots behind the lens have an octagonal rather than perfectly circular shape. Normally that's not optimal, but here it goes very well with the faceting in the gem on the ring.
