So we had an assignment on Symbols. Symbols for love, envy and peace. We had to pick a final picture and blog about it, so here is me blogging about it...
Love, that is my final image. As soon as we got the assignment I had an idea of what I wanted to do. I am a die hard romantic and so I had fun with this symbol. To me, when I think of love, I think of romance and commitment. What better symbols to use than a rose and an engagement ring? An engagement ring that belonged to my great-grandmother (since I don't have one ;) ).
The biggest decision that I made in regards to this picture was the lighting. I had some really nice side sun lighting that was diffused by a curtain, so it gave me some really nice soft lighting. I shot in aperture priority because I really wanted to try and control my depth of field.
I didn't realize what a challenge it was going to be taking pictures of an engagement ring. The ring I picked had diamonds in it and I picked because I thought it was pretty and sparkly! It didn't occur to me that sparkle is really hard to capture and in most of my pictures it blurred the shape of the stones, even though there was no direct light on the ring itself and the ring had been sharp in my viewfinder. I found out I would've been better off with a simple gold band, but figured that one out too late. Oh well. It just occurred to me that I should've tried to backlight it. I think I'll try that this afternoon and see if it works.
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