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(7 votes) 4:37 pm
September 4, 2009
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The next assignment (deadline 8/22/2012):
A ring shot. Lets practice in jewelry photography: it can be with or without gemstone, classic or creative (creative is better:-) shot of the ring. There are tons of free tutorials for jewelry photographers we have here on photigy (check out our “Jewelry” tutorials) as well as comprehensive e-book, called “DIY Solutions for jewelry photographer“.
The winner(s) will receive $150 worth of goods from BHphotogtraphy.com, and may be more: we constantly working on finding more sponsors of the show, meaning sooner or later we’ll have even more prizes.
Please submit your work here by replying to this topic
All the best to everyone!
11:15 am
March 30, 2012
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No creativity here, but when I shot this ring a year ago it was the first time I used a focus stack.
If anyone wants to know that is a ring made out of an Australian Florin coin during WWII.
J
11:35 am
September 4, 2009
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The issue with "Add Reply" button was not working has been fixed. Please upload your submissions!
9:30 pm
August 7, 2012
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This is the only ring I have. It was my great-grandfathers ring and I wear it every day. 
EDIT: For some reason the file I uploaded looks horrible. I think the upload system is crunching the images or something. Anyway, here's the image I have on Flickr…
2:28 pm
April 13, 2012
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Hello!
This photo is combination of two frames processed in Photoshop. One frame for background(sand) and other for ring.
Gennady Kravetsky
4:40 pm
August 4, 2012
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Hello,
A treasure island imagined what I would like to introduce you to form images.
Claudia.
3:35 am
July 24, 2012
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Nothing special here, just folowed your tutorial 
4:44 am
August 6, 2012
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Hello,
my submision is – it also has a soul… Hope You will enjoy it 
10:20 am
March 4, 2012
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Jerry Nielsen – ring.
Here is a shot of one of my mothers old rings, certainly well worn! It has around 30 little diamonds inlay-ed and a large lapis stone.
Basically shot the ring in a black box with a softbox coming from above and to the front, with small silver reflectors around the ring.
10:46 am
August 10, 2012
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Got something new to learn while shooting. These assignments are fun.
Thanks,
Kay.
11:40 am
July 9, 2012
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Here is my entry
3:15 pm
July 23, 2012
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Hey everyone,
Fun assignment! Here's my ring. It's pretty beat up because I where it always. This is the first time I took it off to do this assignment.
Thanks,
Lynn
4:03 pm
September 4, 2009
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Lynn, where is the ring? do not see anything
4:10 pm
March 5, 2012
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Well here is my shot. I hot glued the ring to a tiny dowel and had 1 light above with a strip box. I used a DIY light table made of translucent translum and in front I had a white piece of foam core with a hole cut out for my camera. I covered as much of the sides as possible to block all dark reflections. I also covered the top of the whole thing with a piece of the translucent plastic. No light directly hit the ring.
I used a macro lens I borrowed and it was an Vivitar 70-200mm fully manual lens from the late 1970's so no EXIF data was recorded. I'm sure I was set at 70mm and around f/8 but I really have no clue. It was shot at 1/200 of a second. I used a Manfrotto 454 focusing rail for this and took a whopping 32 photos which I merged in photoshop, then blended together. I'm still in the post processing stage and still have about 4 more hours to go to complete.
Here is the image in progress along with 4 behind the scenes photos of my setup.
4:22 pm
July 29, 2012
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The ring was strung across a piece of floss, I took it down before the setup shot
5:57 pm
March 25, 2012
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Here is my submission. Used two flashes to light from underneath the table and one flash bounced from foil to lighten the diamonds. I used 100mm macro lens took about 6 images and focus stacked in PS.
I guess its too much black spots on the ring it was caused from two black cardboards positioned on each side of the ring, I put that to give depth to a shiny object. Not sure if it works?
Thanks
Edgaras Bendikas
Here is the same ring without focus stacking.
6:16 pm
July 3, 2012
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My submission for the ring shot:
A bit frustrating that I managed to travel to my shooting space and realise I'd left the translum at home…I had one small cut off piece in the van,so had to make do with just a half cone shape diffusion. I also cut a hole for the lens in some white mount board then placed it on the camera. The ring was placed on a small piece of white perspex, held upright by some dental wax.
Three lights, two with 10 degree grids and one with a snoot (the nearest light was eventually angled slightly towards the white mount board to provide some front lighting) . I tried using the speedlight hand held from above to highlight the stones but the surface of them is very pitted and it was having little or no effect. It's the fiirst time I've used a focusing rail, 11 shots taken, which I'm not sure was quite enough as I've had to do one hell of a lot of post processing on this.
Lessons I've learned:
1. DO NOT leave home without important items..
2.DO NOT shoot old dirty jewellery in bad condition (dents/scratches etc) unless I want to lose hours of my life in photoshop…
3. DO NOT use too much wax to hold jewellery in place, as this will only add to the misery of No.2
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
Mark Twain
7:33 pm
April 14, 2012
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Alex and all,
This is my submission for this assignment. This time the challenge was to decide which ring to use and what memories or emotion I wanted to portrait in the shot. This ring is made to be given as a gift for a special Occasion. I found that working with very small shinny items, specially used jewelry, require a lot of cleaning, a process that was probably longer than the shot setup. I tried several ways to hold the ring up in the air, fishing line, wood stick painted white, but finally found that very thin memory wire held the ring well and was easy to paint over in Photoshop.
The setup was my DIY shooting table, two soft boxes with strobes and two flash. The soft boxes with strobes were positioned to the right and left and slightly towards the back of the table. One flash, from the front left, was used to highlight the ring. A second flash, with yellow gel, was used to light the translucent white background from the back to give it some coloring. To give the ring some dark edges, I added a black card reflector on top and a smaller one on the right side. Minor post production was done in Photoshop to erase the wire that held the ring in the air, removed some dust spot and boosted the colors and sharpened it slightly.
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