How to improve....

[Londonchris]

Hi all,

I took this shot to add to my collection of "work" related pics.
New compact camera and very little experience of photography in general, so i could do with some help :)
Quite pleased with this one, though no doubt could be better.


http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Macro_ring.jpg



Thanks for your help.

[oldgit]

Not bad.

- Could do with a dark/black background.
- DOF towards the back of the ring is not quite enough

[CT]

I would have thought jewellery would be better in colour? :shrug:

[RobertP]

I would have thought jewellery would be better in colour? :shrug:

That's what I was thinking but as me and mono don't mix I thought it and moved on earlier :)

What is the subject in this shot? the measure is in good focus and the ring mostly isn't

[CT]

I think it's a ring slid onto one of those size measuring wotsits. :)

[dod]

What is the subject in this shot? the measure is in good focus and the ring mostly isn't
That's my first thought too. The rings the most interesting bit but the sharpest focus is on the wotsit.

[Londonchris]

Hi,

The background was in fact black, thats light from a window causing the lightness.
Ring should be the "main" subject, though i tried to get abit of both ring a measuring thingy in focus to make it abit more interesting.Maybe the DOF set differently would have made a difference...

As for the colour, the idea is to show more detail of how the stones are being set (partly done job) , and in colour it gets abit distracting.

[Keltic Ice Man]

sorry Chris I find the black and white ok and understand the reason for it, but my eye draws to the ruler not to the ring.

I feel the shot is cropped too tight for my liking and think if the ring had been the other way on then we might have seen more of the stones.