Jewels

With this picture, I wanted to express one of my favourite things; jewelry! This was the one occasion that my mother would let me play with her engagement ring. So, I took a collection of my favourite costume jewelry, put it onto the black marble which I used to bring out the colours even more, and went to town!

Out of the 30 some pictures I took of these three rings, this was my favourite. To bring out the contrast even more in Photoshop, I used the Brightness/Contrast tool, Aetherize, a very small amount of Gaussian Blur, and the Render/Lighting Effects tool. As with most of photographs in my porfolio, I did the same with this picture with the Brightness/Contrast tool and Aetherize. With Gaussian Blur, I only used a very small amount because I wanted preserve the shine, but again, soften the rest of the picture. Now with the Lighting Effect tool, I used the Soft Omni lighting effect. I put the settings on Matte, Plastic, -8% of under exposure, and -44% of Ambience. I centred the light in the middle of the picture and spread it out almost completely, leaving the black corners of the picture to be effected by the ambience.