The Iron Ring!

 

 

This is an interesting picture that I took when I was working on a photography assignment for a Facebook group. My objective is to use shadow to create an interesting image.

 

See http://fmphotocourses.blogspot.com/2006/08/assignment-2-light-and-shadow.html

 

Since it is winter time in Calgary and it is too cold for me to go out and look for any ideal subject. I decided to borrow the idea of the "The One Ring" from the link above.

 

I didn't realize how hard to balance the ring on the desk. So I spun the ring, and took multiple camera shot with 1/1000 s shuttle speed. The picture is one example.

 

The hardiest part is focusing, because I used a high aperture 4.5F, if the spinning ring goes outside of the focus range, I would have a blurry ring.

 

I did manage to make a ring stand by itself. Looks pretty nice.

 

However, I like this one the most. Using the sun light reflection on the desk, it created a high contrast image with the ring, which make the ring and its shadow looks astonishing!

 

There you go!