How Can You Take Photos Of Your Engagement Ring - Our Photographer's Top Tips
In this article, we will share some of the top tips to take photos of your engagement ring. Our creative team endorses all these tips.
Get The Lighting Right
Photography is literally 'painting with light'. If the lighting is not correct, nothing can make your engagement ring photos look great. Natural sunlight can be your best friend as long as it is bright and contrasty enough. Dull days will never allow your diamond engagement ring to sparkle at its best.
When it is too dark, don't try to get away with flash! All that will happen is that the light of the flash will reflect right back into the lens and give a white flare that is not at all attractive. Bright artificial light can provide good results. Try to work with LED room lighting. This technique will give natural-looking images without the need to alter the colour balance in an editing program.
Get Your Angles Right!
Try taking pictures from various angles. The way the light interacts with the ring's centre stone will vary as the light catches it at different angles. Just like humans, diamond rings often have a 'good' side'!
When you choose different angles, your photos will emphasise various elements of the ring's design, which can help you create an attractive package of images that can look great on Facebook or Instagram.
Use Natural, Relaxed Hand Poses
When taking pictures of the ring, it is normal for the model's hand and fingers to be visible.
In life, it might not seem to make much difference but in photos, a relaxed position will tend to look more natural and pleasing to the eye. Avoid stretched out fingers; allow them to have a natural curve. Check out some hand poses for inspiration; look on Instagram and Pinterest to see how other photographers take photos of diamond rings and choose hand poses that appeal to you.
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Check Out The Background.
Beautiful sea views, green forests, blue lakes - all make beautiful and easy backdrops. Mainly because they will be distant enough to be out of focus, just giving an impression of the locale. If you're away from home, perhaps on vacation, then you are probably in luck. But if that's not an option, don't worry! If you're taking photographs in your home, try to use your partner or even the both of you as the background with the ring up close in the foreground.
Another option is to use your own living space as a backdrop. Try to keep the background as far from the ring as possible so that the background is not distracting and, whatever you do, tidy up the room before you start taking photos. A messy background will be distracting even if it is relatively distant or out of focus.
You Can Use Props To Add interest To Your Engagement Ring Photographs
Once you have set up your background, arrange the foreground to choose items that can enhance and add interest to the shot of the ring and the model's hand. You don't have to use props. Try with and without and see which you prefer. Good and easy props might be the ring box, flowers, colours and textures from attractive fabrics or even an attractive mug or a wine glass. Whatever you choose, the ring should be the focus of the viewer's attention.
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Your Model's Nails
Time for a close-up inspection of your model's fingernails! Make sure that any nail polish is in perfect condition. Chipped nail polish looks terrible in pictures of rings. Likewise for poorly cut nails, cuticles or hangnails. Small details like these can turn an average photograph into a work of art! This is an excellent excuse to treat your model (or yourself) to a manicure. Tidy up the cuticles and use some nail oil to give the fingernails additional shine. The model's hands can make or break the pictures and, when done well, can look cute with the beautiful engagement ring.
Understand Your Engagement Ring
Look at your engagement ring; remember what it was that you liked about it. If you fell in love with a unique or unusual design element, try to include it in at least some of your photographs. You can point out the feature to viewers on your Instagram.
About Your Camera
If you're using your phone to take pictures, remember that although modern phone cameras are improving every year, they are still not as good as a proper digital camera. If you have a digital compact camera, or especially a DSLR, then try to use it. But don't despair if you only have a phone camera; after all, that's what most people use these days.
One trick that can make your phone camera pics look better is not to use the zoom built into the camera. It will always reduce the quality of the image. It is much better to crop the photo in whatever editing software you have. Even the editing software in your camera will be better than zooming when you take the picture. If you follow the pointers above, then your photos will look better than almost any pics taken by most amateur photographers!
Take Lots Of Pictures
Unlike old fashioned film cameras, it costs nothing to take lots of pics, so do it! The best picture might turn out to be one that you didn't think would be as good as it was. With lots of photos taken, you can be more sure to take 'The One' and have several other images of which you can be proud. With all the different angles, backgrounds, props, and poses, you are likely to take the perfect picture.
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Some people prefer to post only the very best picture. Others prefer to share several images. If you choose the latter option, make sure that you only share images you are proud of. Don't dilute the impact of your lovely new diamond ring by posting so many pictures that the effect is lost. Better one perfect image than many average pictures! Keep things simple and keep your standards high. Perhaps choose a favourite image each and post just those two images, one on your account and one on your partner's account.
Photo Editing
Modern photo editors, even those built into your phone, can really make a difference to the way your engagement ring pictures look. Don't be afraid to crop your photos to include only the essential elements of the image. Choose a filter or two that make your image pop. Experiment with the filters to choose one or two that have the best effect.
Now that you know the secrets of how to take photos of your engagement ring, it is time to get creative and have fun.
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