One of my favorite parts of shooting a wedding is the wedding-ring shot. It’s one of my favorite images to capture because it requires a lot of creativity, patience and skill to get a visually appealing and sharp image. It’s especially challenging to capture this shot because I’m not always in the most ideal of locations – such as a dark church or a plain hotel room – so there’s always some extra brainstorming to come up with something great for these shots. I love it!
For ring shots, you really need a macro lens. The one I use isn’t super expensive, but it does the job. Shooting at a higher f-stop makes for sharp stones in the rings, so I try and shoot no lower than f/10 or f/12, but my preference if I have enough light is to shoot around f/18. When you set up this shot, look for lots of bright light. Use a backdrop that will create either a very classic set-up, or something that will help to tell the color story of the day.
Here is a behind the scenes shot of one of my recent set-ups. I had already captured a dark, mirrored image of the rings, so I wanted to do something brighter and more colorful so the bride would have another option for her album design.
Hi, love the way this looks. Can you please share what lens you are using? I am looking for a macro lens myself and I’m very confused. I appreciate the help! Thanks!
I don’t use this particular lens anymore – I currently use a 100mm canon macro