I considered a long exposure with an old-school alarm clock with the bells ringing and jiggling about, but I don’t own such a clock. I considered making an image of magician rings that will lock together, but I don’t those either. I even thought about pressing a door-bell button, but I didn’t think that I could make the image as appealing photographically as I could with my wedding band.
A typical rings wouldn’t so, but I figured that the engraving inside my own ring would add significant interest to the image if I could photograph it well enough.
Initially, I was going to use natural window light, but the corners of room and ceiling fans were reflecting inside the ring when photographed from underneath, which I saw as the only option (capturing the image from above is too easy and obvious). So I pulled out the speedlights, but the umbrella modifiers were ultimately smaller than I would have preferred (or too far away, although positioned them as close to the subject as I could). But, as if often the case, I decided to continue on with the best that I had available to me at the time.
I imported the image SOOC and only rotated the image a mere 1 degree and re-cropped it before importing the image into gimp to clone-out the fishing line that was tied to the ring and taped to the ceiling above. That was it.
Overall, I am please with the outcome. It is not perfect, and I know how I could have spent a lot of time trying to improve it, but it wasn’t worth it to me at the time. Still isn’t today.
