Shooting Wedding Invitations and Wine Glass

I've seen some beautiful pictures of Wedding Invitations with the couples rings on them. What lense would you recommend and the setup (diagrams would be great).

Also would like to try a wine glass with rings inside, again any ideas.

Thanks in advance! There are some fantastic photographers here and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try a macro I have found the closer you can physical get the better. I ring light helps also.

Dennis_Hammer wrote in post #9012729
Try a macro I have found the closer you can physical get the better. I ring light helps also.

Thanks for the help! I'll try that.

24-70 will get you close, but it's not a true macro. For really tight ringshots, a 100mm macro works really well. Just remember to keep your shutter speed way up because camera shake is tough handholding macro.

I use a 100 F2.8 macro, but if I was buying now i'd get the EF-s 60mm macro. Shorter lens = more depth of field, which is what you need with macro images.

I have an assistant hold an off camera softbox with radio triggers, but i've had good luck with a fast 30mm prime and ambient light too.

Or shoot the rings and wine glass separately and then use photoshop to put the rings in it.

Thanks for all your ideas, I'll try them this weekend.

I just picked up the 100 IS macro and will be using that. Had been using the 24-70 on a crop body, but still found myself having to crop down quite a bit to get the composure I wanted. And I hate throwing away pixels that I've already paid for.

Peacefield wrote in post #9020121
I just picked up the 100 IS macro and will be using that. Had been using the 24-70 on a crop body, but still found myself having to crop down quite a bit to get the composure I wanted. And I hate throwing away pixels that I've already paid for.

I know what you mean. I have a pic of a couple in a wine glass and if I could find someone to turn that into a template (remove the current couple) then it could be used for rings also and I'd send it to you. I have been on 3 boards so far and have asked around and no one either doesn't know how to make a template from a current image or isn't willing....so much for the photographic community helping one another.

a macro or if you dont have one, pickup some extension tubes.