Wedding Ring Shot - Getting Yourself Out of the Reflection

During a recent wedding, I was doing a few ring shots on one of the shiniest rings I've ever seen. It was probably well polished before the wedding.

Well, I noticed in the preview screen, that it was catching reflections of my lens. I look through a few photos here on POTN, and if you look closely, some of the ring photos, you can see a camera lens.

The only way for me to capture it is to go with a 70-200, for example, and stand far away. But for macro shots or closer up shots, what do people here do?

cover yourself with a blanket

I use the 100 macro and even that typically goes on my crop body so I do indeed get to stay a distance back. Plus, dressing in all black and the camera and lens also being black, I'm not too worried about that as a reflection. Not unlike a mirror, I suppose you could play more with the angle of the ring and position it so it sees less of you.

I've had this problem but not with the rings. A wedding last year involved a vintage Rolls Royce. I wanted to do a closeup of the hood with a fisheye. The way it came out, it might as well have been a self portrait.

Try making sure more light falls on the rings than on your, that'd be a start.

The way I do this is to take them into a dark room (or at least out of direct sunlight), use a 550EX inside a soft box pointed at the rings etc. There's almost no light falling on the camera so you don't really see it much. I only do it this way if I have time at the reception, otherwise I just figure it's not critical.

Photoshop later

A mix of this:

tim wrote in post #11220751
Try making sure more light falls on the rings than on your, that'd be a start.

And this:

lil_miss wrote in post #11227566
Photoshop later