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Your tree shouldn't be the only thing sparkling this Christmas!
Your tree shouldn't be the only thing sparkling this Christmas!
Darkprincess


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Holiday Catalog (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5000 Z
Location: Knoxville,
Date: Dec 10, 2005
Aperture: f3.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Macro, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Dec 10, 2005

This is my first entry on this site.

1.5 CTW champagne diamond earrings set in rose gold.

I set them on a mirror, hung a small wreath centerpeice with decorative ornaments on it for festive reflection off of the mirror. I used a normal desk lamp aimed from the right side at the earrings. The diamonds did the rest.

Post exposure, there wasnt much I did to this photo,I cropped both sides since the edge of the glass seemed distracting and I used the healing brush to get rid of 2 specs of dust on the mirror.

It looks like something out of a Jared or Sears advertisement to me.

Statistics
Place: 105 out of 120
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Votes: 181
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12/16/2005 08:40:16 PM
I'm not sure the reflection helps the photo. It causes the earrings (?) to blend together into what appears to be a single blob (a very expensive blob probably) And the background is rather questionable as well. The red ball is kind of odd and it's reflection is right next to the earrings.
12/15/2005 09:11:06 PM
I love reflections but this is too much and takes away from the pretty stones.
12/15/2005 05:13:39 AM
Don't know if the subject is strong enough against the background.
Interesting though
12/15/2005 03:57:08 AM
I think that a closer crop would emphasize what is being 'sold'.
12/14/2005 04:07:30 PM
the reflection is making the object seem unclear I cant tell exactly what I am looking at beyond its some kind of jewlery
12/13/2005 10:32:25 PM
Diamonds are forever...but unless they're canary diamonds, they shouldn't be yellow...
12/13/2005 01:00:18 PM
Hmmm, why am I seeing ghost images of the jewlery? It looks like it was moving or something. It looks a little blurry too.
12/13/2005 11:26:17 AM
The reflection is a bit too defined, IMHO. It confuses a bit
12/12/2005 07:56:56 PM
This would have been perfect for me without the mirror and if the diamonds looked white.
12/12/2005 03:34:22 PM
This looks like a good idea but the stones are not reflected well.....and i'm not sure what to comment about the problem. I have tremendous problems lighting jewelry too. Good imagination though.
12/12/2005 03:23:55 PM
I appreciate the effort, you really tried to do a christmas catalog item. However, I find that reflection hard to look at - I guess it is because there is more than ONE reflection, there seem to be several layers of it.
The placement of the studs could be better, too - this is too close to dead center, but not even quite there.
12/12/2005 01:46:43 AM
The mirror makes it confusing and busy...
12/12/2005 12:24:03 AM
I've tried a shot like this before, and with the same results in the reflection with the ghosting. One comment was made to me about the lighting, and if there was more than one light. I guess multiple lights will do that to the reflection. Just food for thought!


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