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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 163553" data-attributes="member: 4923">I like these better. The ones you posted yesterday drew my eye right to the blurry backside. These (except for #1) draw my eye to the ring and I want to enjoy the detail. The back edge is still just a bit blurry, but it does not distract my eyes like yesterday. Like Rick M said yesterday, the edges leading to the back should still be sharp and I think you have done that.What did your f-stop and distance to the ring end up being for #2 and #6? (black ring and gold cross ring). Some people did not like the black spot in the reflections, I don't have advice for the lighting and reflections. I never take pictures of shiny things like this. As a customer, the reflections wouldn't bother me. Maybe because I know they are just reflections and not flaws.&nbsp;Riverside made a good point. I never thought about shooting hundreds of these. So when you are happy with the shot, make sure you can easily repeat it anytime. If you used sharpening or contrast or whatever in photoshop, you could try setting your in-camera jpg settings to do that for you automatically. Then at most you would only need to do a quick crop.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nickt, post: 163553, member: 4923"] I like these better. The ones you posted yesterday drew my eye right to the blurry backside. These (except for #1) draw my eye to the ring and I want to enjoy the detail. The back edge is still just a bit blurry, but it does not distract my eyes like yesterday. Like Rick M said yesterday, the edges leading to the back should still be sharp and I think you have done that. What did your f-stop and distance to the ring end up being for #2 and #6? (black ring and gold cross ring). Some people did not like the black spot in the reflections, I don't have advice for the lighting and reflections. I never take pictures of shiny things like this. As a customer, the reflections wouldn't bother me. Maybe because I know they are just reflections and not flaws. Riverside made a good point. I never thought about shooting hundreds of these. So when you are happy with the shot, make sure you can easily repeat it anytime. If you used sharpening or contrast or whatever in photoshop, you could try setting your in-camera jpg settings to do that for you automatically. Then at most you would only need to do a quick crop. [/QUOTE]

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