So many are missing the entire point of this thread. It's not a how vs why thing. It's not a pinterest thing. It's not a communicating with a bride thing.
It's a simple technical challenge. And no one has had a technical answer.
1. Assume it is a ring. (I'm not sure if it is or isn't, but I am confident it can be done with a ring).
2. TRY IT. It looks simple enough, but you may change your mind when you actually attempt it.
morganb4 wrote:
Its part of a low fence. I dont mind the shot, the colour of the ring is a bit unhelpful but why is this hard? Sorry Im lost.
Try to recreate it with a ring. Take your DSLR out and see if it's as easy as you think.
jeremy_clay wrote
Shoot through a round object. Add a Red saturation layer in Photoshop and adjust to taste. In ten years remark on how you, too, were part of the Instagram New/Vintage photo fad and be happy you kept the RAW file.
Again, try it with a ring.... no cropping, no photoshop, In ten year remark about how you used to write silly answers on a message board.
Assume it's a ring that's being shot through, I think you would need to use a pretty narrow aperture and be very close to the ring. I wouldn't be surprised if this person was shooting the ring with a macro lens and then decided to shoot through it. I say narrow aperture because I think a wider aperture would turn that ring to mush at the distance.
Again, try it with a ring.... no cropping, no photoshop,
How do you know that was how it was done? FWIW I don't think there's only 1 'how' solution here, and sorry if I offended you personally about someone elses photo.
I fail to see how this is a challenge. Technical or not. It seems the comments are focused on if it's a ring or not. What difference does it make if it's a ring, a round frame, a hole in a cup, straw bond in a circle, etc. The shot is through something round that is a closer distance than the subjects. I don't think anyone is missing the point of the post. It's just that this is done every day through leaves, a vase, a fence, etc? Kind of basic foreground out of focus background in focus type of setup.
maxwell1295 wrote:
Assume it's a ring that's being shot through, I think you would need to use a pretty narrow aperture and be very close to the ring. I wouldn't be surprised if this person was shooting the ring with a macro lens and then decided to shoot through it. I say narrow aperture because I think a wider aperture would turn that ring to mush at the distance.
Thanks for being the first to take a real stab.
Not getting the ring to basically disappear is one of the real challenges and a lens that can stop way down would obviously help. But even at f32 I don't think you'd be able to compose the shot like that and keep the ring in focus.
jeremy_clay wrote:
How do you know that was how it was done? FWIW I don't think there's only 1 'how' solution here, and sorry if I offended you personally about someone elses photo.
I don't know how it was done. Which is why I found it so interesting. I didn't think much of it until I went to try to shoot it. Once I was looking through the lens, I was instantly puzzled. At first I just thought it needed to be a wide lens at a low aperature, but I couldn't get anything to work. I guess I could have made it work if I wanted to do a composite or a heavy crop, but I wanted to do it in camera. And not offended, I was just poking fun. Everyone thinks this is a simple shot until they try it.
I've only found one way to do it, in camera. I think a few others my find/stubble onto the same solution I did without even thinking about it. And if they do they may not think it's much of a challenge.
cordellwillis wrote:
I fail to see how this is a challenge. Technical or not. It seems the comments are focused on if it's a ring or not. What difference does it make if it's a ring, a round frame, a hole in a cup, straw bond in a circle, etc. The shot is through something round that is a closer distance than the subjects. I don't think anyone is missing the point of the post. It's just that this is done every day through leaves, a vase, a fence, etc? Kind of basic foreground out of focus background in focus type of setup....Show more →
All I can say is try it. Yeah, it's easy if it's something big and round, but if in fact it is an actual ring it becomes a hard shot.
It's not a ring. Measure the distance between the edge of your camera body and the center of your lens. To be a ring, it would have to be on the edge of some sort of drop off, but then the problem is that the blades of grass would totally engulf the ring.
You can see a leaf overlap the "ring" at the base and the scale is far too large.
Nathan Padgett wrote:
So many are missing the entire point of this thread. It's not a how vs why thing. It's not a pinterest thing. It's not a communicating with a bride thing.
What do you expect. 90% of photographers shoot and talk to please other photographer. Not many of us shoot for the client and talk for the client.
Funny. I just had a bride ask me this week to recreate this exact photo for her. I guess the groom is a Lord of the Rings fan. I like to make my brides happy, too. But, I quickly found out this shot is much trickier than I thought it would be. Someone directed me here, so thanks for posting it, Nathan.
Is the general consensus that the photographer used a circular frame of some sort? Or did you have any other secrets you're not yet sharing, Nathan?
Here's a 2-min proof of concept with my dog and a metal hoop. (obviously, spend some more time at it, and find a better ring-looking hoop than mine... )But, you get the idea:
