diamond ring on brushed aluminum

[psyrex]

Simply lit by a yellowish desk lamp. Only post production is sharpening and cropping. Shot hand held with XSi with a Tamron 17-50mm, at 50mm f/2.8.

Oh, and she said yes. I'm engaged!

[besu]

congratulations!!!
its beautiful

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi there and welcome .....and congratulations ... good looking ring ...

[cshine]

I remember trying to photograph our engagement ring when we got it - it's actually pretty hard to do well! (Could make for an interesting Assignment some week..

[Preacherman]

Hi psyrex and welcome to DPS. Well, you will always remember you first post on DPS I suppose. The shot is great with the focus not surprisingly on the diamond, enhanced by the beautiful grain on the surface. Many congratulations. Care for each other always, and above all, stay freinds. God bless, PAUL

[CanonRebelz]

nice shot!! and congratulations!!

[ronald.be]

Very nice picture. Love the compo!

I'm also considering the 17-50 tamron lens and seeing this pic only proves that I need to buy it! Are you happy with tamron lens?

[Jatala]

Congrats on the engagement, and I couldn't agree more with Preacherman. I like the brushed Al background alot. Thanks for sharing!

[psyrex]

Thank you all! I'm very very happy.

Originally Posted by ronald.be

Very nice picture. Love the compo!

I'm also considering the 17-50 tamron lens and seeing this pic only proves that I need to buy it! Are you happy with tamron lens?

Yes I am, it's a great lens, and the new Tamron 17-50mm VC is probably even better. I've played with the VC in the Tamron 28-300mm lens and it's a very stable system. I'm very tempted to upgrade to VC.

One downfall is that usually most of the pictures require some contrast enhancement in post for really vibrant shots. If you normally shoot in raw and edit later, you wouldn't notice the difference.

[cshine]

Originally Posted by psyrex

Yes I am, it's a great lens, and the new Tamron 17-50mm VC is probably even better. I've played with the VC in the Tamron 28-300mm lens and it's a very stable system. I'm very tempted to upgrade to VC.

Actually I was just reading this review about the 17-50 VC and apparently it is a little lacking:

"Overall, the Tamron 17-50mm non-VC lens is sharper, has less vignetting, has a similar amount of CA and has less barrel distortion on the wide end but more pincushion distortion on the long end. The non-VC 17-50 is a bit smaller and lighter. Obviously the 17-50 VC has the 4-stop-rated (I didn't test this yet) stabilization advantage. "