I actually did catch this falling but cloned out the lens blur because it looked very unnatural. I'm confident leaving the lens blur would have gotten me in the 4s.
This ring is being dropped into water & I planned on catching it half submerged with a reflection. Perhaps I should have stuck with that. I was just way too taken with the simplicity of this and having the inscription nice and clear, so I didn't use my water shots. Still, that's water w/ blue food coloring in the background.
A little voice in the back of my head tells me not to enter photos like this one just before I leave them and perhaps I'll learn to start listening to that voice more.
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I like the concept here, but without any sign of motion I see floating rather than falling. Try using flash on 2nd curtain sync with a slower shutter speed and a bit of ambient light to get a bit of trailing motion blur.
Nice stock shot look to this and I'm sure it will do ok but, hasn't much pizazz...perhaps, having a hand below it might have added to it? I DO get the message behind the falling gold prices though!
I understand your intent to make it look like it is falling, but the viewer needs some frame of reference in the background. Otherwise it looks like a poorly cropped stock photo of a ring.
I'm not sure what your technique is here. If your ring actually is falling, try to give it some sort of texture or point of reference in the background. If you can't pull off a falling object then try hanging it from fishing line.
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