The Ring Shot

Damn but I'm spending too much time on macro photography at the moment. Saw this little shot done in an e-book and decided to give it a go. So easy and a lovely effect:

To do this you need a desk lamp (set behind and above the book and ring), a hard-back book (paper backs don't seem to sit just as nicely) and your camera on a tripod. As always the Sigma 105mm macro lens was used and set on aperture priority with an f-stop around 5.6 for quite shallow depth of field. This gave me a shutter speed of 1/100 at ISO 200. The narrow depth of field worked well for keeping the text blurred front and back and focusing the eye on the ring and the heart-shaped shadow. No image manipulation used - colours adjusted in Lightroom, cropped and a little dark vignette in the corners.