The Blog of Photographer Jacob Vorpahl.
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For my last day of the theme “things that fit in the palm of my hand”, I chose to photograph my wedding band. Whenever my and wife and I went out looking at bands for me, I decided I wanted something very, very simple and inexpensive. I also wanted something someone could cut through in case it needed to be cut off (at the time I was going to be heading back to Iraq), so we went with a lightweight metal, the type of which I can’t remember. The thing is ridiculously light, to the point that sometimes I forget that it is there.
Nonetheless, it has seen some better days, and now it is marked showing it’s very young age of a little over 2 years at the time of the picture. 2 years of constant abuse (I mean, I do forget it is there). So I setup a macro shot showing some of the dents and scrapes it proudly bears.
I shot this with a 70-300mm VR lens with a Canon 500D close-up filter attached. 1 SB800 with a Lumiquest Softbox III attached was used, firing from around… two inches overhead. Triggered via CLS.
