Emerald Cut Diamonds and My Best Friend

I was beyond excited when I got the phone call from my best friend Chanel that her boyfriend Jared proposed last week.  The proposal story involves electronics and pretty good creativity on Jared's part- nothing less than expected from him. Unfortunately (for me) Chanel and Jared are moving out of state in a few weeks so I drove my booty up to Athens for some much needed girl-time and celebration with my friends.  When visiting, I took the opportunity to practice some ring photography.  The only easy part about shooting her ring was finding really cool places to put it but that was about it. 

Apparently, emerald cut diamonds are very hard to shoot.  For whatever reason (I have yet to google my answer) but the diamond reflects like really strangely.  Sometimes it looks flat while other times it looks empty... so weird.  On top of that, I do not have a macro lens that's ideal for this kind of photography.. I shall add that on my ever long "things i need list." Needless to say, I think I did alright with what I had, a 50mm 1.8/f.   Thanks for the practice Chanel and CONGRATS to you both!

Don't we all wish we could be so beautiful after a late night, sans make-up? Only Chanel :)