Jewellery is always challenging to photograph, whether it’s for a tiny web image or a printed catalogue/ad. And then you’re asked to create an image of 2 very valuable diamond rings large enough to ride on the back of a bus!

Shooting with 36 megapixels of resolution is a start but in order to create this 80 megapixel gigantor (that’s an 85cm print at 300dpi) we utilised a technique known as focus stacking as well as some very gentle interpolation.