This week I decided to expand upon last months watch study. This time I tried to capture a different watch in far greater detail. I mainly focused on how using a single light would affect the reflective surface of the all metal watch.
The results are shown below.
Today I decided to practice some watch photography techniques. The main goal of this project was to create an image that would resemble a magazine ad for a wrist watch.
The setup for this shot was pretty simple. I attached my watch to a tripod and placed my camera directly above it. As for the lighting I used a single flash which was diffused by a white sheet. Additional light was provided by a flashlight held at arms length in various positions to fill in additional details.
I ended up with around five shots with lighting set for specific areas of the shot. The shots were then combined in Photoshop in order to create the final image.
There are two different versions of the final image. One with just a plain black background, and the other with a fabric background superimposed in the background.
This project was a lot of fun, and I intend to expand upon it in the coming weeks.
As always any feedback is greatly appreciated. I hope you all have a great day and a great new year.
Final Image With The Fabric Background.
Final Image With No Background.
Recently Google has made the popular Nik suit of photoshop plugins free to download. I have been looking at this particular plugin suit for quite some time, and now that it's free I figured it's time to give it a try.
I decided to re edit "Gone and Still Forgotten" to practice using the Silver EFX Pro plugin.
The following image is the result.
I've been wanting to get into macro photography for quite some time now. The following images are my first attempts. Both photos were taken using a Canon 50mm 1.8 lens attached to the camera with a few macro extension tubes. As of writing this post I have not purchased a macro lens. I've found that the extension tubes tend to distort the image and produce results that are rather fuzzy. I can only get better with practice and who knows, perhaps i'll buy a proper macro lens in the near future.
As always any feedback is appreciated.
The following is another installment of my photo series, "Time - Part 1". I decided to take a break from the overall theme of the project and shoot this one in color as apposed to black and white. I will still include a black and white version of this shot, however I like the color version a lot more.
As always any feedback is always appreciated. Let me know what you think.
Above: "Passing Time" - Final Version
Below: "Passing Time" - B&W Version
Another installment in my photo series "Time - Part 1". This particular image was done as a test using atmospheric haze for studio photography.
Here is another addition to my photo series "Time - Part 1". I was trying to recreate an image I saw in a book I was reading, with my own personal touch of course. In order to pull this off I ended up building my own floor, and after a few days of work I ended up with the following image. It's meant to look like the floor of an abandon building, with a pocket watch sitting on it. Any other meaning is totally up to the viewer.
If interested you can purchase this along with the other images in "Time - Part 1" at the following link.
Let me know what you think. I hope you all enjoy. I only have one more photo planned for this series so definitely look foreword to that. In the meantime enjoy.