Hey, in how far are you into watch photography? I'm very interested, if you cared to share your experience. I was into photography a long time ago, my gear is stashed in the deeps of some closet, would love to pick up and make some of it....
My "hobby" for the last decade has been photography. I did stock photography and (still) sell images through image banks and it was a nice secondary source of income but what I like is doing studio portrait photography just for fun. When I got into RWI and started seeing the Eyecandy shots of the day figured it would be fun to start shooting watches. Watches are not easy to photograph because, mostly, of dial reflexions but what I'm liking the most is not the technical part of if but the compositions you can make and the way you can stage the photos. That's basically what product photographers do.
So to answer how far I am into watch photography, I'm just taking it easy and fun, just staging the photos with props and the likes. I'm using natural light and my phone or a Fuji camera. I'm not even using the studio strobes and the Nikon gear. Each area of photography has its tricks and it's fun, if you like photography, to understand and learn. As an example, if you are shooting a watch, you can and should block the light just above the dial (you can use a lens cap or something else small) to prevent reflexions. But that's it. The smoke and mirrors of photography makes me tick. What you see in that small rectangle usually never is reality. It's just that second when everything was aligned perfectly and you never know what else was happening out of those bounds.
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