Time is money (buisness website photography)

[timmyquest]

A friend of mine has a website/buisness, their theme is "because time is money"

I through these together for him, i havnt heard back from him quiet yet but i wanted to get your opinions.

Obviously he'd only use one

http://www.antiwall.com/time_is_money

I tried to keep get the colors so that they went well with the site, here is his site

http://www.baylore.com/

[RbnDave]

I like the concept and the way you have composed the shots is great. IMO some of the shots could have been stonger if there was more light on the face of the watch and also a bit more depth of field covering the bills.

Overall very nice looking photos. Your friend should find one that works for him.

[timmyquest]

I like the concept and the way you have composed the shots is great. IMO some of the shots could have been stonger if there was more light on the face of the watch and also a bit more depth of field covering the bills.

Overall very nice looking photos. Your friend should find one that works for him.

Yeah i kind of felt the light could have been stronger on the face as well...i'll prolly give it another go before i hit the sack, the picture its self is going to be fairly small so i dunno if it'll make much of a difference to him.

[Scottes]

You need a little more DoF and light. I like 004 the best.

How about 2 watches, and 2 piles of money. One watch with $1.87 reads 9:03. The other has hundreds of dollars, and reads 5:15.

[Radtech1]

I completely agree with the previous poster regarding the depth of field. It does not have to be tac sharp, but the name of the site it not "Time is Blurry". Also, I would get a more formidable watch. Granted, I do not know much about contemporary watches [and I may be looking at a $10,000 Rolex] but it *looks* cheap. Well, maybe not cheap, but certainly not imposing. Take a look at some of the watches here:
http://stores.ebay.com/saskwatches

[timmyquest]

took some advice

www.antiwall.com/time-is-money

I think i like these better

[RbnDave]

Those are better. However, I still think you need more direct light on the face of the clock and the rest of the subject. Maybe try puttting a desk lamp off to the side and infront of the subject (outside of the picture of course). That would light the face of the clock nicely and also give you some nice shadows to make the photo more 3 dimensional. I have zero experience shooting still lifes so take my advice with a grain of salt.

[timmyquest]

so take my advice with a grain of salt.

Well i'm gonna have to sadly, the glossyness of the faces simply reflected too much light and a polarizer only did so much.

My friend saw the pictures and was very happy, he's yet to chose one, but i think he will soon enough.

[Scottes]

Did you try to soften the light? Set up a piece of printer paper just off-frame, It may soften the light enough to reduce reflections. Not that I've had much luck doing this but it's *supped* to work. :)

[timmyquest]

Did you try to soften the light? Set up a piece of printer paper just off-frame, It may soften the light enough to reduce reflections. Not that I've had much luck doing this but it's *supped* to work. :)

Well i moved the light all over the place, sadly all i have is a small desk lamp and (for some unknown reason to me) the only bulbs my mom buys are 100wattts!

I'd like to find a nice soft 50 watt light bulb...i'm sure i can find one tonight if i look :roll:

[Scottes]

Did you try to soften the light? Set up a piece of printer paper just off-frame, It may soften the light enough to reduce reflections. Not that I've had much luck doing this but it's *supped* to work. :)

Well i moved the light all over the place, sadly all i have is a small desk lamp and (for some unknown reason to me) the only bulbs my mom buys are 100wattts!

I'd like to find a nice soft 50 watt light bulb...i'm sure i can find one tonight if i look :roll:

Soft 50 won't do. Get a 150, and put a piece of paper betwen the object and the light. So now all that light looks like it's comning from something the size of the paper, rather than something the size of a lightbulb.

That is to say, it will be much softer because the light isn't as bright, but it's coming from a much larger area.

[Red]

Or try bouncing the light of a white wall or ceiling.

Another thought for the composition: how about the watch round a roll of bills, instead of a wrist. Maybe go as far as adding a suit sleave to imply that the business man IS money, and he's so busy he's always looking at his watch. Maybe

[KO_300D]

in the second set there are some reflections on the bigger watch face that I find distracting.

I like the setup of the first set of pics, and also the above suggestion of watch around money.

I feel that the pictures would benefit from having a hint of the dusky red/pinkish colour on the website blended in there a little bit too. Not sure exactly where, maybe in the sheet or on a far wall or something to that effect

I'd be interested to see the results from a re-shoot using a sheet of paper as a softner if you choose to experiment with that route

all in all I can see the site visually benefitting from one of these as a logo :)