Watch photography

Greetings,
Taking photos of watches is really a challenging task. Not only has to be very careful of all reflections the watch surface creates, but also has to make sure the watch is totally clean of finger print and micro dust specks. This is my first serious attempt. Please comments...

good capture, interesting trying to find the plane of focus you were on to take this shot like this.

great, its good the hands are at 10 and 2... duno if you postioned that on purpose. i would like the see the band though.

awsome shot, I think a little extra saturation and a bit more DOF would look awsome.

What did you use for lighting?

Great job, I have no patience to remove dust specks on the macro level. Well, maybe if it paid good..

I do watch photography professionally, and I think this is an awesome photo - near publishing quality. Two comments would be: 1. The bezel on this watch is very interesting so I'd use a larger DOF. 2. If the second hand was 10 seconds ahead or behind, the six o'clock register wouldn't be obscured.

A very nice photo and I really love that watch!
Ian

Daytona wrote in post #2747262
I do watch photography professionally, and I think this is an awesome photo - near publishing quality. Two comments would be: 1. The bezel on this watch is very interesting so I'd use a larger DOF. 2. If the second hand was 10 seconds ahead or behind, the six o'clock register wouldn't be obscured.

Greetings,
Thanks for the finer details tips. Really appreciate that. Care to criticise this one? Thanks. Enjoy...

Nice.
I find the purple cloth item a little distracting.