Golden watch

[Bo_]

This is a close up picture of my wife's newest wristwatch (she's a bit of a collector). I wanted to make a nice picture with a nice DOF and shadow.

A couple of questions:
Did I crop to close - secondly is there to much shadow in the picture - and how do you like the setup.

The picture was taken with a Canon Powershot s3is with a fixed aperture of f/2.7 in super macro mode, Exposure: 1/250s, ISO: 100.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8217061@N04/2232783059/" ti-tle="Watch by bo_2007, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2103/2232783059_58af27b849.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="Watch" /></a>

[clockdoc]

Hi Bo. I think you have captured a nice shot of the watch itself with the band drifting off into a soft background. Since your dept of field is so limited with your fixed aperture, you may want to move farther away from the watch to increase depth of field and then crop later for a larger image. Typically you will see many clocks and wayches photographed with the time set at 10:10 or 1:50. It seems to provide a good balance for the position of the hands. Also, my personal preference would be to see the watch in a more upright manner so that the text is more easily seen and read. Lastly, try using a bounce card to lighten the shadow side of the image. Overall though, a nice shot!

[Nathan deGargoyle]

I'd try to get the whole face of the watch in focus, increasing the DoF a little.
Otherwise I like it.

@Lee: The 10:10 or 1:50 setting for hands in shop windows is supposed to make the watch look like it's smiling at you (or is that another one of thos things "that everybody knows but that ain't so" to quote Lazarus Long?).

[dognutmom]

@Lee: The 10:10 or 1:50 setting for hands in shop windows is supposed to make the watch look like it's smiling at you (or is that another one of thos things "that everybody knows but that ain't so" to quote Lazarus Long?).


I read somewhere, that those hand positions will frame the manufacturers name instead of obscuring part of it.