Photography
Gary G shares a curated portfolio of 10 watch photographs, marking a personal milestone and the beginning of professional photography lessons. His post delves into the subjective process of selecting images for critique, highlighting the challenges of achieving technical perfection while maintaining artistic vision. This article offers a unique glimpse into a collector's journey to master the art of horological photography.
Greetings, everyone! I am in the process of starting a series of lessons with a noted professional watch photographer, with the goal of improving my technique and diversifying my photographic approaches. One of the initial requirements is to select a portfolio of 10 images and submit it for initial comment.
Easier said than done! All sorts of interesting thought processes ensued -- and many of my favorite images didn't make the cut because while I happened to like them, they had obvious "issues" like visible watch stands, background objects, strange reflections, etc. And, as it turns out many of the images that I thought were really solid don't stand up to my renewed scrutiny on things like contrast, lighting, sharpness, etc.
I've now strained it all down to 10 images, and as I just noticed that I've crawled past 2500 posts here thought it might be fun to post the portfolio here to mark the occasion. I think that most if not all of these have appeared on PuristS previously, but if you don't visit the various sub-fora a few may be new to you.
As the series of lessons goes along I may post a few images and observations if that's of interest to folks -- in the interim I am preparing for the first burst of constructive criticism from my teacher. As I tell folks at work, the key to personal development is that the joy of improvement has to exceed the pain of imperfection!
With that, here are the photos:
We'll see what I hear!
Best,
Gary G
Well done, those are seriously good. Cheers, Tim
that according to my graph http://timeout.watchprosite.com/show-forumpost/fi-686/pi-5395713/ti-803133/s-0/ you need to Practice more :) :) Best D
a need for more coaching, but your work stands on it's own. You could be the photo master.
I'd be very interested on what - if any - suggestions they come back with..!! Superb pics :) Andy.
But it seems that you are good in this. Therefore, you'll need to avoid reflections, which is not always the case. And to improve on the background, the composition. The Ploprof picture is excellent, but you didn't crop it well, for example. The 5070P is another good picture but a part of the case is eaten by the black reflection. All in all, your pictures are way above the average quality of what we use to see, and improving is always possible, but it will be hard to fo better than this. Best,
I'm sure it took hours to make this final selection as there is always a detail we are proud of, in any pictures, and that makes us want to share it. Your pictures, as you now, are really stunning and is a gift as we can see quite close as "in the flesh" (even if it's never possible to have a picture as good as in the metal) thos exceptionnal timepieces. Thank you for that by the way! When looking at this the selection you made, for me at least, there is trully something more. If I could dare to
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