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How to take images of watches (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by watchheroes@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I am trying to take images of some watches and I am trying to do it so that I don't have the reflection of the glass. The images are coming out terrible and I don't know what to do to get them to look like the link below.

The link is a series of images where the glass looks like its not even there.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cztyy7Sr6rK/?hl=en&img_index=1

Any help or tips would be much appreciated.

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[–] herehaveallama@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

A lot of these are done in studio with a backdrop edited in. You can see the studio reflected in some of the watches.

It’s all light control. I recommend you to watch Karl Taylor on YouTube with special attention to lighting reflective surfaces.

Usually when I have to shoot social campaigns for jewelry with my wife, I end up grabbing a reflector with a black side and use it to control the reflections of the product surface - it looks like those photos.

I’ve never tried the polarizing filter for product photography. Hell, I’ve never heard or seen anyone recommend it. Reading about it here for the first time.

Here’s Karl’s channel showing the principles of lighting in two minutes (forget the cone just use a dark room) https://youtu.be/y7uBr6CnTF8?si=PdMjA-G_uaH1cvY6