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yeah that does sound the more professional way but for me its alot of time. i picture up to 8 watches a day with 4 sets of pics for 1 watch and a workday is 8 hours so it really puts me in a tough position. also im not doing any catalog pictures. the pictures are for an online watch store.
 
^The good thing about a good setup is once you've figured out the best position for the lights and what power to set them at, it's like an assembly line for the kind of work you do. Set 'em and forget 'em. Photograph one watch on your table, then put the next one in it's place.
 
Exactly. I'm not saying you should go all out on it. But if you do you'll get a nice workflow down for it and most likely be able to do it in the same time or less with a much more professional product. Plus once you get it down you'll be spending less time in post messing around trying to make it look good. Your lighting will already do that for you. Just combine, small tweak and your done. Plus your only talking about 32 pictures a day.
 
yeah thats what im trying now, to get my setup done so it can be like mj said an assembly line. But i dunno it looks like spot metering is not going to get the whole face of my watch as im watching youtube videos of this spot metering.

if you take a look at our site you will get a better idea of the format i do. if you see the first picture of the watch notice how i didnt take a picture of the whole watch but more of the face with the lugs, i didnt crop this i filled the whole frame of the lcd with that much of the watch. we sell alot of preowned watches so i need to zoom in to show all the details and in some cases the imperfections such as scratches. In pictures 2,3,4 i need to focus the whole image so thats a bummer for spot metering correct me if im wrong.

http://elementintime.com/Cartier-Ballon-Bleu-42mm-W69012Z4-Stainless-Steel-Custom-Diamond-Bezel
 
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