Warped Time
Please don't ask me how this photo came to be. This is, once again, a last-minute attempt, made today after I tried and tried yesterday (unsuccessfully, I might add). "Watch" is one of the "easy and therefore difficult" themes, at least for me it was very difficult. It didn't help that I was a little obsessed with reflections, because my first idea was to photograph the reflection of my Dad's watch in the rainbow-coloured mirror dial of one of my "Who cares if the watch is legible as long as it looks cool?" Casio watches. It didn't work, neither as a single image nor as in-camera stacking or focus bracketing.
Next, I tried to photograph the reflection of another Casio in the blank space on the backside of my old pocket watch (the part where, back then, the owner's initials were engraved). Without the initials, it looked like a mirror, nicely framed by an ornate pattern. So I carefully polished it, but it was too scratched and dull, so any reflection was quite muted and blurred. All I managed here was a soft reflection of the indices of an old Skagen Quartz watch, but it didn't look like much. I still tried this and that and then called it a day (or rather: a night).
Today, I decided to give it one more go, and this time, my Mom's antique pocket watch came to the rescue. The latter's back (with an engraved "K") is much shinier and highly polished. And while I still couldn't get any at least halfway clear reflections of yet another Casio's digital dial, I managed to reflect its colours on the guilloche-patterned back of my Mom's pocket watch. I had fixed the pocket watch at 90 degrees onto the black tile with modelling clay, and placed the A1000RBW right next to it. The warped "deformation" was created by the angle of the two lamps and the reflections from the Casio, but, as mentioned above in my first sentence, I really have no idea how. It just happened, and it happened to look good ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Warped Time
Please don't ask me how this photo came to be. This is, once again, a last-minute attempt, made today after I tried and tried yesterday (unsuccessfully, I might add). "Watch" is one of the "easy and therefore difficult" themes, at least for me it was very difficult. It didn't help that I was a little obsessed with reflections, because my first idea was to photograph the reflection of my Dad's watch in the rainbow-coloured mirror dial of one of my "Who cares if the watch is legible as long as it looks cool?" Casio watches. It didn't work, neither as a single image nor as in-camera stacking or focus bracketing.
Next, I tried to photograph the reflection of another Casio in the blank space on the backside of my old pocket watch (the part where, back then, the owner's initials were engraved). Without the initials, it looked like a mirror, nicely framed by an ornate pattern. So I carefully polished it, but it was too scratched and dull, so any reflection was quite muted and blurred. All I managed here was a soft reflection of the indices of an old Skagen Quartz watch, but it didn't look like much. I still tried this and that and then called it a day (or rather: a night).
Today, I decided to give it one more go, and this time, my Mom's antique pocket watch came to the rescue. The latter's back (with an engraved "K") is much shinier and highly polished. And while I still couldn't get any at least halfway clear reflections of yet another Casio's digital dial, I managed to reflect its colours on the guilloche-patterned back of my Mom's pocket watch. I had fixed the pocket watch at 90 degrees onto the black tile with modelling clay, and placed the A1000RBW right next to it. The warped "deformation" was created by the angle of the two lamps and the reflections from the Casio, but, as mentioned above in my first sentence, I really have no idea how. It just happened, and it happened to look good ;)
HMM, Everyone!