Clock is ticking

Had a late drill tonight, and had zero ideas for pictures. After about half an hour of struggling around in the garage trying to come up with something, Victor found this old pocket watch. It was all tarnished and basically just looked really cool.

I already had the soft box on one of the strobes at 1/8 power, so I just stuck that to the left of the watch and it actually worked out perfectly. The watch was being held in this little soldering clamp thing, so that just sat on the table with the soft box off to the right of it. Pretty simple set up.

Camera settings: ISO100, f8, 1/200, 135mm.

Editing was super quick because I was tethered to the computer the file was already on it. Highlights up, clarity up, vignette, lower exposure a bit, local adjustment on the watch face to up the highlights and bring that back from the vignette. All done.

See you tomorrow!