$20,000 Boucheron Watch

How often do you get to photograph a $20,000 watch? I did today. Boucheron watches has been up on the Top Ten Luxury Watches List quite a few times and not surprising too. The styling is classy without overdoing the gold and diamonds. The face of the watch is the mother of pearl, framed with 124+ diamonds, with a few more on the time markers. For this specific product photography photoshoot, the gold, I mean goal is to bring out the depth of each diamonds and definition of the watch without the watch fading into the white background. This can be difficult since there are quite a few reflective surfaces. I used a total of 2 lights. One for the background and the other for the watch. I've also employed several prisms, mirrors, gobos & flags to get light into specific areas of the watch that will make the metal gloss from highlights to dark shadows, not easy to accomplish. To shoot this, I was given only an hour, truly too little time by product photography standards to shoot a $20k item. But by employing a technique that I've developed and mastered, I took 10 images and siphoned the specific details that I want from each, to create the final print. The three images you see in the gallery are created from over 30 images, carefully overlaid over each other to create the final image that is far stronger than a shot of a single image. - MS