The rogue watch is designed by TokyoFlash in Japan and has a very unique and interesting design. You tell the time by looking at the gaps in the pattern. The inner circle tells the hour, the tiny lights around the very edge tell the minutes, the largest sections tell the minutes to the closest 5 minute period, and the half-circle arc tells whether it is AM or PM (in this case it is to the left, so AM). It’s a crazy watch, but it was very fun to shoot.
The watch itself is highly reflective, so I built my own light-tent-triangle out of white plexiglass and shot the watch from above. It was lit with 3 Canon speedlites at various power levels through the white plexi — providing nice, soft, even lighting for those gorgeous highlights.
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This is the final shot for a recent shoot with Derek Fidler behind the wheel of his BMW M3. The idea was to capture a sense of mystery while also emphasizing the pure intensity Derek has been known to show while driving. Below is a series of behind-the-scenes shots from this shoot. As you can see, the lighting got a little complicated here. I started off with no lights, then one by one added very focused small light sources here and there to paint Derek with highlights, making sure to leave enough shadow to give the portrait a mysterious element. I think the total got up to around 9 lights — including one voice-activated-light (ala david hobby style) laying down in the back seat.
