Is this too big? (some photo advice)

[martintyler]

Sorry if this is obvious to some, but I see threads with people posting a photo of a wristshot asking if it looks too big, most of the time it does, but not because the watch is too big, it's because the photo wasn't taken well.

Excuse the poor quality of these shots, i just did them quickly to demonstrate.

If you take your wrist shot with your phone with the standard lens, the watch will likely look too big, if you have a relatively new phone with lens options, choose the longest one, eg the 'x2', and if you don't care about the quality of the shot and are really just doing it to test the size of the watch, zoom in so it is more like x4, this will give a more natural and realistic look on how the watch fits. The key is the distance the phone/camera is from the watch.

Here are three shots, taken on an iPhone 11 pro max at x1, x2 and zoomed to x4 respectively.

People always comment on the lugs hanging over the wrist, well look, same watch, same wrist..

So remember, get that camera a good distance from your wrist, and zoom in if needed.

[Cru Jones]

Interesting to see the differences, thanks.

[The OG Beef]

Bang on post. Often hard to explain this to folks who don’t grasp the optics and perspective issues. These samples make it clear.


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[rootbeer7]

Great post. Close up hi-res images of a 33mm vintage piece can make it look huge!

[Doctor.Ian]

Fantastic advice, thanks for sharing!

You’re right in that the default camera replicates a 28mm field of view, which is quite wide and exaggerates proportions closer to the lens. So zooming or shooting through a mirror will be a better replicate our eyes’ normal “focal length”.

The below photos of the Omega NTTD Seamaster illustrates this quite well:





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[martintyler]

Originally Posted by Doctor.Ian

Fantastic advice, thanks for sharing!

You’re right in that the default camera replicates a 28mm field of view, which is quite wide and exaggerates proportions closer to the lens. So zooming or shooting through a mirror will be a better replicate our eyes’ normal “focal length”.

The below photos of the Omega NTTD Seamaster illustrates this quite well:

Yeah, great example shots too, plenty of wrist outside of the lugs.

[zion_rasta]

Looks small actually

[emtee]

Originally Posted by Doctor.Ian

Fantastic advice, thanks for sharing!

You’re right in that the default camera replicates a 28mm field of view, which is quite wide and exaggerates proportions closer to the lens. So zooming or shooting through a mirror will be a better replicate our eyes’ normal “focal length”.

The below photos of the Omega NTTD Seamaster illustrates this quite well:





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Great example. Whenever I post wrist shots they always look like they overhang but looking at myself in a mirror they look just fine. And I gueee that’s the perspective any onlooker will have.