Working the detail shot

My goal for this post was to begin photographing any object in my home, and allow the process of "working the shot" to help me end up with a photo that frames my subject matter well, using a unique point of view, rule of thirds, as well as negative space.

My first picture was taken from normal eye-level. We see from this eye-level all the time. Not interesting.

I squatted down to be more on the watch's level. the watch itself seems kind of flat.

I then moved closer, which produced some slightly cool effects due to perspective.. I also tried to frame my subject matter using the rule of thirds...but I'm thinking that I don't like the glass right there, or those placemats in the background - they're all too distracting.

I moved the glass and placemats to focus on my subject matter, but I'm now realizing that I need to move the laptop, the chair, and I'm also going to rotate slightly so that I don't see my movable island in the top right corner.

I am still composing my scene using the rule of thirds in the sense that the watch is more or less at the intersection of the bottom and left thirds, and the table edge is along the upper third.

That's better, but even though I'm close to the watch, I want to get slightly higher, so that I can see more of its strap.

Now I can see it's strap, I can see the cool "7" on the screen, my table is clear, there aren't any odd things distracting me or taking away from the subject. I'm also trading out having the table edge along the upper third and instead filling my composition with negative space.

I'm still not very happy with the overall image, I think the table pattern is slightly annoying, but this has been a fun use of "working the shot" combined with investigating point-of-view, rule of thirds, and negative space.