They look very nice - the only thing I would comment on is that the
background is a little underexposed [for my taste].  Not much, because
you of course don't want it overpowering the foreground image.... just
a 1/2 (or even 1/3) stop or so.  Maybe a transluscent sheet of white
plastic (curved a little to provide some distinction in shadows) with a
small amount of backlighting?  Alternatively, with the already-taken
pix, you could use Mask Pro or some other good masking tool in PS and
mask out the sculptures and boost the exposure on the background a
little.

Thanks for the pic of the setup.  And as others have mentioned several of
the subjects are a bit dark.

Anyway, I like the guy's work.  Is he going to be putting these up on a
gallery website for selling to the public?

Greg

Ken, Annika, and GT have mentioned all the things to think about in
the future.

Nice to see you've got your first 'pro' job under your belt.  So,
about how much did you charge him?  $100 - $200 for the day?

Good luck in the future.  Hopefully you can quit your day job soon!!

Oh.  And incase you haven't seen the strobist.com's "$10 macro sudio",
it is here: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

May have been very useful in this situation.

-Coach

Shooting digital, use a custom white balance. This do-hickey is pretty
useful for that; it's a good investment:

    http://www.a-digital-eye.net/expodisc.html

It's about the easiest way to get a good white balance with mixed source
lighting. The other way is to include a Gretag-Macbeth card in an image
and use it in Photoshop to set the white-balance compensation.

http://www.ccd-direct.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=17448&cat=327&page=1

When you're lighting something shiny like metal or polished stone, you
need big soft light - which can be accomplished by shining your small
hard light through something translucent ... like white muslin or dacron
... or a photo umbrella.

Move the light back and the translucent material close to whatever
you're photographing to make your light source big. You could have moved
that bed sheet down until it was hanging just out of the frame.

Often you can better accomplish the job by reflecting the light off
something big and white onto the metallic surface. A 32" x 40" matte
board works well for smaller objects. Move that bed sheet aside slightly
so one of the lights reflects off that board you had in the front and
onto the sculpture.

You don't need expensive equipment, you can make it yourself.

      http://www.software-cinema.com/page/tinkertubes

For hot lights, a couple of clamp-on 100 watt fixtures with 75 watt PAR
bulbs from Home Depot (about a $5 investment) would have given plenty of
light, even with the diffusers.

Getting the white-balance right in the camera saves a lot of time in
photoshop, and you don't have to worry about shifts from tweaking the
saturation.

For a background, you can get seamless roll backing paper fairly cheap,
53" x 12 yd for $20.

But, I think you did a good job given the limitations you were working
with. There's ways you could have made it easier on yourself, especially
reducing the post-production in Photoshop, but they look pretty damn good.

Not bad, hey at least as good as some of my current efforts.   But,
here is a point, shed the wallpaper on your website.  Its very
distracting and takes away from the photo... particularly those of us
with wide screen monitors. 75% of the screen real estate is taken up
with the background.  Background for photo sites shoule be plain and
neutral.