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Old 21 September 2020, 10:22 PM   #31
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Old 21 September 2020, 10:31 PM   #32
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Old 21 September 2020, 10:57 PM   #33
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They are my favorite! But like all things Rolex, they are going up in price and I’m being pushed out of this market as well. Such is life and I will enjoy what I have.
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Old 21 September 2020, 11:28 PM   #34
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High-resolution and high-quality photos, thanks for sharing.

I like your assemblies very much: Yachtmaster + sailing boats and Explorer II + mountain climbers.

The second macro photo is great, the granularity of the dial gives the impression of a fine-grained snow surface.

What photo equipment you are using, especially which camera, lens, macro?
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Old 21 September 2020, 11:31 PM   #35
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My first macro tests

Submariner (1966) Ref. 5513 meters first (1/2)
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Old 21 September 2020, 11:31 PM   #36
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Beautiful pics. At that age I'm surprised they can still get wet.
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Old 21 September 2020, 11:32 PM   #37
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My first macro tests

Submariner (1966) Ref. 5513 meters first (2/2)
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Old 21 September 2020, 11:44 PM   #38
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High-resolution and high-quality photos, thanks for sharing.

I like your assemblies very much: Yachtmaster + sailing boats and Explorer II + mountain climbers.

The second macro photo is great, the granularity of the dial gives the impression of a fine-grained snow surface.

What photo equipment you are using, especially which camera, lens, macro?
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Nikon DX80 and AFS Nikkor 18-200 zoom objective.

Lightbox, 5 lamps and sometimes I use white paper sheets to find perfect diffused lighting.

It's all about lighting... camera doesn't mean much.

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Old 21 September 2020, 11:54 PM   #39
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:04 AM   #40
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Nikon DX80 and AFS Nikkor 18-200 zoom objective.

Lightbox, 5 lamps and sometimes I use white paper sheets to find perfect diffused lighting.

It's all about lighting... camera doesn't mean much.

Cheers!
Thanks. I'm using a camera for underwater photography, an Olympus TG-5 with a build-in macro and interesting features light focus stacking etc., it's not a high-tech divers' device but it makes very good pics of small underwater creatures, also w/o macro. Underwater photography is not comparable with "artificial" lightbox photography, just a different world, but I have the camera ...

I have a lightbox too and see that illumination is key for watch photos. Sometime I prefer sun light, which is also very nice but not always sufficient if the lens is very close to the crystal. I assume you shoot raw format?

Outside the ocean ("on land") I'm not an experienced photographer, own an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and consider to buy the M. ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm F2.8 MACRO. Do you know and can you recommend that macro?

Interesting and well-made blog, I will read … Cheers
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:11 AM   #41
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Thanks. I'm using a camera for underwater photography, an Olympus TG-5 with a build-in macro, not a high-tech device but it makes very good pics of small underwater creatures.

I have a light box too and see that illumination is key for watch photos. Sometime I prefer sun light, which is also very nice but not always sufficient if the lens is very close to the crystal. I assume you shoot raw format?

I'm not an experienced photographer, own an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and consider to buy the M. ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm F2.8 MACRO. Do you know and can you recommend that macro?

Interesting and well-made blog, I will read … Cheers
I've been a professional photographer for a long time but I photograph real estate. To be exact I'm a real estate agent... and I photoshoot all my own sales objects only. I have a few different objectives for cameras but I've always sucked with the tech talk. I have my own settings for everything... that I've found with trial and error and that's it. I don't know much about camers to be honest... I've had my Nikon for over 10 years and I've just become familiar with it.

When you shoot real estate it's completely different photography... and the main difference is just the objective used. But it's all about lighting too. I've shot raw and standard... don't see much difference there. :)

Some of my later real estate shots.







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Old 22 September 2020, 12:16 AM   #42
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Great pictures. Love the water shot. Thanks for sharing.


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Old 22 September 2020, 12:18 AM   #43
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Thanks Juho, much appreciated, conclusion for me: it's all about lighting!
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:18 AM   #44
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The Real Estate shots show depth making the space look larger. Good work.


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Old 22 September 2020, 12:20 AM   #45
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Thanks, much appreciated, conclusion for me: it's all about lighting!
Exactly. For example I shot this with a $150 Canon PowerShot A520 back in the day.

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Old 22 September 2020, 12:22 AM   #46
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The Real Estate shots show depth making the space look larger. Good work.
Thanks man. It's a certain camera objective for that purpose only... which has the ability to shoot very wide areas. That objective is quite useless for standard photography though... like photographing watches for example.
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:25 AM   #47
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Nice photo the Omega Seamaster; how do you shoot if you have not ideal or even top lighting conditions, like in an perfectly illuminated room/studio or inside a lightbox?
For example a watch outside in the sun?
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:29 AM   #48
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Light reflections from the crystal are not easy to handle, outside a lightbox or a studio with lamps
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:30 AM   #49
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[QUOTE=bmb15;10932554][QUOTE Exactly. For example I shot this with a $150 Canon PowerShot A520 back in the day.
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Nice photo; how do you shoot if you have not ideal or even top lighting conditions, like in an perfectly illuminated room/studio or inside a lightbox?
For example a watch outside in the sun?
I don't shoot watches at all if I don't have ideal conditions. For outside wrist shots I just use my phone and the post-process them in the Photoshop.

Today's phones take surpringly good pictures. Just correct the colors in the post-processing and that's it. The biggest obstacle with the phone (with watch shots) is always to keep the hand very steady haha.
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:34 AM   #50
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:34 AM   #51
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I don't shoot watches at all if I don't have ideal conditions.
ok, that's another key info for me.

Today's phones take surpringly good pictures.
yes, but not good enough to make high-resolution macros, at least that's my experience with an iPhone, even if I put a macro or another lens in front of the phone lens
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:35 AM   #52
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ok ok

Today's phones take surpringly good pictures.
yes, but not good enough to make high-resolution macros, at least that's my experience with an iPhone
Yes. True.

Macro shots aren't very interesting to me though. Yes they show the details but I just want to make all my shots looking "commercial".

Some guys want to take "artsy" photos but I just want to make them technically as good as possible (eliminate noise, reflections, etc).
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:40 AM   #54
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The good old days. Happy to have at least one 5 digit(Sub LV) in my small collection.
Those were the times before all this 'hype'. Thanks for pics OP.
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:43 AM   #55
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Yes. True.

Macro shots aren't very interesting to me though. Yes they show the details but I just want to make all my shots looking "commercial".


Very good argument and I hear you. That's exactly what I'm not looking for, commercial or advertising photos.

Some guys want to take "artsy" photos but I just want to make them technically as good as possible (eliminate noise, reflections, etc).
Hear you, I want to make high-quality/resolution photos (no artsy) of them under "real life conditions", also during diving. It looks that outside perfect lighting conditions watch photography seems more complicated than wished. In my opinion, light reflections and missing smartphone resolution make these pictures not easy to take. Many thanks for sharing your experience!
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:52 AM   #56
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I've been doing exactly this in 2020...
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Old 22 September 2020, 12:54 AM   #57
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I've been doing exactly this in 2020...
What exactly?
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Old 22 September 2020, 01:10 AM   #58
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Old 22 September 2020, 01:19 AM   #59
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Old 22 September 2020, 03:23 AM   #60
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... not sure, but it probably needs a service.
In my view you are certainly in the wrong forum with such a photo!
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