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21 September 2020, 10:22 PM | #31 |
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Really great pics of great watches!
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21 September 2020, 10:31 PM | #32 |
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Great post, we need more of these.
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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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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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My first macro tests
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Beautiful pics. At that age I'm surprised they can still get wet.
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21 September 2020, 11:32 PM | #37 |
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My first macro tests
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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!
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21 September 2020, 11:54 PM | #39 |
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Stunning pics - thanks for sharing
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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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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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Great pictures. Love the water shot. Thanks for sharing.
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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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The Real Estate shots show depth making the space look larger. Good work.
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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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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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Light reflections from the crystal are not easy to handle, outside a lightbox or a studio with lamps |
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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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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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22 September 2020, 12:34 AM | #50 |
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Thanks.
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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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x2!
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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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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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I've been doing exactly this in 2020...
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The 14060 is super hot
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Nice watches.
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5-digit Rolex porn (X-rated)
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