Fricks Cream of the Crop is, in fact, a title  More info | Jun 16, 2011 22:27 | #346 JPepus wrote in post #12607286  Nice Jake. The shadows even though sharp created a pretty cool effect. Take it you are diggin the AB800?  They are so great ive had it for about 5 hours and i want to sell my 430II for another one
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brippeon Member 162 posts Likes: 2 Joined Aug 2009 Location: York, Pa More info | Just took a quick photo of one of my Invictas this is my favorite. Love the skeleton. Added a little bit of PP 
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Dimer Senior Member  381 posts Likes: 12 Joined Oct 2009 Location: Amsterdam More info | Jun 17, 2011 04:26 | #348  (DUPLICATE IMAGE)    Canon 7D gripped | Canon 5Dc | Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 | EF 50 F1.8 II | EF 24-70 F2.8 USM L | EF 70-200 F2.8 USM L | Westcott Ice Light | Speedlite 430 EX II | Elinchrom BxRi 2x250 + accessories |
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Jun 17, 2011 09:01 | #349 brippeon wrote in post #12607618 Just took a quick photo of one of my Invictas this is my favorite. Love the skeleton. Added a little bit of PP
LOVE this watch! If I had this (and actually wore it) I would prefer the hands being black though to make the contrast better so it would be a little easier to read the time. lol
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brippeon Member 162 posts Likes: 2 Joined Aug 2009 Location: York, Pa More info | Jun 17, 2011 10:20 | #350 JPepus wrote in post #12609239 LOVE this watch! If I had this (and actually wore it) I would prefer the hands being black though to make the contrast better so it would be a little easier to read the time. lol You can actually see them pretty well when looking at the face, they also have tritnite on the ends which make it look awesome at night. : )
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Jun 17, 2011 10:44 | #351 brippeon wrote in post #12609695 You can actually see them pretty well when looking at the face, they also have tritnite on the ends which make it look awesome at night. : ) In that case...I WANT!
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As promised earlier, here are some of my published images of the HM4 Panda "Podracer".  An extreme close up of the white gold Panda sitting on the watch holding the lead. This image is much harder to photograph than it appears. Even at f16 the depth of field is not deep due to close focussing distance. Controlling the reflections from having burnt out highlights was awesomely difficult. I did not want an overly diffused light as it would flatten the image and fail to give it the 3D effect as well as texture.  In this image I wanted to capture and show off the Panda and its steel lead that is connected by a clever set of catches. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com …SVxuZ4A/_MG_2451Aweb1.jpg Managed to get the CEO of MB&F to do model the watch for me here. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com …800/MaxBusser0001Aweb.jpg Finally, this image - looks deceptively simple but was the hardest to obtain. As the watch is three dimensional in that for a watch, it had a lot of height, breadth and length, it was a challenge to capture the panda in focus without having the rest of the watch being blurred or poorly lighted. I needed to use layers and create a composite. Much like focus stacking but more painstaking as each layer was carefully adjusted and balanced in terms of tone and lighting.  CANONISED (aka Horolographer)
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Fricks Cream of the Crop is, in fact, a title More info | Jun 17, 2011 12:27 | #353 @Canonised
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brippeon Member 162 posts Likes: 2 Joined Aug 2009 Location: York, Pa More info | Jun 17, 2011 13:21 | #354 Fricks wrote in post #12610255 @Canonised What do you place the watch on to shoot it? Im still trying to figure that out because when ever i do it you can still see the paper or what ever in the picture. Is it some also some photoshopping ? It appears to be a black backrop cloth if you dont have any back drops any sort of solid colored fabric can work. I placed mine on a pillow.
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SuperHuman21 Goldmember  2,219 posts Joined Jan 2010 Location: Charlotte, NC More info | Jun 17, 2011 16:45 | #355 Fricks wrote in post #12610255 @Canonised What do you place the watch on to shoot it? Im still trying to figure that out because when ever i do it you can still see the paper or what ever in the picture. Is it some also some photoshopping ? You can raise your watch onto a piece of glass or anything clear. Playing around with a frosted surface may work as well. The amount of things to experiment with is amazing. For instance, you can put anything black around the watch to play with the shadows of the watch and how far away you put it helps shape these shadows. D90, 105mm f/2.8, 18-105mm DX, D-Lite 2 it (3), 32" Photoflex softbox (2), Manfrotto 3021BN w/3047 head
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Jun 18, 2011 09:26 | #356 Fricks wrote in post #12610255 @Canonised What do you place the watch on to shoot it? Im still trying to figure that out because when ever i do it you can still see the paper or what ever in the picture. Is it some also some photoshopping ? I use all kinds of home made gizmos and props. The idea as mentioned by others is to lift the subject off the table by a few cms and let the macro lens do all the work to change the background to blurred bokeh in black. Adapted wire hangers, plastic stands etc. Most of the time I do not need to photoshop because I fashion them in black. But if I had to do it, clone stamping does the trick. CANONISED (aka Horolographer)
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Fricks Cream of the Crop is, in fact, a title More info | Jun 18, 2011 09:27 | #357 Canonised wrote in post #12614954 I use all kinds of home made gizmos and props. The idea as mentioned by others is to lift the subject off the table by a few cms and let the macro lens do all the work to change the background to blurred bokeh in black. Adapted wire hangers, plastic stands etc. Most of the time I do not need to photoshop because I fashion them in black. But if I had to do it, clone stamping does the trick. Ok thanks
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alquimista Cream of the Crop  More info | Jun 18, 2011 12:35 | #358 what a wonderful collection of watches and great photographs, thank you Canonised for starting this tread and sharing your knowledge and experiences. I have never photograph watches before so I'm going to use these for my photo shoot,    btw the Tags have that anti-reflective coating, it comes out blue on the pics I took today; any advice for getting rid of this? thanks la costura de Dios
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lukits01 Junior Member 29 posts Joined Nov 2010 More info | Jun 20, 2011 03:04 | #359 Which IWC are these, Dimer? |CANON 550D Rebel T2i|35mm f1.4L|17-40mm f4L|24-105mm f4L|100mm f2.8L Macro|100-400mm f4.5-5.6L|
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Jun 20, 2011 05:24 | #360 alquimista wrote in post #12615623 what a wonderful collection of watches and great photographs, thank you Canonised for starting this tread and sharing your knowledge and experiences. I have never photograph watches before so I'm going to use these for my photo shoot, btw the Tags have that anti-reflective coating, it comes out blue on the pics I took today; any advice for getting rid of this? thanks Check out this link from Dimer who posts here did a nice tutorial worth looking to resolve the blue AR coating - https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=877729 CANONISED (aka Horolographer)
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