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Very nice photos indeed!
I can appreciate how much effort you must have put into this endeavor.... I've been sorting through various threads trying to figure out how to raise the quality of my photos.
Would you be willing to elaborate on your method and equipment used?
I particularly like the great looking amphibian tonneau. Is it a 300m version with the wide lugs? It's certainly in marvelous condition,... Much better than the fare I see to choose from on eBay.
I can appreciate how much effort you must have put into this endeavor.... I've been sorting through various threads trying to figure out how to raise the quality of my photos.
Would you be willing to elaborate on your method and equipment used?
I particularly like the great looking amphibian tonneau. Is it a 300m version with the wide lugs? It's certainly in marvelous condition,... Much better than the fare I see to choose from on eBay.
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Amphibian tonneau is regular 200m, just few rapairing work was done, partly by myself and some by my watchmaker. Case polished, glass changed, oiled and cleaned.
I was shooting on Nikon D80, with Kit lenses 18-135. Photos were taken with the tripod, with the lowest ISO as possible - ISO 100. I was using diffused light of a Philips Energy Saver lamp "New Softone 6yr" 20W, but of course with WB correction. Multiple plain white paper sheets were used as a light diffusers, and some mirrors were used also. As you can notice there are some round mirrors on the shots, guest what is it? They are discs from an old HDD, that was disassemble for parts such as two strong magnets and those discs. Longines and Maurice Lacroix catalogues were chosen as a background for their colours/ ornamental pattern and texture, and the way the bokeh looks.
I used Picasa 3 from Google as a software for processing images. There are no complex manipulations with them, just cropping and making collage - that's it!
Raketa with brown dial is not NOS, I was inspired by Phils photos from netgrafik and was searching all web for 3 days for this particular model. Of course they went through some restoration process, such as glass, hands and winder replacement. They were as well fully serviced.
Thank you for your comments, I really appreciate it!
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I was shooting on Nikon D80, with Kit lenses 18-135. Photos were taken with the tripod, with the lowest ISO as possible - ISO 100. I was using diffused light of a Philips Energy Saver lamp "New Softone 6yr" 20W, but of course with WB correction. Multiple plain white paper sheets were used as a light diffusers, and some mirrors were used also. As you can notice there are some round mirrors on the shots, guest what is it? They are discs from an old HDD, that was disassemble for parts such as two strong magnets and those discs. Longines and Maurice Lacroix catalogues were chosen as a background for their colours/ ornamental pattern and texture, and the way the bokeh looks.
I used Picasa 3 from Google as a software for processing images. There are no complex manipulations with them, just cropping and making collage - that's it!
Raketa with brown dial is not NOS, I was inspired by Phils photos from netgrafik and was searching all web for 3 days for this particular model. Of course they went through some restoration process, such as glass, hands and winder replacement. They were as well fully serviced.
Thank you for your comments, I really appreciate it!
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Yes, thanks for posting, those images are a pleasure to look at! |> I'm another fan Phil's watch photography, his outdoor stuff is pretty awesome too.
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Just one short add - here is the part of the video that I've croped from the NIKON-Guide-to-Creative-Lighting, there are some good advise how to shoot macro 
My improvised studio looked similar, but i used regular bulb instead of a Nikon Speedlight
so, here is it:
My improvised studio looked similar, but i used regular bulb instead of a Nikon Speedlight
so, here is it:
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