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e6filmuser wrote:
What you need is a black tent for your camera, or some other way of keeping light off it.
I googled "black tent camera" and nothing obvious comes up. I am assuming an example of what you would be talking about would be a black sheet covering everything except the lens. Right?
I am having a hard time understanding how that would actually work as there needs to be a direct path from the lens to the watch dial/face and that is exactly what is getting reflected.
e6filmuser wrote:
Reflections off glass may be cutout by a polarizer but the ones off metal probably will not.
I bought a polarizer thinking/hoping this would solve the problem. Unfortunately it seems to do exactly nothing for this situation. In fact there is a polarizer on the lense that this pic was taken with. There are other situations where it works. I can tell when I rotate it if it is properly rotated rotated it does work on other things. I don't really understand why it works in some cases and not others, but I do know that for the most part with watch dials/faces etc pics the polarizer is mostly useless and in this case when trying to get a direct straight on pic it is 100% useless.
e6filmuser wrote:
Professionals who photograph screens with highly-polished metal in them (e.g on fire engines) spray the metal with an aerosol of fine, oily mist. I don't know the details. That suppresses the shine.
Interesting idea. I might look into that. Not sure I want to cover an expensive watch with oily mist, but maybe...
e6filmuser wrote:
Essentially, starting macro with metallic and glass objects was far from ideal.
Yes, I would agree you are probably right. I like watches though and I am having fun learning.
Thanks for the ideas
Here are a couple that I liked. If you have suggestions to make them better, I am all ears
This one I managed to avoid the reflection, but I really have no idea why.....
This one has some reflections and I am not sure I like the depth of field focus, but it isn't totally terrible.
This one I like. This is an old elgin pocket watch that I bought off e-bay. All the interesting patterns on the movement is called damaskeening.
Here is another one that I like. It is a super close up of another old pocket watch movement. You are looking at an area here that is probably no more than 1/4" square or so.
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