By-Tor

Excellent choice. The best version without a doubt.

Typical for the rep factories. It's not Paul's fault, it's just the same old blues. Now the old rep of Avenger is the watch to get. And now that you mentioned it...the pearl looks like utter shite in that model. Look at watcher71's Avenger (below)...much better. Also notice how the dial is different too. Hour markers are thicker like in the genuine but "10" gets a nasty cut in Paul's watch (not a big deal though). Pauls: Genuine: Watcher71's rep:

You're welcome Randy. Keep practising the PhotoShop, it's a magnificient tool.

Congrats CC...fantastic choice. All you guys buying these Bentleys makes me REALLY want one. Apparently it's the hottest watch on RWG right now.

That black/orange PO is really good looking watch. Strange to see the rep before the real model is even out.

Beauty!!! PS: Now align that bezel correctly and it'll be almost perfect.

Hi again Simo. Check these areas if you find anything helpful: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showforum=76 http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showforum=75

True, raw "sharpen" increases the noise but using the unsharp mask (in lowest effective setting 0.2) works as a "soft" alternative... after setting the autolevels. It also helps to bring up the white text "edges" on black dial for example. It depends on the picture but it usually improves the visual quality although it lessens the resolution. Another factor to "noisiness" is that people save over compressed picture format (i.e JPG) over and over again... For most images there is _always_ some degradation from a lossless format like PNG or BMP to JPG, no matter how high you set the quality. But in practice, at the highest setting the degradation is not visible, if you only do it once (and use highest (10) quality). JPEG is mostly a problem when you open and save, open and save, etc., repeatedly. Much bigger factor than increasing picture sharpness once.

Yes, definitely getting better. The red tone appears because you probably have set your camera to "sunlight" or "auto". Try setting it to "fluorescent light" or whatever option you have in your camera. Photoshop can also help. Again the saturation have been reduced from both of these pics. Added black from selective color -> black and reduced red and magenta from white. Also sharpening the pics just a bit helps <Filter -> sharpen -> unsharp mask (0.2)> but it's a taste thing. Darker: Medium: Artsy flashlight:

Yeah, I also found out that Hublot has "borrowed" the design of Big Bang from AP. Can't say anything about the details, I've never seen the genuines. but this gold version is still very attractive looking watch. Neil talked about the bezel screws. Do they bother you because they're tightened to "asymmetrical" positions? In AP they're symmetrical: But in Ebel they bezel screws are again asymmetrical. Wonder why the manufacturers do this? I don't think it's "sloppy finishing" in the watches of this price category... but the purpose is probably to give some kind of "artsy" impression?

Just increase saturation if you want to keep the "reddish" tone of the original picture. I prefer more black and white approach. You can also tweak the tones from "color balance".

I changed the bezel to red/blue yesterday. Then I snapped a new "studio" pic. Hope you like it.

Start from here: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showforum=75

Your photography is stunning. Now you just need to give them a "finishing touch".

Beautiful Heuer. Just beautiful...I love it.

I'd like to point out that hockey fights aren't "violence". Fights belong to hockey (it's a contact sport) and they're usually 2 big guys having a fair fight against eachother. I played a bit in junior leagues and had a few fights. Guys usually shake hands after a match, it's just a nature of the game... and entertainment for the audience. And I've seen lots of people talking "how horrible the fights are". But when the fight starts I've never seen them leaving their seat for hot dogs. Cheapshots like tackling from behind and hits against the head area are different. Fighters and enforcers used to take care that these stunts didn't happen. Now when the amount of fights (and enforcers) have been reduced we see a LOT more serious injuries caused by the cheapshots. As a parent I'd be much more worried about violence in mainstream movies, like Pulp Fiction, where sadism, perversions and torture is considered "artsy"... and even funny.

Depends on the watch though.

If that happened in a hockey game we could have seen a good, old fashioned brawl and mayhem. Sometimes I feel football is for sissies.

Eddy, I love that PO.

I feel sorry for Trezeguet and I hope people won't lynch him. He deserved more from this tournament, I never understood why Domenech benched him.

Wonder what Materazzi said to him. That headbutt came out of clear blue sky...totally unexcepted. France (and Z) were my favourites but since I have Italian family members (through my brother's Italian wife) I guess I have to be happy for them.

Thanks guys. I was bored and added some wrist shots to the initial post (all familiar from the wrist check threads, lol).

Wow, it's a beauty and the beast in the same watch!!! This watch seems to be the "hot topic" here these days... and for good reason. It looks like million dollars. Wear it well my friend.

Ooops... I accidentally posted it to "General Discussion". Please move to offtopic forum. Thankx.