Some APROO secs at 12 pics

[ajoesmith]

Before reading members advice a few days ago on taking pics, my pics looked like this

Crap i know, not bad but crap compared to other peoples pics of their watches

So enabled with my point and shoot piece of crap casio exilim, dont buy one as a point and shoot i think they are rubbish, i went to the coffee table near the living window where there was lots of light. I set the camera to auto focus, not macro, set it to the lowest ISO setting which was 50 on my camera. I have a very small tripod, i paid $2 for it so you can imagine how small it is, set the camera on the tripod, set the 2 sec timer and shot 3 pics of my APROO secs at 12.

I then downloaded google Picasa

Using Picasa tools, auto contrast, sharpen, highlight, shadows and fill light my pics have now turned out like this. Excuse the dust, i forgot to clean the watch

Now all along i thought it was my camera as i built a light box and everything.

Me thinks not bad...

Edited January 6, 2009 by ajoesmith

[Shundi]

Wow! What a change! I agree...if you look at the review I posted to day there's a marked difference in photos where I used diffuse natural light (it was a cloudy day) and indoor lighting.

[mwee]

Nice! So you use a point and shoot camera for this? Great as mine is one too and unlikely to change.

[ajoesmith]

Yes a point and shot casio, dont recommend it as a usual camera. It is nowhere new as good a a fujifilm i had before

[mikellem]

Big improvement Joe!

Your skills have really improved...

Thanks,

MM

[mikolee]

thats a good looking watch i have the safari coming but that looks awesome!

[siesta181]

Lovely avatar.... Ooopppsss..... I mean pictures.

[chubbchubb]

A great improvement and it only proves that while generally the quality of your equiment does matter - even more decisive for good results is knowledge, care and training.