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Dear fellow purists, 

J/k: that’s an awesome watch, and you ask a very important question. I’ll eagerly be awaiting the response of the real experts.

Yeah, I might have to start stacking multiple pictures...

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I'll give it a try.
After zoom out and stack them into one picture might work...

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Having the flash bounce from more angles? Sounds like an idea! thank you.

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But if I want the anglage the come out better in this shot, it would be possible as well?

Btw.: I‘d photoshop movement/case/limitation numbers out of a picture before posting it online. But maybe I‘m just too cautious

I've read that before, why would it be smart to photoshop those numbers out? I never really understood it.

At least the case number is only known by the owner and Grönefeld. In this case also the fact which limitation number is connected to which case number. If someone uses censored pictures for some form of fraud, it will be just any one Remontoire. If they got the exact case and limitation number, YOUR watch will be part of the fraud. As I said, I might be too cautious. However the work of censoring these numbers is very easy and short compared to the risks, Imho.

Thanks for your explanation.

I like the photo too.

I used F20 because I wanted everything in focus and sharp. Which F Stop would you suggest?

But I would have to say that in my macro the depth of field is so small that I try to get the sweet spot around f8 and place my trust on my dependable Photoshop to do the stacking.
Also, I take lots of photos and occasionally I get the one that was on my mind.
This exhausts all my knowledge about photography.
That Grönefeld is magnificent. Congratulations.

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Kidding my friend, your photo skills are amazing imho . Its perfect for me 🤗. I leave these questions to the real experts here

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if I could take photos like you. The fact that my Nokia has a 0.2 megapixel camera does not help either! 

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Improve? There is nothing to improve.

In my view it’s an incredibly good picture.

If anything at all you might consider 1 stop plus on ISO

By the way, the subject of the photo is also superb

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To come back to your question about how to improve  your photo, here after a few ideas...

1.  Settings at F/20 and 100 ISO are perfect for DOF and definition

2.  Definitely a perfectly crisp focused photo improves the result. Photo stacking is a good option. There are good specific softwares for managing this issue (Helicon Focus...) but Photoshop works well for that also

3.  As always in photography, light is key and specially in macro photo. If you want anglage details to pop a bit more, you have to move your flash in different locations so that the light comes out better on anglage details without having a light relection on the glass case back. Obviously it is much easier to do with a studio flash (Profoto, Elinchrom, or Godox) which is using a pilot lamp than with a cobra flash but a cobra flash works well also by test and learn

4. For improving the result photo editing is nowadays very easy where you can increase or decrease so many parameters. Lightroom and Photoshop are the most common ones but there are many others including some free softwares

5. Of course equipment also plays a role: using a Leica D-Lux or a good reflex camera with professional lenses will give better results than a simple compact camera of course but I assume this is not the issue here as skills and techniques are sometimes more important than the equipment if you know how to use it

Point 3 and 4 are probably the ones that will be easy and effective for a quick and easy result I would say.

Do not hesitate to send me a PM on some particular points if you wish.

Mike

Thank you Mike, I shot this picture with my Canon 80D and a Canon EF 100mm Macro lens.
I checked out Helicon Focus, which I was not familiar with, and it looks easy for stacking. I'll get right back at it tonight and will contact you if I run into any problems.

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