New answers tagged

3 votes
Accepted

Converting .CR2 raws to non-raw image format with ImageMagick mogrify makes images warm

You're never seeing "THE raw image" on your screen. What you're seeing is a conversion of the raw data into a demosaiced color image with white point, black point, white balance, contrast ...
Michael C's user avatar
  • 174k
1 vote

Can software auto-detect image focus?

I have a similar problem. I take pictures of the moon, and I need to choose the sharpest ones for stacking. As the images are very similar to each other, it is easy to compare. I was shooting with a ...
Wilhan Botelho's user avatar
6 votes

What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?

When your photograph looks like it has a grey tone, or seems like you're looking at it through a fog, it means that very few of the pixels have the darkest values. In your photograph, 99% of the ...
Mark H's user avatar
  • 301
8 votes

What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?

I think that rather than starting from the post-processing, you should consider another lighting approach. If you look at the images you posted as examples of what you want to achieve, they all have a ...
Gurdulù's user avatar
7 votes

What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?

Move your lights lower relative to the cone, or move them farther away. The two options will have different effects... to understand them it is easier to think of it in terms of creating the ...
Steven Kersting's user avatar
1 vote

How to avoid reflection in watch photos?

When you light a reflective subject I find it better to think entirely in terms of creating the environment the object will reflect, rather than in terms of "lighting." And when you think in ...
Steven Kersting's user avatar
9 votes

What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?

You might be surprised by how good the simple 'Auto Tone' command is in Photoshop [Image menu]. It's always worth giving it a go before getting into any more detail. Sometimes it just gets it right ...
Tetsujin's user avatar
  • 23.1k
23 votes
Accepted

What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?

To me, it is just that you dial is over-exposed, easy to fix with the Curves tool of your editor: In other cases, just using the contrast tool could be easier, but here this would blow out the ...
xenoid's user avatar
  • 20.2k
1 vote
Accepted

How to avoid reflection in watch photos?

The Rolex photo was not taken with a cone. You can see that because of the gradients of the reflections which show some rectangular zones. But leaving that apart, you can put some pillar below the ...
Rafael's user avatar
  • 23.1k

Top 50 recent answers are included