c65 IWC Lepine Pocketwatch

Spent some time experimenting with image stacking photography and the software
to render the photo. Still have some work to do, but it's getting there.

Balance whell cropped from above.

Thanks Bill,

for sharing your nice cal.65 and the stacking photo.

Focus stacking is indeed a new dimension of quality and size.
I have checked some tools and my final choose was AFFINITY. As good as
Photoshop but less expensive and the stacking procedure is easier to handle.

So, a manual Cal. 67 Stack with an CONTAX vintage lens and an adapted achromat
on a 42 MP Sony A7RII.

The web version and the full size for download.

Hope, to see much more stacking photos of your nice wathes.

Regards

Heiko

Link to full size image:

derjonk.de/lizard/c67-stack.jpg

Wow!!!

Hmmmm,

I do not fully understand, why it is necessary to get a sharpness from the
bottom to the front. The pictures get for me a "rendered" aspect.

Actually it is a big trend to bring in picture workup to the photography. (not
just for watches)

When I need a bigger depth of focus I use the necessary lens and light and
aperture and and and.... This is the fun of taking pictures.

Unsharpness is a part of life and the physics, So I play with it

Here a picture, taken in one shot and not worked up, not yet fully what I
wanted...

But also algorithms can make fun I know.... (I live from them ....)

regards

Ralph

Stacking, even with watches, is simply curiosity to try something new.

Editing watches with stacking photos is not very important to me, because they
don't run or fly away. It is much more difficult with animals. This is just a
double stack and the dragonfly has moved. But, the macro is much better than a
single photo.

Regards

Heiko

Fantastic photographs gentlemen :o)

Thanks Mark,

due to not overboarding activities, why not some interesting modern OT aspects
?!

Greetings

Heiko

Cellphone pic