Longines 30L manual wind caliber
Here's a pic of my 1966 Longines 9800-1 watch caliber, enjoy the detail.
Here's a pic of my 1966 Longines 9800-1 watch caliber, enjoy the detail.
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I remember I took this photo while I was home, on my dining table, I felt inspired so I had to immediately take my camera, something was swirling around in my head!Time
It was around 5pm when I took this, I had just returned home from university and I was pretty tired to be honest, this because that was one of those typical winter days in northern Italy: cold, foggy and quiet.Lighting
The light was low, the sun goes down early in winter around 4.30pm, but this couldn't stop me, so I took my bed lamp, cut some greaseproof paper to lower the light released by the bulb. I then cut a hole on the face of a white box to the size of the lamp to create a hand made light soft box, as the natural light was really not enough.Equipment
I used a Nikon D3100 and a Nikkor 18-55mm, to capture the detail I used a reverse mount ring.Inspiration
Photography is not my only passion, I'm a wristwatch maniac too. I chose my '66 Longines, my oldest wristwatch to show its beautifully designed caliber, still keeping great time after 50 years. I'm just 23 years old, but I'm a young man loving vintage watches and objects because of the simple, sturdy but beautiful appearance. Many of the guys and girls of my generation are used to buy things powered by battery, so I thought: let's show people how good is staring at that little golden wheel rotating back and forth producing that lovely ticking that most of them never heard, I love that, it's relaxing and makes you think that your object is alive compared to nowadays things that people just buy and throw away.Editing
This photo in particular required just few adjustments, I usually prefer my photos to look as genuine as possible, faithfully representing what my eye sees in that moment, so I just manually regulated contrast, highlights and shadows, tones and worked on the sharpness.In my camera bag
I usually bring with me my Nikon D3100, my basic Nikon 18-55mm, my only tele-lens Nikon 55-200mm, and my old but faithful Helios 58mm f/2.0 that obviously needs an adapter to work on my DSLR camera. I actually shoot on film too, so I often bring my Zenith 12XP with me and my not so common (Nowadays) 1958 Minox B carrying its famous tiny 8x11mm film. I always bring my Manfrotto tripod with me, and my filters, such as my sigma cpl polarizing filter and my UV and skylight filters.Feedback
In photos like the one you see here, light is for sure the most important factor, when you have to take a close picture you need a firm hand and a good amount of light. In my case the object was inanimated, so its easy to take a firm photo, maybe using your tripod. In this case, if the object has some moving parts, you will get a nice and creative result if you shoot setting your camera to a slightly long exposure time. Last but not least, always remember (When objects are inanimated) to take your time to focus on the object, so you'll be sure the details will be sharp, and if the object is particularly small, be sure you focus on the zone you want to put in evidence.
