No solution I could figure out hence I waited for few watches to unwind or stop. Watch hand movement solution: Pictures for couple of watches which has hand movements was not possible to be focus stacked hence this was one issue as I stated above. With moving subjects it is not possible to my knowledge to focus stacking.As I had the exposure set properly & needed more details I went with PMax (pyramid) stacking method in Zerene Stack. I tried Helicon Focus & Zerene Stack both are really good but Zerene Stack has a 30days free trial without any restrictions. To my surprise stack focusing gave great results. I was planning to use stack focusing so as to get rid of the DOF issue. Depth of field (DOF) solution: I took pictures with focus on multiple points on the watch.White dials had dirty dials even pretty much expected for a 20$ mechanical made in India by a government firm. Watch parts issues: Stainless steel frames had a lots of scratches even for the new ones also inside the dials and hands had dust specks.Watch parts lighting issues: It was hard to compose the watch such that I get definition of all the parts like glass, dial, hands, crown, frame, strap & hook.Will come to this point as to why this was an issue. Watch hand movement issue: As this was a mechanical wound watch either I had to wait till the watch unwinds to prevent the hand movements but couple of them wound for running up 2 days.Depth of field (DOF) issue: No matter even if I choose f11/f16 the DOF was very shallow given that I am shooting a subject 15-30cms near.Still pending on uploading the focus stacked images.

There were lot of challenges doing macro for a subject, which was few manual hand winding mechanical wrist watches.įind the results here, here & here. Had a chance to try out the 100mm macro lens borrowed from one of my friend the other last day.

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