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 Posted: Thu Mar 1st, 2007 10:13 pm
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RallyPunx
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How do you guys do those wonderful lume photos in the dark?? I bought a new watch yesterday and would like to share some of the pictures with you guys, but I can't seem to get those dark pictures right. I will greatly appreciate your assistance. Thanx,

Ivan

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 Posted: Thu Mar 1st, 2007 10:31 pm
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Ivan... its not easy... well, hasnt been for me anyway.  One person told me trick was to quick charge the lume, go into a room with  a little light (not completely dark) and of course no flash (duh, I coulda figured that one myself).  Still practicing... this was first one I tried... I shot it with the low light setting, so watch and background still showed, but lume still glowed...  good luck and look forward to seeing some... hand6.gif
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How do you guys do those wonderful lume photos in the dark?? I bought a new watch yesterday and would like to share some of the pictures with you guys, but I can't seem to get those dark pictures right. I will greatly appreciate your assistance. Thanx,

Ivan

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I took these myself - used a mini tripod and the camera on "timer" so my hands wouldn't affect the camera (depressed the shutter and got my hands outta there). Charged the watch; went into low light room; snapped a bunch and messed with the "iso" settings. I'm not a camera guy, but there are a bunch here, so you'll get some asisstance. I just tooled around till it looked good!

Good Luck!

Marc




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After seeing this I thought I'd give it a try, I started off by letting them soak in the sun for a few minutes, then ran to a room in my house with no windows, setup the camera on macro mode/no flash/etc.. and here's what I got. 



Not too bad for my 1st try... I'd like to get rid of the "grainy" look to it..

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Hey Josh... alot better than my first attempts at it...  hand6.gif
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After seeing this I thought I'd give it a try, I started off by letting them soak in the sun for a few minutes, then ran to a room in my house with no windows, setup the camera on macro mode/no flash/etc.. and here's what I got. 

Not too bad for my 1st try... I'd like to get rid of the "grainy" look to it..

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Here is how we take lume shots.  We use a twin bulb fluorescent light.  It is the same one I use while working on cars.  We super charge the lume of our watches (in a dark room).  Then turn off the light and here is what we get.  BTW, no tripod just us holding the camera really steady.

Full light tower of Bathys:



Low light:



Lume:



Here are a few other shots we have be able to capture.





Stephen and Sandra
The Bathys King and Queen

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WOW, that's a whole lotta lumn! 

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Thanks Josh!!!!! hand6.gif  Bathys do have a lot of lume!!!! hand6.gif

Stephen and Sandra
The Bathys Hawaii King and Queen



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WOW, that's a whole lotta lumn! 

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I run in from the sun to a semi-dark room and snap away.








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Great lume shots all of you!  Gonna have to try some of the suggestions made by the photographers here.


Thanks

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Great pics and the lumes are awesome. hand6.gif

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If you use a tripod and a remote/self-timer you can set the exposure for as long as you like and get some very interesting pictures (if your camera has a manual setting). I also use a fluorescent light to charge lume, but also augment with a UV clip light for some older watches which discharge quickly (the UV also brings our flouresccent colours). Some light in the room can give you a nice semi-lume effect, but darkness can make it really interesting:











In Photoshop (or whatever image s/w you use), utilise "Unsharp Mask" to bring out the lume. Experiment around, you'll get it in short order :cool:

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