Gary G
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Thanks, Tim!
It does of course help to have some great starting materials!
Best,
Gary
Observatoire Macro Day
By: Gary G : November 25th, 2012-17:05
Greetings to all! This is my second attempt to post this set of photos, as the site ate my homework the first time. After some unusually colorful cursing, I have returned to the keyboard, but thankfully for you will not re-type the lengthy exposition on t...
wheel color
By: mhickcox : November 27th, 2012-21:13
Gary, I was looking just now at your fabulous photos on my big monitor and wonder is it just me, or are the crown wheel and ratchet wheel slightly different color in the first few photographs? The crown wheel seems to have more of a brass or yellowish tin...
Good eyes!
By: Gary G : November 27th, 2012-21:58
Hi, Michael -- I'm on the road right now so don't have the ability to pull my watch out of the safe and look right now, but by studying the photos and drawing on my recollection, my best sense is that the wheels are in fact different colors. As you note, ...
Another, earlier photo
By: Gary G : November 27th, 2012-22:10
Michael -- Here's another photo of the watch, taken a few months ago in natural light: Again in this shot, the wheels appear quite different to me. Part of it may be the way that the ratchet wheel is finished (deeply grained) vs. the crown wheel, and may ...
Surreal!
By: fernando : November 25th, 2012-20:21
Again, these movement pics. are tops & demonstrates what can be achieved at the very high end. I understand your frustration with lost text and wasted effort as I have experienced the same, resulting in the utmost profanity. :) The solution: write len...
Good advice!
By: Gary G : November 25th, 2012-23:17
This isn't the first time I have inadvertently navigated away from a draft post or hit the backspace key on a photo -- both of which kill the entire post! Thanks for the advice and kind words, Fernando. Best, Gary
No, and yes...
By: Gary G : November 25th, 2012-23:19
Thanks, Andrew! Practice, practice, practice, as they say. Not entirely satisfied with this batch but thought that a few were "good enough" to share. You are correct in assuming that I have something in hand for Macro Monday :-) Best, Gary
Non-AR crystal
By: Gary G : November 26th, 2012-14:07
Thanks for your comment and question! You are of course correct that Kari does not use external AR on his crystals, which can make it tough to get clear images. I do a lot of repositioning of watch, camera, and lights to eliminate direct reflections, and ...
WOWWWWWWW
By: Hororgasm : November 27th, 2012-12:01
very crisp and illustrative shot. really bring out Kari's finishing to the tee. perhaps Kari should buy these images for his marketing materials!! stacking, shagging, stagging...all greek to me!! :)- best, Horo