Beware iphone photos

[Timnic54]

Everywhere I read how great the iphone cameras are now. Personally I don't agree. I think they way the iphone software handles colour , even in natural light is pretty crap.

Take a look at this watch. You may notice that the hands and subdial rings are very much blue. Photo was taken in natural light



Here is a photo of the same watch I took it in perfect natural light with iphone X



Don't see much blue.

Not much we can do about this. However I think it is important when buying watches from photos, often taken with iphone, not to pay too much attention to colours.

 

[ginopino]

just a matter of white balance... I found that Samsung are more crappy due to an extreme gamma for the colours, too much vivid.

 

[WingNut]

Interesting...

Gamma, Bamma...Slamma...

Search and look for what the watch is supposed to be...just say'in.

Thanks Tim

 

[Kilowattore]

Color has always been an issue. You also have to consider that every screen will have different settings so it will render the picture differently.
That's why the rep factories can't ever get the right blue in dials imho.

 

[ginopino]

Color has always been an issue. You also have to consider that every screen will have different settings so it will render the picture differently.
That's why the rep factories can't ever get the right blue in dials imho.

In fact, professional printers have to be carefully caibrated with the display, so you can render the exact colour you will print.
Not all the monitor are good for this kind of work.

And this things reflect also on photographs: you took a photo with any camera, it will show different in colors from a display to another...

 

[Scott]

I agree about the iPhone -- the automatic processing leans toward contrasty pictures for "pop" (dark shadows, high saturation) because it looks good to people. I always say that I wish rep sellers would include a color card in their pictures...

 

[Watches2Play]

iPhone pics are generally overexposed I think. I usually manually lower the exposure a bit and punch up the color saturation. Seems to help make the pics a bit more punchy, maybe a bit less natural but better looking on a mobile screen.
Getting blued hands to show up right is always hard, I have had several such watches and had a devil of a time getting the blue to show.

 

[Timnic54]

iPhone pics are generally overexposed I think. I usually manually lower the exposure a bit and punch up the color saturation. Seems to help make the pics a bit more punchy, maybe a bit less natural but better looking on a mobile screen.
Getting blued hands to show up right is always hard, I have had several such watches and had a devil of a time getting the blue to show.

I think IOS hates blue. I don't have this problem with other devices.

 

[CarpetRyd]

Portrait mode is pretty cool though...

 

[Timnic54]

Its a Blue Fest

 

[Cristobal]

My iPhone X takes amazing photos!! But then again I’m very big into mobile photography.

 

[mech500]

I much prefer iPhone sales pictures over those “white box” pictures that sellers take with their high end DSLRs.


For example:

Here’s a “white-box” picture (sorry don’t know the correct term), taken from a sales listing: it’s hard to see brushing, a lot of detailed is grayed out. I have no idea what the watch will look like in real life.



And here’s a simple iPhone picture taken in natural light (automatic setting). Everything looks much crisper and blemishes aren’t grayed out. What you see is what you get (unlike with light box pictures).


Apologies, if my analogy is deviating from the point of your thread.

 

[Rush]

Speaking of taking pictures of our watches, I came across this meme LOL



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[Maron]

Color has always been an issue. You also have to consider that every screen will have different settings so it will render the picture differently.
That's why the rep factories can't ever get the right blue in dials imho.

In fact, professional printers have to be carefully caibrated with the display, so you can render the exact colour you will print.
Not all the monitor are good for this kind of work.

And this things reflect also on photographs: you took a photo with any camera, it will show different in colors from a display to another...

I recently purchased a monitor for photographers made by Benq. It has all these settings for that but I only bought it because it was a good price for a 1440p


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[Maron]

I much prefer iPhone sales pictures over those “white box” pictures that sellers take with their high end DSLRs.


For example:

Here’s a “white-box” picture (sorry don’t know the correct term), taken from a sales listing: it’s hard to see brushing, a lot of detailed is grayed out. I have no idea what the watch will look like in real life.
View attachment 14269


And here’s a simple iPhone picture taken in natural light (automatic setting). Everything looks much crisper and blemishes aren’t grayed out. What you see is what you get (unlike with light box pictures).
View attachment 14270

Apologies, if my analogy is deviating from the point of your thread.

In theory one should be able to take a better photo with a dslr and light box. I think in this case they exposure or white balance is too high


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[mech500]

I much prefer iPhone sales pictures over those “white box” pictures that sellers take with their high end DSLRs.


For example:

Here’s a “white-box” picture (sorry don’t know the correct term), taken from a sales listing: it’s hard to see brushing, a lot of detailed is grayed out. I have no idea what the watch will look like in real life.
View attachment 14269


And here’s a simple iPhone picture taken in natural light (automatic setting). Everything looks much crisper and blemishes aren’t grayed out. What you see is what you get (unlike with light box pictures).
View attachment 14270

Apologies, if my analogy is deviating from the point of your thread.

In theory one should be able to take a better photo with a dslr and light box. I think in this case they exposure or white balance is too high


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Yes, that’s true but I see a LOT of eBay/chrono24 sellers with the same white balance pictures. A lot of TD QC pictures are this way too.

Some more examples:




Here another DSLR pic....bet the dial and strap looking nothing like that colour in real life
In this case it would be better for the seller to just point and shoot with an iPhone. Lol



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[SuperLory]

Whaat ap is the last one ?.?

 

[mech500]

Whaat ap is the last one ?.?

Fuck knows. Lol. Pic is that shit, it could be anything. Hehe.

I actually think it’s a Havana but not sure.


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[SuperLory]

Could be havana yes

 

[Maron]

I much prefer iPhone sales pictures over those “white box” pictures that sellers take with their high end DSLRs.


For example:

Here’s a “white-box” picture (sorry don’t know the correct term), taken from a sales listing: it’s hard to see brushing, a lot of detailed is grayed out. I have no idea what the watch will look like in real life.
View attachment 14269


And here’s a simple iPhone picture taken in natural light (automatic setting). Everything looks much crisper and blemishes aren’t grayed out. What you see is what you get (unlike with light box pictures).
View attachment 14270

Apologies, if my analogy is deviating from the point of your thread.

In theory one should be able to take a better photo with a dslr and light box. I think in this case they exposure or white balance is too high


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Yes, that’s true but I see a LOT of eBay/chrono24 sellers with the same white balance pictures. A lot of TD QC pictures are this way too.

Some more examples:
View attachment 14332
View attachment 14333


Here another DSLR pic....bet the dial and strap looking nothing like that colour in real life
In this case it would be better for the seller to just point and shoot with an iPhone. Lol
View attachment 14334


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I would not buy a watch from a sales listing that has photos like that


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