Capture everose in photography?

[enjoythemusic]

Control of lighting and background helps quite a bit for cheap cell cameras imho.

[samuel019]

Originally Posted by enjoythemusic

Control of lighting and background helps quite a bit for cheap cell cameras imho.

Well said Steven

Most everyone on TRF knows of my love for RG and if all I had to go by was pics from the net I’d probably not be. Rolex RG online can look very very different than real life. I think it’s quite hard to capture without proper equipment. Online pics look more copperish than real life. While white and yellow gold look pretty much the same online and in real life to me and I’ve seen both.

I mean look at this crappy pic of mine. Can you really see the uniqueness of RG? Not really. I think it’s helpful to have a YG or WG model beside one in RG and as others have stated RG is actually very subtle in real life. Waaaay less noticeable and blingy than YG. I tried on a YG DD the same day I bought my 126715 and was like nope.

[RolexRon456]

Love all the sundust dials: Daytona, DJ, sky, DD

[10klakes]

Thanks for posting your pics. RG is the one metal I don’t have, yet…

[pmm21]

Originally Posted by Lightsped

Has anyone ever been able to accurately capture Rolex everose in photography? Seems like nearly every photo with the cellphone the everose comes out as looking like SS or Platinum. Very difficult to get the gold hue of this watch that is visible in real life.

Same deal with the sunburst sundust colored dial. Extremely difficult to accurately capture the sundust dial in images.

Best option is to shoot raw, with a color chart, then do a quick pass in Lightroom or similar. Jpeg compression can wreak havoc on certain colors, in terms of presenting them as authentic.

[Lightsped]

Nice sundust dial photo. I will continue to try to improve photos with sundust and everose.

[Alan111]

Take a look at this photo here. This is what Rolex's everose looks like in person.

(not my photo - photo is from this thread: https://www.rolexforums.com/showpost...19&postcount=8)

[Lightsped]

Still trying to capture the Sundust dial on RG. How did this one turn out?

[mtherrmann]

Originally Posted by Lightsped

Has anyone ever been able to accurately capture Rolex everose in photography? Seems like nearly every photo with the cellphone the everose comes out as looking like SS or Platinum. Very difficult to get the gold hue of this watch that is visible in real life.

Same deal with the sunburst sundust colored dial. Extremely difficult to accurately capture the sundust dial in images.

I think it might have to do with the quality of light hitting the everrose gold. Because the gold is polished it creates a mirror surface so any big light source will essentially reflect back like a 1/2 mirror. A similar scenario can unfold if photographing recently polished shell cordovan leather. The Alden red color usually will take on whatever the ambient light color temp is around it because the leather is so shiny it reflects back a lot of the light.

Try photographing the watch with some black around it to block a bit of that reflection. You could literally hold x2 black t-shirts to the left and right (or play around with other positions) and it will likely make the everrose color pop.

[Devildog]

To get the true hue of any colour you need to shoot raw and post process.

You also have to understand that unless fully calibrated, every phone and monitor will not display the image correctly anyway.

I spent 30 seconds with Screwley's first picture in photoshop (original is the bottom pic)

[rolexjackson]

Originally Posted by Michael T

Get an 18% reflectance gray card and shoot it in the picture. Photoshop and Lightroom have a setting that adjusts the color temperature against the grey card. I would also recommend shooting in the shade, outside, mid-day.

This is correct, the problem with shooting rose gold is 100% a white balance issue and can be corrected in post processing or with a camera white balance setting.


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[roadie1]

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[Lightsped]

Thanks for the tips. WB is one area of photography I haven't played around with much. I am familiar with post processing, but still need to play around with WB.

[YoMike951]

Here's my attempt at capturing my RG by placing next to other pieces for color comparison.

[jw0n]

[Baiv]

A lot of photographic skill on display lovely pictures!

[watchaser]

Everose and RG in general is my favorite PM. Couple photos from my phone which are a decent capture.





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