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How to make your Instagram grid look better

How to make your Instagram grid look better

Ah, the grid. Another nuance and byproduct of our modern day Instagram culture. Whether you love to hate it, or hate to love it, it's a part of your profile...
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How to take better wrist shots of your watches

How to take better wrist shots of your watches

The wrist shot is a staple of watch photography. On Instagram alone, there are nearly 2.6m posts tagged with #wristshot. And it makes sense why: it's the most common, most...
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How to add depth to your watch photos

How to add depth to your watch photos

I've always been drawn to the power of digital images. From the first .bmp I ever hit Save as on to the .jpg's I upload to Instagram daily, I feel...
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Why They Work: Dissecting 3 beautiful watch photos

Why They Work: Dissecting 3 beautiful watch photos

Achieving mastery in a craft involves a lot more than just performing the craft itself. It involves understanding the craft, which consequentially involves the ability to articulate the ins and...
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Black Bay flatlay timelapse edit

Black Bay flatlay timelapse edit

In UI design, we sometimes use the squint test to determine whether we've found the right balance of contrast and hierarchy in our work. The idea is that, when you...
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How to save your watch photo with local adjustments

How to save your watch photo with local adjustments

We've all been there before. You take a shot where your eyes are so locked into the future edited state that you're blind to the poor conditions of the reality...
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How to edit blue watch dials

How to edit blue watch dials

Have I ever mentioned that I hate blue? Okay, hate is a strong word, but I heavily dislike blue. In photos specifically, I should say. In fact, I'd say that...
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How to edit your watch lume

How to edit your watch lume

Okay, before you get on my case about the G-SHOCK 6900's light not technically qualifying for lume: I hear you. I get it. But entertain me for a sec because...
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3 watch photo editing tricks

3 watch photo editing tricks

In an ideal world, every shot we take is already perfectly exposed, white balanced, and free of blemishes. Spoiler alert: this is not a world we live in. In fact,...
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Pocket shot edit breakdown

Pocket shot edit breakdown

Don't get me started on the art and science of taking a proper pocket shot. That'll be a tutorial for another day. As it turns out though, my very first...
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