How much do you trust photos on WC?

I’ve never even thought to edit my photos that I post here aside from sometimes cropping them to better center the watch in the photo.

All I do is crop my pictures. WYSIWYG. Warts and all.

Interesting experiment.

I've edited background stuff out like a person or a crack in a sidewalk, but never something on a watch itself.

On one hand, one can post however they want to post.

However, with thousands (millions?) of us doing online research on various different watch models, the lack of historical documentation of models by brands and the sometimes seemingly insignificant tiny incremental changes watch companies make in their watches year over year, posting these could have some severe unintended consequences down the line. Not necessarily to the poster of the images, but maybe in regards to confidence in the indutsry/hobby.

All of my photos begin as freehand pencil sketches. I later go back and colorize them using various media.

Maybe I should use the camera on my phone. It might be easier.

(Using filters and tools can be fun. It is only shady when you are selling something or deliberately misleading someone. I am usually on my first cup of coffee for the WRUW, so too groggy to edit.)

I hadn’t noticed your edits at all, but then I wasn’t looking for them. I only crop and change filters sometimes.

I would appreciate a disclaimer with any editing like you did, but I wouldn’t take it too seriously. There’s no legal obligation on an app like this, or it seems any now

It's not always very good at erasing, but on a quick glance it's hard to tell

I used the feature here to remove the glue from the old dashcam and the windows frame of the truck

I had to really study the Lazy Afternoon 🤣

I also just crop and adjust the white balance in Snapseed (yes, my phone and I are that old). But I guess you could turn this into one of those "I bet you can't spot all the differences" games.

That sounds awesome. Stay tuned

I'm a Luddite, what you see, is what I took. 😊

I'm your man for crappy blurry images. Realized early on while on WC how many photographer hobbiests/pros and youtubers are on here, and know many have thousands of $ worth of cameras, lens, light boxes and editing tools. Learned their lexicon terms like "B-roll" and "macro shots", words that didnt exist in my parlance. Now, I do because of this site and others.

I get it 100%. I only have nice film cameras and I'm not developing film of watches haha. Cellphone cameras are amazing nowadays.

Usually I set up a light box with carefully spaced and diffused LED lighting, meticulously arrange a tableaux of fascinating yet fun gewgaws and tchotskies that convey just how interesting a person I am, carefully place a polished timepiece in the precise location to exploit the golden ratio and then painstakingly take hundreds of images of a Patek Philippe 1526 with a Canon EOS R5 mounting a Tamron SP 90mm macro lens and then carefully edit out any flaws in Photoshop to give you the faux-casual snapshot of today's watch selection.

But sometimes - just sometimes folks - I startle myself awake from an ether binge in a rusted out dumpster behind a defunct 7-11, stumble into the street where I heave a cinder-block through a police prowler's rear window before leading the officers on an hour long foot chase through the industrial wasteland of a once proud metropolis whereupon I'm apprehended, mildly yet thoroughly beaten, and taken downtown where I cover my face for the perp walk giving the lone bored reporter on the police beat a chance to take a lazy snapshot with a second-hand Motorola cell phone with a cracked lens to give you the never to be run grainy back-page photo highlighting the patently fake Chinese Sub-Mariner homage that is my meth-addled hobo wrist-check.

I like the idea of editing something in a WRUW post and then asking the community to try and figure it out! Fun game idea!

I agree, it's a great idea and I'm going to put some effort into that