Titanium watch.
I first fell in love with titanium when I discovered that my neighbour had a made poker out of a rod of pure titanium (OK, at least one of us is weird!). The strange thing about it was that it was amazingly light, like heavy plastic or wood (it’s about 60% of the density of steel) but when you put it in the fire rather than melting or burning the handle just became hot. Definitely an odd challenge to our sensory preconceptions…
Titanium is stronger than steel and has a dark grey muted lustre. The best thing for me, and why I love it, is that it has a crystalline structure that sparkles in the right light, often in blues and purples (the poker was definitely purple though whether that was the heat or the purity I’m not sure). I did try to take a picture of the sparkles for this week’s MM but it ended up looking like a bad case of colour noise – perhaps another time.
Enough ramble, to the image. This is my much loved rather battered watch with its titanium case. There are probably three metals in the picture – gold makes a great contrast in colour, shine and reflectivity, and the watch face is in some brushed white metal, probably some steel alloy at a guess.
Thanks for looking (and reading if you got this far!). Hope you enjoy it HMM :)
[Top lit with daylight (yesterday's evening gloom more like – I was running late). Some extra light reflected on to the front just using white paper. Tripod; delayed release. I don't think I have ever taken a picture at f57 before lol.
Almost no mangling (hurrah!), just basic exposure stuff in LR and metadata in iMatch. No vignette… no really, I can do photos without one, scary though ;)
And you score 20 points if you’ve worked out that the date on the watch is wrong.:) Have fun!]
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