there's blue ink for a start.

Very nice photograph. With all that metal, the ink is just perfect. Thank you for your efforts.

My pleasure. I like having some ink mess about.

I think your watch is wrong. It's actually 7:00 AM.

Great photo and composition.

very nice picture

Thanks. I'd been meaning to look up the time.

Thanks Georges and Shoppy, much appreciated.

You get such sharpness of detail, Dave. I like it! Do you have a flickr account?

WOW!! Such sharpness and details from a canon video cam! I can't believe it!!

Thanks. I think I took this one with a tripod and the countdown timer and I also muck about diffusing the light a bit. I haven't set up anything on flickr but it could be fun. I've been enjoying taking pics and I joined a photography site here but I haven't had time to do much on it yet.

It's a great little camera and sits in the palm of the hand quite easily. Canon gave it to us a couple of years ago because they couldn't fix our old one which was even more compact. We had a few days away last week and so now I've finally read the manual!

Nice Photo.
Nice Titoni watch !
Surprised to see someone with a modern looking Titoni.
Titoni used to be popular in the far east in the 60s and 70s.
Now not many people wear it anymore.

I have a Titoni too but more of a dress watch style.

Thanks. Nice to meet another Titoni owner. They are still the same family-owned Swiss company. The brand name was Felca up until the 1950s and its main markets have been in the far east and middle east for a long time. They can be found on the web and I like them.

I consider TItoni to be real value for money.
Here is how mine look like.
A bit dressy and old fashion but I got it at a really good price

Care to share any secrets? Backlighting, to me, is a confunkling thing.

Well it's a bit of a voyage of discovery for me too!

I do a couple of things depending on how much mucking about I want to do. The thing I mainly worry about is getting rid of burn out. Once I started noticing it in my pics and others I found it really distracting. For shots around the house I'll tear off a bit of baking paper (tracing paper from art stores is apparently even better) and wave it about. I hold it between the light source (window, desk lamp etc) and the item. The closer it is to the item the more diffuse the light, the closer to the light source then the more ambient light bounces of the object and the closer to normal it is.

I have also used some A4 sheets of printer paper for an impromptu light box, which is what I did at the top of the thread, although the backgrounds get a bit clinically dull. Lighting was though a nearby window and also a desk lamp (with a kid's plastic cup over it), both on the other side of the paper. Another trick I've tried is to point the desk lamps towards the wall to pick up some colour and soften the light.

A fellow I know on another forum gets brilliant results just by using a space near a window of his home with a white translucent blind to filter the light. Always looks great.

Because this camera is only 2 megapixels I don't have much leeway for cropping so I tend to get in very close. I like handheld probably more than tripod because it is so much easier to frame the shot.

That is about the sum total of my knowledge... gee, that didn't take long!

Great photos and thanks for the 'lighting' advice. Now you've got me interested in Titoni watches!

I hate to sound stupid but what brand pen is that? I am a complete newbie so forgive me.

It's a Lamy 2000. Go here for a review.

I like it. It looks like I have another contender for my next pen. Minmalism has its good points for sure.