How about some Eagle photos?

in2Coins

Mr_Spud

Great images! Heres the best I could do with my cell phone

And here’s an AI eagle I designed the other day that I thought came out interesting, impossible of course, but interesting to me for some reason

Copperindian

1857 FE’s:

Morgan13

Copperindian

1858 FE’s:

Mr_Spud

In no particular order, here’s some of my favorite Eagles coin images from my collection

And here’s a few actual Eagle pictures I took from when I went to Alaska

OAKSTAR

It's a little blurry but you get the point.

CharlotteDude

By far my favorite Eagle design, and accompanying color,,,

PeakRarities

My favorite iteration of an "Eagle" on U.S. Coin designs, though it looks more like a goose. This one is no longer with me, gone but never forgotten 😢.

jtlee321

@in2Coins you are doing a great job with your images. One suggestion if you don't mind a little feedback. Increase your exposure in your images above by around a full stop. I'd do this by adjusting your shutter speed. I'm not sure how long your shutter speed is currently, but if it's around 1/30 second adjust it to 1/15 - 1/13 second. This will give you an increase in exposure of a full stop to 1.3 stops. I've downloaded your first image above and made an adjustment in Photoshop of 1.35 stops to produce the resulting image.

Before:

After:

Here are some screen shots of the histograms of each image. The histogram is a graphical representation of the tonal range of an image. The left side represents shadow detail or darkest areas of the image, the lowest level is 0 or black/no shadow information. The right side represents highlight detail of the brightest areas of an image, the highest level is 255 or white/no highlight image information. Here are the histograms of the images above.

Before:

After:

If you notice in the before image the large spikes at the far left and the gentle hump in the middle that trails off to nothing at about the 80% mark before it reaches the right side? That indicates an underexposure with no highlights getting even remotely close to full values of 255.

The after image shows the large spike on the left reduced in height greatly and the hump that was in the middle has shifted towards the right. Again, it does not quite reach all the way to the right, but much more of the image information has been shifted towards the highlights producing a brighter image. This is getting very close to what you want. Having the right side of the hump end just before or right at the right edge is what you want to see in your images of most blast white silver coins.

Now what you don't want is the information shifted too far to the right as it will indicate an overexposure and blown out hightlights. Below is an example with a corresponding histogram. These images show an increase of the original by 2 full stops in exposure.

Notice the shift in that hump to the right that is now starting to become a spike? This is what you want to avoid.

Take this information and do some testing. I think you will start to get some great results that will take your photography to an even higher level. Keep it up and have some fun!

in2Coins

@PeakRarities said:
My favorite iteration of an "Eagle" on U.S. Coin designs, though it looks more like a goose. This one is no longer with me, gone but never forgotten 😢.

Wow!

in2Coins

@jtlee321 said:
@in2Coins you are doing a great job with your images. One suggestion if you don't mind a little feedback. Increase your exposure in your images above by around a full stop. I'd do this by adjusting your shutter speed. I'm not sure how long your shutter speed is currently, but if it's around 1/30 second adjust it to 1/15 - 1/13 second. This will give you an increase in exposure of a full stop to 1.3 stops. I've downloaded your first image above and made an adjustment in Photoshop of 1.35 stops to produce the resulting image.

Before:

After:

Here are some screen shots of the histograms of each image. The histogram is a graphical representation of the tonal range of an image. The left side represents shadow detail or darkest areas of the image, the lowest level is 0 or black/no shadow information. The right side represents highlight detail of the brightest areas of an image, the highest level is 255 or white/no highlight image information. Here are the histograms of the images above.

Before:

After:

If you notice in the before image the large spikes at the far left and the gentle hump in the middle that trails off to nothing at about the 80% mark before it reaches the right side? That indicates an underexposure with no highlights getting even remotely close to full values of 255.

The after image shows the large spike on the left reduced in height greatly and the hump that was in the middle has shifted towards the right. Again, it does not quite reach all the way to the right, but much more of the image information has been shifted towards the highlights producing a brighter image. This is getting very close to what you want. Having the right side of the hump end just before or right at the right edge is what you want to see in your images of most blast white silver coins.

Now what you don't want is the information shifted too far to the right as it will indicate an overexposure and blown out hightlights. Below is an example with a corresponding histogram. These images show an increase of the original by 2 full stops in exposure.

Notice the shift in that hump to the right that is now starting to become a spike? This is what you want to avoid.

Take this information and do some testing. I think you will start to get some great results that will take your photography to an even higher level. Keep it up and have some fun!

Not at all! Feedback from expert like you is always welcome. To be honest, I hardly ever pay attention to the histogram…. I will now.

Eldorado9

Eldorado9

jfriedm56

Seraph21

@in2Coins I find that a 18% gray card really helps with dialing in the base exposure settings.

FlyingAl

retirednow

Saam

Kurisu

jfriedm56

An unusual stylized eagle

jfriedm56

lilolme

Did I miss it or no silver small eagle yet?
Here are some I posted previously and includes the silver small eagle (not my pic but an in-holder TV).
I did take another quick photo of the silver bar eagle (as the other was even worse ). I think it was @coinsarefun (???) that had a set of these eagle bars or at least a photo and information on them.
And one more Morgan.

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coinbuf

The classics are great, but this is my all time fav.

fathom

winesteven

Steve

winesteven

In the “wine world”, here’s a representation of Napa Valley’s top Cult cabernet:

Steve

PeakRarities

Here’s a few more…

pursuitofliberty

Copperindian

@winesteven said:
In the “wine world”, here’s a representation of Napa Valley’s top Cult cabernet:

Steve

Steve -
You know I love that one!
Ken

asheland

Forgive me using the same old pictures, but I have a few:

Twobitcollector

jfriedm56

pcgscacgold

Here are a few

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DCW

Floridafacelifter

MWallace

pcgscacgold

@MWallace you made me think of these
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Autophagy

@Mr_Spud said:
In no particular order, here’s some of my favorite Eagles coin images from my collection

And here’s a few actual Eagle pictures I took from when I went to Alaska

@OAKSTAR said:

Gorgeous stuff gentlemen!!!

Ridley06

OAKSTAR

OAKSTAR

OAKSTAR

Not the best pictures but you get the point.

CommemDude

OAKSTAR

coinsarefun

@lilolme said:
as the other was even worse ). I think it was @coinsarefun (???) that had a set of these eagle bars or at least a photo and information on them.
And one more Morgan.

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Yep.

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And, playing around with Ron Landis piece

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emeraldATV

OAKSTAR

................and just like that, there goes a perfectly nice thread. 😢 😡

PeakRarities

@emeraldATV said:

Emerald are you for real? Throw that thing away, yuck 🤮. Talk about a turd in the punch bowl…

emeraldATV

in2Coins

@Floridafacelifter said:

Wow….just wow!!!