One Coin - Two Photos

lilolme

Do you have a couple of photos of a coin that show different aspects of it?
Not talking about out of focus, extra bad white balance, photoshop gymnastics or similar stuff.
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Messing around and killing time again with the snap-o'matic. Here are four coins that I tried to get those different aspects to come out in two different photos. Was kind of entertaining in a way but did turn on the speakers to help with that.
Once again I am not a photographer so no pro-pic's here.

First up the 1795. It is a darker coin but I like the circ-cam look. In hand with a good overhead light (not a dim one) some color can be seen when the light is kind of directly on the coin. Left photo is what it looks like generally. The only way I could get some of the color to come out (it is similar all around) was to center the light on Liberty or with light glare.

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Next I took the previous Morgan DMPL reflection photo and then took a better black and white type DMPL photo. I notice that sometimes proofs (and less occasionally DMPL) are done with the reflection type photo.

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And a Trade dollar (not my normal thing). Not so much change in the photo set up but surprising how much the color changed with what seemed like relatively small positioning and light changes. I should double check by comparing in hand to the photos but in hand it is normally between the two and closer to the darker one. But of course this can vary depending on how it is being viewed in hand.

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Yes I can count to two but I decided to add the third photo in the center (bottom) because I just thought it was a good one (normally have trouble getting that field color on something like this one to come out). The right photo is kind of what it looks like without direct lighting in the room. That is the field color is not easily seen. But the left one shows off the field color that is seen in hand with most any overhead lighting when tilted correctly. The left photo is in a semi-glare position to try and pull out more of the field color.

FlyingAl

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lermish

The_Dinosaur_Man

Mr_Spud

Same coin, different lighting. I took these pictures about 15 years ago or so