An Afternoon's Images

FlyingAl

Just a whole bunch of random coin images from this afternoon. Trying out a few new things, but I liked how these took shape so I figured I'd post them. A lot of these are rejects at the end of the day, but they do show my creative process fairly well.

Capgun

Dare I say gorgeous pics

lermish

I always like a slightly angled picture but the vast majority of people only like a straight on shot (for obvious reasons). These are very beautiful pics.

Any particular reason you chose to angle these pictures other than artistic license?

FlyingAl

@lermish said:
I always like a slightly angled picture but the vast majority of people only like a straight on shot (for obvious reasons). These are very beautiful pics.

Any particular reason you chose to angle these pictures other than artistic license?

Nope, purely for the aesthetic here. It’s a different way to present the coin, for me this style conveys the artistic side of coin photography while the straight on shots are simply a way to convey how the coin looks. A good straight on coin photograph has very little to do with art and everything to do with precision and accuracy in my opinion.

jonathanb

I like the pictures, as long as the angle is intentional. I think I'd be annoyed if auction houses switched over to this style as a matter of course, though.

The focus is soft on the bottom of the images of the larger coins. If you're using Photoshop, it has a nifty feature to Auto-Blend Layers that lets you take several similar pictures with different focus points, then it stitches them together to give a single unified picture where everything is in focus at the same time. Very magic, very impressive results.

FlyingAl

@jonathanb said:
I like the pictures, as long as the angle is intentional. I think I'd be annoyed if auction houses switched over to this style as a matter of course, though.

The focus is soft on the bottom of the images of the larger coins. If you're using Photoshop, it has a nifty feature to Auto-Blend Layers that lets you take several similar pictures with different focus points, then it stitches them together to give a single unified picture where everything is in focus at the same time. Very magic, very impressive results.

Also intentional. Most of these images are shot at F5.6 to induce those results.

The_Dinosaur_Man

These remind me of a series of photos I did back in my later high school/early college days combining coins with playing cards and having a "gambling" motif for them.

crazyhounddog

Your pics are very well done. Although I’m a straight on shot guy myself. I like to see a very well lighted coin with sharp as possible details.