Working with my Camera, Merc pic here, any guesses on the grade?
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I noticed that working with a coin behind a slab or in a 2X2 is much harder to photograph. In this photo I have two lights my Minolta Dimage S404 CAMERA IN macro mode (Which isn't that great...unless I'm using the camera wrong...lol) and my number one Loupe. I hold the loupe right against the camera lens and the camera has no problems focusing in on the coin.
Any pointers on how to catch the glimmer and toning of a coin would be appreciated.
Thanks for looking,
Ray
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Any pointers on how to catch the glimmer and toning of a coin would be appreciated.
Practice with photoshop, and differant angles of lighting
Your coin looks MS65? You may want to change the white balance to get rid of some of the yellow of the light. Also crop the picture down to the edge of the coin and it will be a smaller file.
To get the glare even, I use a piece of white paper taped over the light, which acts as a diffuser. Generally requires shooting at an angle. The farther the camera is from the coin, the less the angle. Small coins are harder because the camera has to be closer, thus requiring more angle to get the light into the pic.
The pic below is a pretty good example except that you can delete the other two undiffused lights on the right. If you add in extra lights like those on the right it will wash the color out a bit, but will give you some luster in exchange.
This was shot with that method. I used software to make it look round again to get rid of most of the angle effect.
Do you have a tri-pod? It looks like a tripod and how do you take pics? Do you have one of those buttons att he end of the wire or do you take it with software attached to your computer?
Ray
Here is a touched up pic which I think better represents the colors of the toning.
Again it has glare. I think I may have to get a few more items to better enhance, maybe I should work with a Raw coin for a bit.
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