OT- first practice pics with my first digital camera
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Just baby steps, here- I still have a long, long way to go. These are actually the very first digital pictures I have taken with a camera. I may be about to graduate from my old scanner days...after some practice. At least I'm not frightened of the camera anymore. Startin' to get a little confidence. (At least I can turn it on, now, anyway. LOL)
Reimage of my detecting buddy Billy's dug 1819 large cent- looks better than the old scan.
Some arrowheads found in NC years ago.
Second pic of arrowheads- with flash.
Blue "feather edge" plate fragment from the old Hamilton Plantation site. Late 1700's to early 1800's. Most likely 1820's-30's.
Porcelain doll head found on a late-1800's site in Crescent, GA, which also yielded Steve ("Millenium")'s 1848 large cent and my 1876 Indian cent last month. The 1819 cent above was also found very near this site.
Indian pottery fragment found recently near the presumed site of the long-lost Spanish mission of Santo Domingo de Asajo, Saint Simons Island, GA. I found a 1658 Spanish coin there in 1998. The mission was established in 1595, destroyed by English slavers in 1661, rebuilt, and finally burned by pirates in 1684. This pottery sherd may date to the mission period or it may be prehistoric- I'm not really sure.
Old pocket watch movement found by eyesight alone in an embankment along the Darien, GA waterfront, along with a large portion of early pottery fragments (including some "Feather Edge" pieces like the one above). Probably mid-1800's. The embankment is beside the ruins of some old cotton warehouses that were burned by Federal troops in June of 1863 (an event dramatized in the 1989 film "Glory"). This old watch part may date from around the time the warehouses burned.
Reimage of my detecting buddy Billy's dug 1819 large cent- looks better than the old scan.
Some arrowheads found in NC years ago.
Second pic of arrowheads- with flash.
Blue "feather edge" plate fragment from the old Hamilton Plantation site. Late 1700's to early 1800's. Most likely 1820's-30's.
Porcelain doll head found on a late-1800's site in Crescent, GA, which also yielded Steve ("Millenium")'s 1848 large cent and my 1876 Indian cent last month. The 1819 cent above was also found very near this site.
Indian pottery fragment found recently near the presumed site of the long-lost Spanish mission of Santo Domingo de Asajo, Saint Simons Island, GA. I found a 1658 Spanish coin there in 1998. The mission was established in 1595, destroyed by English slavers in 1661, rebuilt, and finally burned by pirates in 1684. This pottery sherd may date to the mission period or it may be prehistoric- I'm not really sure.
Old pocket watch movement found by eyesight alone in an embankment along the Darien, GA waterfront, along with a large portion of early pottery fragments (including some "Feather Edge" pieces like the one above). Probably mid-1800's. The embankment is beside the ruins of some old cotton warehouses that were burned by Federal troops in June of 1863 (an event dramatized in the 1989 film "Glory"). This old watch part may date from around the time the warehouses burned.
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Ken
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Then affix an opaque (dang no spell checker), covering to all sides but one. Even a white garbabe bag will work - then shine lights toward the box. The opaque material will light up the coins nicely but diffuse the light to eliminate the shine.
Great first shots, Joe
09/07/2006
<< <i>Then affix an opaque (dang no spell checker), covering to all sides but one. >>
You don't need no steenkin' spell checker, Joe- you got "opaque" right the first time.
I guess light diffusion is what those funny upside-down white umbrellas in the portrait studios are all about, huh?
Bill- thanks. Nice new Conder, there.