Toned Proof Roosevelt - practicing my photo skills

Windycity

Still having trouble capturing attrative toning in my pictures. Here's my latest attempt at a 1950 Roosevelt MS 67 and another 1951 MS 67.

Purple73

Have you tried the angled glass technique?

Windycity

No... can you explain or direct me to a thread that might help me out?

JrGMan2004

I have a really tough time with showing color without diffusing the light in some way...

There are a few options:

#1) Take your coin and camera outside during twilight hours or on a cloudy day, and take the picture there, it might work better...

#2) Use piece of white computer paper between the coin and the light... many times it will produce glare on the slab, but it will show the color well, and the glare will be even across the coin, and can often be removed in Photoshop...

#3) This method produces a similar result as #2, though I haven't decided which is better/easier... for this method, you take the lamp down below the level of the coin, and point it up, using a piece of white paper to reflect the light back down onto the coin.

Purple73

Windy-

Here is something I copied from a searched thread.....I'll try to find more

This is From Bikingnut:

Dennis can you show us a picture of how you set this up? Nice pictures.

I didn't take a picture, but it was pretty simple. I used a black NGC storage box as the backstop that I stand the coin up against, almost vertical. The slab is also elevated about half an inch so the coin is directly in front of the view finder. I used a piece of 5X7 glass from a picture frame and leaned it against the slabe at an agle. To keep it from slipping I taped the bottom edge to the table. Almost as hi tech as Ken's.

Dennis

Purple73

Here is a real good thread! Some pictures are missing but there are still some good examples in there!

Glass technique

Windycity

This is helpful. I will try and find an appropriate piece of glass to test this out.

Pat

XpipedreamR

Good luck. Your coins look like they would be great in hand. I've never seen a really good photo of a toned proof Roosie, for some reason, though...

Windycity

Grabbed a piece of glass and tried the photo through angled glass and I believe the color of the resulting photo is closer than the original picture. What do you guys think? First picture is the prior photo and the second is through glass.