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ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Image that is. Shinny surfaces are difficult for me to image, especially on proof coins.



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  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
    I think it's very pretty! image
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

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    Don
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Ajaan, these look good, certainly better than scans-don't tell me they're scans...

    If I was buying I wouldn't say they're the best pics I'd ever seen but certainly attractive and more than adequate to buy from.

    Congratulations!image

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are from the camera. The sets are a real pain to image.

    DPOTD-3
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    Don
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Did those gold coins come cameo at all on the first strikes, or were they mostly brilliant proofs?image
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All the ones I own are brilliant proofs. I don't think they are cameo.

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  • ccrdragonccrdragon Posts: 2,697 ✭
    When I sold some of the SA gold proofs, the only way that I could get a decent picture was to use the lampshade method (put a lampshade over the coin with the light on the outside and take a pic thru the top hole). Any other way that I tried, I always got the reflection that you are showing.

    Mac - of the gold proofs SA proofs that I have seen or owned, all were brilliant proofs (not a single chance at cameo on any of them)
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  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    Bravo Don, great images...... imageimageimage
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    Not only the coins look great, but I also think that your photos have vastly improved, especially the group photos.I assume that the first two were reduced for size reasons,so they are a bit blurry, but you captured the luster and the the nice red colour of the copper coins. image
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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Nice Don!! image
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  • UdoUdo Posts: 984 ✭✭
    Very nice images Don! image
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Not Bad Don. Looks like soon you won't be needing my photos anymore.image
    Bill

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Shinny surfaces are difficult for me to image, especially on proof coins. >>

    Then get your shins out of the picture. image

    Seriously, though, you've come a long way, baby.

    Perhaps farther than I have. image

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    very nice... I like the gold... very cool

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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    "Getting better all the time."
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Don - That is a very beautiful set!!! I,too,have trouble taking pictures of complete sets - the reflectivity is different on each coin it seems. I think you did a good job!
    Shep
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you everyone for your compliments.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
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