Seeking Photo critique/ opinions on my Civil War Token

commoncents05

Picked this up a few weeks back. The token is outstanding, and has a lot of Red left. In my opinion, the pics make it look cleaned, but I assure you it's original red. Any help photographing red copper? What do you think of the CWT? Thanks in advance for sharing the knowledge!




-Paul

robec

The only thing I can add is maybe to under expose 1/3 and check your white balance. You have a very nice image.

N8

I can see a shadow on the left side of the coin and an uneven brightness accross the coin (vertically). Maybe add another light source to the left to even her out and bam! Very cool token, I like what the reverse says.

skier07

Nice coin. That's pretty cool.

I like your photo but it looks a little bit underexposed, just a tad.

Bruce

ldhair

Really nice token and the image is great.
That said, I feel it has been cleaned. The fields give this away, IMHO.
With white balance issues and images in general I could be entirely wrong.

robec

Under exposing the image will make it a little darker with each 1/3 increment. Over exposing will do the opposite. In my opinion, I don't think it needs to be any lighter.

commoncents05

Here's some different pics at a different angle. What do you think now?




-Paul

robec

The bottom one looks a bit redder, but I think N8 was correct about needing at least 2 light sources.