Love Token Macro Pictures

Munkey

Let me start by saying that I am fairly new to numismatic's, and I also just recently started doing photography as well. That being said, I just got a 100mm 2.8 lens (renting for a week) and I want to take pictures of my coin collection. I am attaching my Love Token pictures just as a reference. I took them just today with my new 100mm. If you would be so kind as to first not hand me my butt, and second please CC and let me know what I can do to improve the pictures that I will be taking (as I will be selling them in BST) I would like to take the most accurate pictures possible as I can, so any advice is kindly needed.

LOOK I DID IT! HA!
Edited to ask how do you keep your images below 50KB? I had to resize my picture till they almost went away to get them under the limit. In real life the pictures are over 1MB each.

solid

JPG files can be saved with "compression" to decrease the file size. Depending on the software you use, there
may be a "percentage" compression you can specify, or a slider control that you can move between "image quality"
and "file size". If you play with these, you should be able to find a balance that lets you get fairly good quality with
a decent size image and still keep it below 50k.

The other thing you could consider doing is to sign up for a free photo sharing service like photobucket, etc.
These will allow you to upload images that are larger than 50k and then simply link to the photos there, in
your posts here.

Hope that helps. Looks like an interesting love token you have there, but I really cannot comment on the photo
quality because the images are so small.

Good luck!

Ken