Any and all photo help with this proof 1876 would be great. Shootin for perfection, New images first

DUIGUY

Really bangin my head against the wall on this one.






So I went for the potatoe salad container but it was looking pretty nasty, will try that angle later on a stronger stomach.

New pics;

blu62vette

back the lights away.....

DorkGirl

Try a lampshade.......

drwstr123

Back the lights away.

coindeuce

Try using a piece of matte black card stock or black velvet(NOT the whiskey ) directly under the medal, and lower the angle of the lights.

mkman123

wow pretty cool! good pic. What is it????

BECOKA

Put a milk jug with the top and bottom cut off around it and shine the lights in through the sides with the lens pointing through.

DUIGUY

<< <i>Put a milk jug with the top and bottom cut off around it and shine the lights in through the sides with the lens pointing through. >>



Tried that.

mgoodm3

overloading the detector with the reflection. Need to back off the lights a little. A more diffused light may alos help (milk carton/lampshade).

DUIGUY

<< <i>wow pretty cool! good pic. What is it???? >>



1876 International Exposition Danish Medal.

messydesk

Aim the lights up at a piece of white paper or get a white styrofoam deli container and cut a hole in the bottom and light up the container. You may need to eat some potato salad or cole slaw first. Don't get anything with a tomato-based sauce, as it will leave an orange cast in the lights. If you have a dSLR and can process camera raw images, you will benefit greatly by underexposing so that your histogram is empty up top, then add some fill light in raw processing, which will move the darker pixels lighter or adjust the curves to do more or less the same thing. You really don't need to have a really high contrast picture, otherwise it will assault the eyes and you won't be able to appreciate the details as much.

Shiny, high-relief medals can indeed be quite challenging. This one took a while, and I think I used reflected light.

DUIGUY

Bump for new pics critique. However ya spell it.

Barndog

awesome piece...and is that an original box the medal is sitting in? You know that you suck, don't you?

messydesk

Improving. I see a little more detail in the shadowy areas on both sides. Still too much contrast on the side with the ladies, though. The other side now shows the appearance of the field quite well. Lighten up the heavy shadows just a little by adding some more soft light at 4:00 and I think you'll have a keeper of that side. Note the differences in the outer sides of the torsos of the cherubs. You want the cherub on the right to have more the appeaance of the one on the left.

dorkkarl

digi-pic seems really bright, but looks like a very kool piece!

K S

DUIGUY

<< <i>awesome piece...and is that an original box the medal is sitting in? You know that you suck, don't you? >>



Box is in bad shape but all there.