Fiji boat

newbiecollector · October 1, 2008 12:27AM

Coin finally arrived. My photo and not my best effort.

Fiji 2006 Columbus

tbirde56 · October 1, 2008 12:41AM

Beautiful coin and great pic!
How could your 'best' effort be any better??

newbiecollector · October 1, 2008 12:45AM

Brad, I took it too fast. Didn't use any lights and didn't even get all the fluff and dust off of it.

Just a quick shot but thanks for your kind comment.

DorkGirl · October 1, 2008 8:44AM

I agree! Nice coin and pics

oldshep · October 1, 2008 11:28PM

Another nifty addition to the fleet!
Nice looking coin.
Shep

newbiecollector · October 1, 2008 11:39PM

Thanks a lot Shep. Great to see you!

lordmarcovan · October 3, 2008 7:00AM

<< <i>My photo and not my best effort. >>

Damn, coulda fooled me. That's a pretty awesome shot (and coin)!

You really nailed that black-and-white DCAM contrast!

You are being too modest, as usual.

BTW, I do not consider it unethical to edit obvious dust specks out of my pictures with photo editing program. I mean, it's not like I am editing out marks or other features of the coin's surface- just the dust specks. I have a time with them on my scanner sometimes, and rather than rescan a coin and get new dust specks in different places, I just zap out the obvious ones with my photo program.

Like... presto.

newbiecollector · October 3, 2008 3:03PM

That is amazing Rob. I had no idea a program could do that.

theboz11 · October 3, 2008 10:44PM

lordmarcovan · October 4, 2008 10:10AM

Oh, photo editing software will do more than just that. I use a relatively primitive program by today's standards. I think it was created for Windows 95! (I know I have been using it since 1999, myself). I haven't yet graduated to Photoshop or anything like that, because I am a creature of habit and this program does 90% of what I want to be able to do.

I just manually went around and zapped each dust particle (copied a little piece of the adjacent fields and patched 'em over the dust specks). It's not like it was a one-click operation or anything.

But on such a terrific photo as that, it would be a shame to have just a few dust particles as an aggravation, since everything else looks so great.

Some of these more sophisticated photo-editing folk could have done just about anything with the coin, including changing the date or whatever.

BCNumismatics · October 5, 2008 4:43PM

Wayne,
That's one cool medal-coin that you've got to report for listing in Krause.

Robertson,
What photo editing program do you use? I've used one downloaded off www.photoscape.org.It is very safe to download,& it only has one cost - FREE!.

Aidan.

newbiecollector · October 5, 2008 7:36PM

I use the free photoscape for cropping and combining photos........mainly because it makes round cropping so easy.
I have never tried any of the other features.

BCNumismatics · October 5, 2008 7:46PM

Wayne,
You should try the 'Combine' feature,which will create a new photo from both original photos,yet you still retain your original photos in 'My Pictures'.You can even change the contrast to sharpen up the photos as well.Of course,you can resize the photos as well with Photoscape.

Aidan.

lordmarcovan · October 6, 2008 7:31AM

BCN, I use MGI Photosuite SE. It came with an old Memorex scanner I got in the late 1990s, and I've gotten so used to it that I've never switched programs.

BCNumismatics · October 6, 2008 7:40AM

Robertson,
Is that program available as a FREE download? Or is it only available on a C.D. that you can get with a flat-bed scanner?

I've got a Canon CanoScan LiDE25 flat-bed scanner that my boss gave to me just after New Year's this year as a belated Christmas present.

Aidan.

lordmarcovan · October 6, 2008 7:45AM

I have a disc for it.

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