Posting Registry Set selections

canadacolornut

First of all, since I'm a newbie, I'd appreciate some comments by regulars on whether or not it's even
appropriate to establish a thread like this and keep adding to it or not.

Unless it's not, it's a real benefit to me to be able to get selections on a link that I can send to friends
and family members so they don't have to download emails to view them. Since I'm trying to
encourage more interest in collecting it may be helpful in that respect.

Next, on the presentation of them, I am trying to get the photo to reflect the way the coin looks
when tilted under light. I know that most members don't take that approach because the coin
may look over saturated. I had a discussion on this with an associate who said that the one I'm
posting here looked "juiced". I took him over to the light table, tilted and rotated the coin and
he commented that the photo pretty much reflected what he saw under those conditions.

So what's the protocol please, if there is one? I can teach the world round or flat, whatever's
appropriate in the forum.

So if you have comments on that aspect it would be helpful to know and thanks.

1835 English Groat PCGS MS 65

lordmarcovan

Oh, you need not worry about this thread being deemed inappropriate.

Then again, maybe I should have said something rude, because I'm jealous of your photography skill.

Lovely groat, and great photography. You'll fit right in here.

StubbyMcNumbthumbs

Wow! Nice Farthing reciprocal! Nice pics, too!



William IV coins are cool.

JCMhouston

I too like the William IIII pieces, all of them are tough, especially in such high grades. And the photography skills are not so bad for an amateur.

canadacolornut

Thanks for the supportive comments.

I really appreciate it...

WWW

Killer coin and your imaging skills are progressing nicely. (It does not looked juiced.)

coinpictures

Such a thread is perfectly fine. I have one for my fractional farthings, and another for my U.S. half cents on the LightSide.

I can see how someone might think the obverse is juiced; the lighting glare is a bit harsh, which contributes. Try backing off the lighting a bit and/or diffusing it. I like the reverse as is.

WorldTypeSet

Great looking coin. Post some more eye candy for us, will ya?

canadacolornut

Thanks Paul, and others who commented.

I'm going to redo the obverse and pull the brightness down a bit as coinpictures suggested-for the
Registry set picture at least-and I agree that the reverse looks more natural.

Thanks again....

IloiloKano

First let me say I am not questioning whether or not the images accurately reflect the look of the coin in hand; I completely accept your assertion that they do.

However, after viewing histograms of all three color channels for both images, I strongly suspect saturation has been adjusted, though not excessively. There is simply too much dynamic range (as well as slight clipping - moreso on the dated side) in all three channels for me to accept that the images weren't tweaked.

Also, using the Auto-Levels function in Photoshop on these images produces only the slightest change in the histograms. I'd bet money that Photoshop (manual) Levels has been used. Either that or mixing an Auto-Leveled image with the original image, with the Auto-Leveled image heavily weighted, in order to produce a higher saturated image.