Check these photos. Added a different one. What dou you guys think??? Large photos.

morgandollar1878

I got an old Bogen copy stand over the weekend and have been playing around taking pics and combining them The pics below have not been doctored. The only variable I changed when photographing the coins was the lighting intensity and angles. I tried to put up a little variety instead of all the same denomination. Tell me what you guys think. Any advice is appreciated, especially lighting.

Big time revision, and I am sure I still have a little work to do. Even this one seems to be a touch blurry. However I think that I am going to have to change the settings on my SLR to fix the focus problem.









And one more just for simplicity sake. I am going to try to come up with something for a backround that is not so distracting to the coin and try to make the images larger on the background.

stinkinlincoln

Im no expert, but they look abit blurry to me.


I like where you are going with this though. I think with some fine tuning, youll be one of the other forum pic greats!

smet

I think the pictures are fairly good. But, the backgrounds are highly distracting to me.

morgandollar1878

<< <i>Im no expert, but they look abit blurry to me. >>





I was actually thinking that they were just a touch out of focus also. It's a little on the difficult side when taking a photo through the slab.

morgandollar1878

Anyone else??? Where's Blu62vette???

cinman14

I think that 1886-P needs a new home....

Robb

To much editing, not enough coin. Keep It Simple, Stupid

CopperWire

Background and text is too busy. The coin is the subject, keep it that way. great start.

TonedCoinTrader

Coins sides are too far apart, Hate the type style...

other than that is great

MrSpud

If the coins were made bigger and the text made smaller they would be pretty nice.

cars

Yes, Less background more metal

morgandollar1878

IMHO I thought that the coins were too small for the background, however I could not get them any larger than what they are. If anyone has any ideas about how to change that tell me, I haven't figured it out yet.

messydesk

1. You need to have two lights. Sometimes at least one will need diffusion. There are large parts of the coins that are dark.
2. The 36-D quarter appears to be lit from two different colors of lighting.
3. You need to check your critical focus, as some aren't fully sharp.
4. Back to the drawing board on the layout. Make the coins bigger and the background more low-key. Somewhere, you'll gind a link to the "Spacemonkey" templates for layout. I take a very minimalistic approach, myself. This is 1000x800 pixels, so it is narrower than yours, but the coins are 500 pixels wide. The aspect ratio is 5:4, so I can order standard 8x10 prints of the original 4000x3200 image for a portfolio and the coins are 5" across. Here's an example.

morgandollar1878

<< <i>12. The 36-D quarter appears to be lit from two different colors of lighting. >>




All good info by the way. As for the 36-d Quarter, I am glad you pointed that out. Now that I think of it I had a 3rd light by accident. The top obverse of the quarter was lit with a distant incandesent bulb.

morgandollar1878

Revised pic added to compare with the others.

doh

The best picture you took is the 79-S in the PCGS holder.

SeattleSlammer

nice slab shot!