This Ebay picture is misleading right?

Coinflip

One shot is the sellers supplied photo to an item,with no returns, the other is from another source. SAME COIN
Misleading? Photo doctoring? Use of lighting? Are my eyes going bad?

BustHalfBrian

I would assume the bottom photo is more accurate. The top one is dark and distorted.

Wolf359

Photo quality of coins on ebay is horrendous. Many photos on ebay are intentionally bad to hide flaws, especially the angle or moonshot ones.

Coinflip

I cracked the case,
one has color, the sellers, has none, scary



bottom is dull ,its supposed to be an NGC brown label

19Lyds

It's all in the lighting friend.

I've heard that with the proper diffused lighting that any proof coin can be made to appear to have deep cameo contrast.

Check out this eBay Seller.

bsshog40

The bottom one looks photoshoped to me. Zooming in, it looks like a poor attempt to get all of the glare out. A straight on shot of a proof will always give dark fields but will usually hide most blemishes. It may have been a small attempt try to give both appearances of the coin.

bigjpst

Looks like they used a filter that creates a negative, or black and white image.
Most photo editing software will do this. If there are more photos in the listing that are not altered in this way, it may be an attempt to show the fields without glare, or show the slight cameo that the photographer couldn't capture in a direct shot. If there are no other pictures, then I think you are right, and he is trying to fool or mislead any potential buyers.

magikbilly

I just got up, but I can see digital artifacts in the borders between the "cam" and the black. It is not natural IMO. The "Grab" tool was used and poorly. Look at the "texture" of the plastic in the bottom photo around the coin and then the coin - two different fabrics. Coin is inserted I think. This guy needs to learn the XXXXX tool and, of course, just be honest of course. Photoshop. These are my opinions from the photos.

I don't know this seller, I don't know how he makes his living...my gosh now I am quoting Michael Corleone now, talking about "Merle", Connie's sister...second Godfather.

Eric

Edit - Bottom photo is inserted using feather tool. Good eye with the color. I do not believe the surfaces of that bottom photo at all. I like frosting too, but this kind looks like it can be applied to a cake. Enlargement (big) and view in negative with over-sharpening should reveal all. I did quick - Photoshop IMO.

LindeDad

As mentioned before different lighting on proofs give highly different results.

Pokermandude

rec78

The top one appears to be a scan. I cannot tell if it is misleading without seeing the coin in person.