Fun with the cell phone again...

Stork

I've had this for a bit, and I can't remember who sold it to me.

Stork

And, just for fun, a recent eBay buy for what I consider a smokin' hot deal.



I can't find too much about this one (yet), but the artist is Georges Prud'homme.

lordmarcovan

What kind of phone? Nice pix, from what I can see of them on my horrid connection (the lower halves of the images still haven't loaded yet- suddenly I feel like it's 1999 and I'm on a dialup connection again.)



Perhaps the jeton came from FilthyBroke? He had a nice collection of jetons, including some octagonals, which he broke up and sold on the forums perhaps two or three years ago, and then he went Yeti on us. I miss him.

lordmarcovan

PS- both are great. The second one is sweet- love the roses, too.



How'd you get the true black backgrounds, if these are cellphone pix? They look awesome.

Stork

I'm using my iPhone (6 or 6s, I should know that but oh well). I'm currently experimenting with a white box set up and trying to find a good light. It works for my medals and coins no smaller than a quarter.



The photos share immediately to my computer as long as I have wifi. I'm using an online photo editor called PicMonkey



There is a free version and a premium, and does almost anything I would need. It's been reasonably easy to figure out for a non-techie such as me.



Someday I'll try for a real camera set up so I can do the detail work, but it mostly works for now.

STLNATS

+1 of LM, both great pieces and pix.

LochNESS

great photo skills

brg5658

Those photos are FANTASTIC for phone images. Best I have seen...as you noted, phones struggle the most with smaller coins...but for medals...wow!

Stork

Thanks . When it works, it works. When it doesn't ugh. You should have heard me last night trying to take a photo of a slabbed medal. I bought it that way but it may have to get liberated. Still haven't gotten a decent shot and without a real camera (or real skill to use a real camera) I am at the mercy of whatever tweaks my phone feels like doing. It's not consistent enough.

STLNATS

I am at the mercy of whatever tweaks my phone feels like doing. It's not consistent enough.



The great thing about digital photos is that it's easy (and basically free) to take a bunch of photos until something you're happy with pops out. Not terribly efficient or consistent but sometimes "whatever works" is just fine. Certainly the two you've posted are really excellent.

LochNESS

On that note, if it makes you feel any better, there are many professional photographers who purposefully snap thousands of images per event to better their odds of capturing "the decisive moment." This is a huge departure from the days of film. So it's understandable if it feels counter-intuitive, because it's not how things were done before. But it's totally accepted in the field today as a 'style' of shooting.

pruebas

Love that jeton!