Photo Friday - Wiener Cathedral Medals

PCGSPhoto

Happy Friday, everyone!
I thought I'd give the new forum software a whirl with a Wiener medal. These are large, intricate, high relief medals that are always impressive and very difficult to do justice to in a photograph.

dadams

That is an awesome photo with astounding detail.

ajaan

Fantastic image Phil.

PCGSPhoto

Here's Westminster Abbey

messydesk

Since these are crossing your desk, am I right to assume that PCGS is holdering them now? I would do stereoscopic photos or animations of these to do them justice and capture the magnitude of the depth.

Boosibri

That is the best quality photo that I have seen posted on this forum

PCGSPhoto

Thanks, everyone. Here's St Marks Basilica in Venice. We are grading them, and they go in our "5oz" holder. We'll grade most medals these days if there's an official reference to the medals (like in a book of medals for example).

Apologies to people with slow internet connections... but they're worth the wait.

Weiss

Dude.

Stork

Whoa...those are superb!!!

Isn't it fantastic how photo friendly the new forum is?!

PCGSPhoto

One more to take us into the weekend. Enjoy! This was perhaps the hardest one because I wanted to show how Rouen cathedral leaps off the medal, but also the pillars on the reverse are so glossy and so numerous that it was easy for the glare to be really distracting.

Zohar

Exceptional!

Jackthecat1

Beautiful medals. I have been impressed with the extremely high relief and detail of the ones I have seen in person.

Swampboy

What a treat for these old eyes.
Well done!

Stork

Side question...but photo related. Are there any restrictions on the size of files to upload?

PCGSPhoto

I'm not sure of any restrictions. I was actually expecting the files to be downscaled or compressed in some way when I uploaded them, but no. Full size files, each one over 3mb. It's a photo free for all now.

Stork

@PCGSPhoto said:
I'm not sure of any restrictions. I was actually expecting the files to be downscaled or compressed in some way when I uploaded them, but no. Full size files, each one over 3mb. It's a photo free for all now.

I hope it stays that way.

I noticed one post where the photos appear as thumbnails--easy to click on and see so no problem, but they did not 'embed' (or whatever is the right word). Is it due to the way it was uploaded (choose file vs. dropping an image)? Or, perhaps you are flying blind like us

hchcoin

I love that medal

JKT

Incredible pictures, Phil!

Further evidence of the reason I love True View service, and get it for every coin I submit now.

MauiLisa

Very pretty medals!

bigmarty58

Impressive images, love the 3-D effect on the reverse.

garrynot

Thanks for posting. I always enjoy seeing them

zompels

Superb images ! tremendous eye appeal Medals !

asheland

Great thread!

mrstevesloan

Awesome photos Phil! I'm going to post these on the PCGS Facebook account.

Weiss

Killer, man.

Can you post one in silver?

Zoins

Very impressive photos! Thanks for sharing them!

Weiss

Nobody wants to see my Wiener? C'mon! Surely someone out there wants to see my Wiener!

lordmarcovan

Nice to see these. Breathtaking medals... AND photography, of course.

I hope you'll make the "Photo Friday" a semi-regular thing, Phil, if your schedule allows it.

pmac

The Saint Mark's is most appropriate with Dan Brown's Inferno movie just having been released.

Stork

@lordmarcovan said:
Nice to see these. Breathtaking medals... AND photography, of course.

I hope you'll make the "Photo Friday" a semi-regular thing, Phil, if your schedule allows it.

A most excellent suggestion--should time allow for this.

And, in case you are reading this, any consideration for a photography sub-forum? That would be fantastic, especially for newbie photogs.

lordmarcovan

@Stork said:

@lordmarcovan said:
Nice to see these. Breathtaking medals... AND photography, of course.

I hope you'll make the "Photo Friday" a semi-regular thing, Phil, if your schedule allows it.

A most excellent suggestion--should time allow for this.

And, in case you are reading this, any consideration for a photography sub-forum? That would be fantastic, especially for newbie photogs.

A coin photography subforum would be a SPLENDID idea, if you ask me! Could be a valuable resource for the forums, and might save on people repeatedly having to repost answers to the most common FAQs...

Swampboy

I am always in awe of the talents of engravers all the way back to the ancients
but it akways seems to me Weiner was on another plane altogether.