How to give a coin photographer nightmares...
lsica
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Brilliant proof...
With iridescent multi color toning that changes when you move it in the light...
With some of the best colors in front of the profile (if you get enough light to show the profile, you wash out the color)...
Philately will get you nowhere....
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Especially a gold proof
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Copper is worse. I could add "and it's a cameo" but that would just be sadistic
Tough Tough Tough shooting proofs... just keep practicing.
WS
Imagine using film.
You are evil 😉
Retired photographer, mostly film. Processing 16 rolls of 35mm film in an 8 reel tank is tough, especially color slide film. Done as a photographer. Great jobs and experiences, but it ruined a perfectly good hobby so I turned to coins as a hobby as I had always been interested in them.
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Smudge,
Welcome to the island of misfit professions.
LOL.
Down boys, down,
just making light of what many people are going through.
Me, Offset Printing, 45 years.
Negs ..A thing of the past. Remember when you went to the silver recovery unit.
Free money!
Never did that, silver recovery thing.
Large scale neg processor.
lots of silver removed from film gathering in a recovery unit looking like sand.
Many lunches were baught.
Send it to Phil at PCGS.
The problem with colorful proofs is you need vertical lighting to bring our colors and mirrors. But with slabs, glare reflection gets in the way.
You can screw around with axial lighting (it doesn't work with slabs). Play games by tilting the coin (and mess up focus). But bottom line is you need to shoot raw.
TrueView is your best choice.
Lance.
Now I know why I'm nightmare prone.
My experience with axial lighting is that it washes out color. And tilting the coin makes stuff looked egg shaped
I've even experimented with stretching the image of a tilted coin back to round in the computer but could never get a realistic looking result. And I've tried combining images from different lighting angles but problem is shadows fall in different places when you do that so combination is near impossible.
Ya. I wonder what their secrets are. Even their adversaries down in Sarasota don't seem to have their skills with multi iridescent colored proofs I suspect it involves incantations and spells.
No issues with copper or gold proofs... Yet colorfully toned silver I've at times had to walk away from a few times till finally getting the lucky shot.
A quick dip in the Weimans will solve your problem. Congrats!
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Since I managed to avoid the coin photography fever (through focused efforts), I have not had to experience these frustrations...
I almost got sucked in...at one point even purchased a table top setup...then saw I would need even more.. and said to myself "Now you are spending good money that could go towards a nice firearm." That did it... 
Cheers, RickO
No secrets. TrueViews are shot with raw coins.
Lance.
Even raw proofs with iridescent color aren't easy
On a Seated or Barber (flat field) design...
In a trashed slab.
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Anybody try using tilt-shift lenses to correct the image of tilted coins? I’ve always been curious. These are of course expensive specialty lenses, but they can be rented too.
They work well for straightening out buildings. Never used them for copy work.
axial will do the trick.
your light source and exit to camera lens must be dead on and should be adjustable
u need to experiment
When it’s behind plastic, yes very difficult. Raw? No problem.
Some just play better than others. This is through a slab. 64DMPL.
I get naked
Axial lighting? That’s a very attractive image.