Multiple Photos of the Same Coin Thread!

@Zoins said:
Great examples @lermish!

For the Trade Dollar, I really like @PhilArnold's version which showcase the luster and metallic surfaces!

Thanks! Re the T$, The previous owner's photo was taken specifically to highlight the chopmarks. Phil's pic is among the most accurate pictures (representing in hand appearance) that I've ever seen. He did a fantastic job.

Looks like Phil is using his TV lighting setup at GC, but his replacement is using a different setup with more diffusion. Phil's has more direct reflection, so gives a brighter field and surfaces, better feature edge contrast, and better "deep" color presentation.

@spyglassdesign said:
For the multiple shots idea... I took the first shot a few weeks ago but wasn't really happy with it. The follow up shot was after monkeying around with lighting for 4 hours. The second shot is closer to in hand, and the coin is highly reflective on the devices, which makes even the lowest level lighting tend to blow it out. These shots also show the toning more distinctly than the luster, so perhaps I should experiment more with the luster...

The only changes below are lighting!

How about adding as nice of a reverse photo please , thanks

Somebody firmly believes in this one.

@Zoins said:

What do you use today if not a DSLR?

I’ve just been using my iPhone 12 Pro, it’s so much easier and quicker. The pictures from my iPhone don’t look as good if you make them too big, but if I stick to side by side trueview style, they almost come out as good as DSLR. And can almost get the colors to pop as good as DSLR if the lights are angled just right. Black and white cameo shots come out just as good. Heres a few examples where the iPhone pictures look good to me and most would think they were from DSLR, but not all of the ones I took with iPhone come out as good. It’s like I went through a learning curve when I photographed about 150 slabbed coins that didn’t have trueviews and now I don’t like a bunch of the earlier ones but too lazy to reshoot them.




Oh, and to make this post into a multiple photos of same coin like this thread is about, here’s some pictures of the Roosevelt where I used different lighting and techniques:

@Zoins said:
There are lots of threads that mention multiple photos of the same coin, and I'm especially a fan of multiple TrueViews of the same coin. Here's a thread for all of these

I just ran across this wonderful pattern coin (J-1755) with two TrueViews for enjoyment!

As for provenance, there's no provenance on CoinFacts or Cert Verification, and I couldn't locate this in the HA or SB archives.

Ref: https://www.pcgs.com/cert/40563194

It would be great if the CoinFacts page could show multiple TrueViews like these, which have vastly different photography styles.

US patterns.com states "
"....
Only 2 examples are believed to exist as follows:
1) Bolt-Stacks 4/66?, Stacks 76 ANA, Ivy 10/76 FPL, unknown intermediaries, Superior 7/03, Simpson-Heritage 9/20, GreatCollections.com 2/19/23 - PCGS65,
2) Farouk, 66 ANA, B/M 10/1987, Superior Auction 88, Superior 10/89:3388, Heritage 6/2002, Heritage 11/2003, Heritage 1/2004, Heritage 4/2009, Heritage 1/2011, Heritage 1/2012, Goldberg 1/2014, Goldberg 6/2020, Goldberg 6/21, GreatCollections.com 10/23/2022, GreatCollections.com 12/23/2023 – PCGS66, ...."

The image you posted is of the 1st provenance above