Some pics I've taken of my Morgans. All comments on photography or coins welcome.

anablep · July 11, 2005 2:52PM

First time taking and posting original pictures. Please go easy.

ANACS 1886 MS64

ANACS 1899 MS63

ANACS 1881-O MS64

More to come!

anablep · July 11, 2005 3:00PM

A few more:
ANACS 1885 MS63 PL

ANACS 1882 MS65

ANACS 1879-S MS65

coinbuf · July 11, 2005 3:05PM

Nice pics and some very frosty coins there

Chris

Myqqy · July 11, 2005 3:12PM

I like the pics, and think the coins look very pretty! I've always loved colorful rim tones on morgans.......

ER · July 11, 2005 3:15PM

dragon · July 11, 2005 3:19PM

Nice pieces, they all look to have the type of rim color caused by the older NGC and ANACS holders.

MikeInFL · July 11, 2005 3:39PM

The lighting and exposure looks good to me. A very good first effort!

A few constructive comments:

-- Looks like the shots are oversharpened to my eye. Turning down the in-camera sharpening or any post processing sharpening will help.
-- The focus is off on some of the shots. See how the top of the first coin is in focus and the bottom isn't? This means the coin and camera are not in the same plane. A level will help solve this problem.
-- The white balance looks off -- too cold (blue).

Explain your setup and equipment and we can help more.

Have fun...Mike

anablep · July 11, 2005 11:05PM

Thanks for all the advice and compliments!

My camera (Canon A95) is mounted with a clamp on a ring stand about 5 inches from the coin outside in natural light when I take the pictures. The coin is at a 25-30 degree angle as is the camera. As MikeInFL stated, the angle must be off as there is some blur at the bottoms of some of the pictures.

How do I correct the white balance?

stev32k · July 11, 2005 11:38PM

Here is one of your images with the white point set in photoshop. This assumes that the background is white. Not seeing the coin in hand I don't know if the color is accurate or not. Does it really have this much red? I also did some noise reduction. What is your ISO setting? If you can post the EXIF data from your camera it might help.

anablep · July 12, 2005 12:17AM

The background is white (they are all in ANACS holders).

There is quite a bit of red & blue in that particular coin. That's very accurate though there seems to be some red reflection coming from somewhere.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by EXIF data. ISO was set at 50 as I was outside.

mgoodm3 · July 12, 2005 12:33AM

nice pics. as mentioned earlier there are some focus probs. Make sure you use as high as f-stop as you can. That will help. Good detail otherwise. The contrast of the coins is a bit washed out. That's from using natural light which is diffuse.

Nice coins.

max911 · July 12, 2005 12:38AM

Hi, What kind of mirror do you have with the ANACS 1885 MS63 PL. Can't tell by the pictures. Photo's don't show mirrors well.

carl · July 12, 2005 12:53AM

I like the photos just the way they are. I also use outdoor lighting rather than all kinds of light stands. Don't know what you used for a background but I find that using the top of a black Bar-B-Que grill works best as long as it's a flat black and nothing cooking naturally.
Photos appear a little large on my screen. Are they less than 50KB each? Your clarity is great as from what I see. Anything better than that is getting carried away. I usually hand hold my comeral and am lucky when one comes out clear so I take a few hundred photos and just delete what I don't like. Great thing about a digital world. My camera will take about 328 photos on a little over 3 meg pix per photo on a 250MB card. Only 168 photos at 6.3 megs. What is the capacity of your camera? I may have to look for a bigger card so I can take thousands of pictures of each coin or maybe just use a tripod. Good luck with your piture taking. If you get any better I'll just hire you to take my pictures.

stev32k · July 12, 2005 12:56AM

EXIF data is attached to every photo you take - it's part of the file. It is information on the shooting parameters, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance setting, sharpening, etc. That information is being stripped from your photos in post processing or by your hosting site.

anablep · July 12, 2005 2:30AM

max911: The mirrors are fairly deep on the 85. About 5 inches. Hard to tell through the slab.

carl: The pics are hosted on another site and are larger than 50KB. I have the camera set at the maximum resolution 2592x1944 and still get more than 300 pictures from it b/c I've got a 512 mb card and 5.0 megapixel camera. I've tried holding the coins or camera and I don't get good pictures so I've got the camera and coins rigged to the ring stand and there's no movement.

mgoodm3 and stev32k: thanks for the info. I'll work on some more pics.

TorinoCobra71 · July 12, 2005 5:54AM

<< <i>Nice pics and some very frosty coins there

What he said, cant believe more of those werent given the PL designation............

TorinoCobra71

anablep · July 12, 2005 8:25AM

ANACS is very strict with PL designations. Many coins from other holders I have submitted (NGC, SEGS, PCI) that were PL in those holders were not in ANACS' opinion.

JRH · July 12, 2005 11:25AM

Nice coins and good photos.

I personally like the photos a little smaller so that you can get an idea of the whole coin at once. If the photo is too big it seems harder to look at it "as a whole". It still needs to be big enough to show detail, but a bit smaller than what you have is better, in my opinion.

Some pics I've taken of my Morgans. All comments on photography or coins welcome.

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