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A Fellow Board Member's eBay Auction. Did I Tweek the Photo for the Better?

braddickbraddick Posts: 24,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I happened upon the eBay auction.

Just for fun, I spent a moment and tweeked the photo. Did I improve it or is the actual auction photo better?

Here's my attempt:
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    I prefer the original, hopefully "untweeked", one. You didn't really overdo anything really though.
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  • BodieBodie Posts: 282
    Very close. I would go with the original.
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  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
    I'de go with the original JMO---Tom
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds fair.
    I tried it with just one other:
    eBay auction

    My tweeking of the photo:
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  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
    Just shows a red X no photo

    Now I see it
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  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
    On this one i'm going with yours, It just stands out more and draws my attention but then i'm still a rookie at this---Tom
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  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419

    Pat,

    Taking your photo I just bumped it a tiny bit more. Added a degree of gamma and brightness.

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    Did I over do it?


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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    People don't like tweaked photos at all if they know they're tweaked. I like the after better because the original was washed out. But the word tweak scared everyone off. I've found that with custom white balance and good lighting I get good saturation and don't have to tweak at all and can state as such in my auctions. In other works, I spend my effort before the shutter release rather than after...
  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419

    Kind of a twaek after or a tweak before thing. Depends on how you look at it. LOL!

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  • sTONERsTONER Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭
    not bad Pat,, this sellers photo,s are pretty much dead on,, he,s still a good guy,,image
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  • buffnutbuffnut Posts: 933
    I'll probably light the fire to my own burning at the stake here, but I prefer the tweaked photos. I honestly see nothing wrong with adjusting lighting levels and such, as to render the photo more like the coin in hand. Isn't that the entire point of a picture anyway- to show the best likeness of the coin, without turning it into something it is not? Now I do agree wholeheartedly that if you take the paintbrush and apply a neon purple and green zebra pattern to a brown coin, then we have issues. However steps taken that show the coin as it truly is in hand I have no problem with, and prefer.
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  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    Those are my photos/coins.

    When I take photos I use a dome with a Reveal bulb (this is what gives it the haze) and some incandesent light as well. No tweaking on my part.

    BTW Pat and all.........

    What did you EXACTLY do to eliminate the haze?
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Braddick's has to be more accurate than the original. The original's white balance is obviously off, the NGC insert being pink instead of white.
  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    One type of Reveal bulb is sorta round and the glass appears to be tinted just a tad. The light gives off a pinkish or peachy/ Rose' glow. It looks like JB may be using that type Reveal bulb. Makes you not have so MUCH White ... actually quite attractive.

    Braddick's is nice but DABIGKAHUNA's makes the coin appear to have been Photoshopped to some degree. (JMHO)
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  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    BTW Pat's first attempt is as close to the original as it can be.
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,819 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>BTW Pat's first attempt is as close to the original as it can be. >>



    Here's another tryt on a different auction:

    The Coin:
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    The Auction:
    eBay auction LINK

    Edited to add: (PM sent on your first question...)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks APT to me.... (Artificial Photo Toning)... image Cheers, RickO
  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419
    DABIGKAHUNA's makes the coin appear to have been Photoshopped to some degree

    Boom, no doubt.
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    What I have found is that it's fun and also a useful tool to to use on pic's that are washed out. Even a number of Heritages pic's show up that way. I gives me a better idea on what I might be bid bidding on.

    I tink that was Pat's point?

    I couldn't take a good shot of a nicely toned coin to save myself!
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