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In hand photos of coins vs. the True View or other professional set up shots

ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
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How do some of these amazing rainbow type coins in the True View pics look like in hand under normal lighting? I love toned coins but isn't the professional imaging, perfectly balanced and placed lighting, and 12 inch image sizes adding quite a bit of punch and wow factor? I am not referring to digitally punched up images but the well-done ones we all admire. Just wondering if anyone wanted to show a normal in hand shot of their coin in regular light in comparison to the glamour shot of a great image. I would love to see the comparison and what the coin really looks like in hand if any of us pulled it out of the vault to take a look. I bet we would be suprised at the difference.

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  • FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,247 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In my experience some of them look the same and some don't.
    I have seen coins in pics and then gotten them in hand and had a hard time telling if it was the same coin.
    Some coins look great no matter what and some only look good in pics with the right lighting, angle, lens, etc.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To sort of answer your question, look at all the pictures in robec's Lincoln cent proof toner contest. The subject coin has whichever "look" to it in hand that the light used to view it gives it, and using only one picture to represent it isn't giving the complete story, no matter which picture is used. This is especially true for toned copper.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
    I guess now that I am thinking about this more is what is most important in the appearance of a coin? What it looks like in hand, or what it looks like in a glamour shot? We all drool and praise and say how beautiful all of these pics are of the crazy toners out there, but it hand they often look lackluster. So do we want to own a picture of a coin we can hang on a wall or, a coin that is naturally appealing in hand?
  • coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    my pics.......



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    glamour shot......


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