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Happy Memorial Day weekend! Post a cool coin image....
dizzyfoxx
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Image courtesy of our own Shylock.... Love this one!
...There's always time for coin collecting. 
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dizzyfoxx
Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
Image courtesy of our own Shylock.... Love this one!...There's always time for coin collecting.
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That's way cool. I will try to post something here in the next 12 hours or so...
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God Bless the Men & Women who stand up for our freedom so we can drop to our knees and pray for them!
Tears and sorrow for the ones they left behind.
Happy Memorial Day.
unable to identify this, it seems appropriate for this thread today.
Greg
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As for the photography.....
Nikon D300, Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Macro Lens stacked with 2x Teleconverter & a 1.4x Teleconverter. Images were recorded with a custom White Balance for the color of modeling lights on my Alien Bees 320ws strobe that I used as constant light...never used the strobe, just used the modeling lamps. I had the strobe mounted a little higher than the camera and slightly off to the right on a light stand. I had the camera mounted on another tripod and I used a remote trigger for the camera so I would not have to deal with camera shake when pressing the button. Everything was done near my eye level. I stood the coins up against some books on a book shelf....no reason to kill myself and break my back like some people think they have to do. I also draped a black fabric over everything to prevent the distracting reflections of.....EVERYTHING!....if you want the mirror to reflect black....make it do just that.
Captured at ISO 200 (not sure why I didn't use ISO 100...just not paying attention I guess...same settings from a previous day)
f/22
Exposure was in the neighborhood of 10 seconds depending upon the shot.
I then used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to put the final images together....and do my best at editing.
Probably way more info than you wanted...sorry. I know some people get good results with a bit of planning and a macro mode on their point and shoot cameras but I am not familiar with that. What I did was probably overkill....but I'm happy with it....although there is still a good bit of room for improvement here. The circle field just around the ship is supposed to be gold in color like Elizabeth II's Head but....I kinda screwed it up a little.
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.