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Re: Axial Lighting is like magic for coin photography
Haha, you're correct that it's $250/yr for photoshop. Experimenting with raw proof coins, @FlyingAl's right, it's like easy mode. These are almost straight out of camera (just had to pull down the hi… (View Post)1 -
Re: Axial Lighting is like magic for coin photography
Continuing my experiments: This is a 2 light overhead: This is a true axial image at 45 degrees: I used the ACR dehaze to get rid of the glare, the 2 different images are at base exposure, and bumped… (View Post)1 -
Re: Axial Lighting is like magic for coin photography
Nice! Here's that same dime from an earlier post, first is SooC, then the second is some camera raw dehaze + bump black levels (View Post)2 -
Re: Axial Lighting is like magic for coin photography
Great tip @messydesk. I think partially my issue is I'm using a cube beamsplitter and the internal reflection of the light source on the top surface is being projected as glare/haze (akin to what @ys… (View Post)1 -
Re: Axial Lighting is like magic for coin photography
Here's a try with 2 lights directed at the center point of the reflector: (these are 2 different coins) And I 3d printed a small pyramid to test for lighting evenness, the white spots at the corners … (View Post)1