Hard to me a real picture telephone

Same coins, looks difference,
Mine questions is what do i wrong
In dark black ground looks the coin light patina , and i lightback ground looks it dark patina.
In the hands are the detail far beter.

i want make a real picture of mine coin

Thanks

 

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Try a scanner. Scan area, 2 x 2 inches, 600dpi. Lighten the image one notch if necessary. Do NOT scan 8 x 11 and crop away all the excess, doesn't work.

 

Your camera meter sees the light background and makes the overall photo darker on the second photo. The dark background on the first has the opposite effect. Some cameras allow setting the meter only to read the center spot; others would allow giving an additional stop of exposure more ore less as you instruct. The easy answer would be to use a photo postprocessing program to make the image what you want. The best answer is to shoot as accurately as possible and the fine tune in postprocessing.

 

I always try to photograph my coins on a background that does not reflect light. I suggest you do the same (no white). Also, try two lamps and move them around until what you see in your camera is what you see on the coin.

 

Do i have use a lamp to making a picture, not sun light. thanks

 

Can i make good picture, with the coin in mine hand

 

ro, try what doug suggests. if you can't edit contrast and brightness on your phone, upload the file into this and try to edit...

http://pixlr.com/editor/


once you upload the picture, use the "adjustment" tap to quickly change.

 

Sunlight is actually better, although much less convenient. Set the coin on a tray table, just at the edge of a tree shadow (with the coin in the shadow but facing the sunlight). Pure full-spectrum light and perfectly diffused illumination.

 

This. Best thing to do if you don't want to or can't manually adjust exposure settings on your camera (phone?) is use a gray background.

Also, a lamp or two will bring out more of the detail, as you'll get better shadow definition than diffuse daylight will give you. You can also control the direction of the light.

 

Yes, you should use lamps with CFL bulbs as natural light throws off the color. Also, you should not hold the coin; you should put it on something flat and make sure your camera is at the same angle as the coin.

 

Pixlr, great website. Will experiment this coming week.

 

pixlr is nice!


here's the first pic edited a bit in the program, i don't know what the coin looks like it hand...i just moved the sliders around to make it look different.

 

Domitian

 

lol

 

Nice web site tomorrow you see the right coin . you all see picture In hand. Chrismat looks good, i mis only the good details from the minerva

 

Is this what the coin looks like in hand? If so, you now have it figured out. If not, you need to play with it some more. Either the lighting or the camera meter.

 

Thanks All

 

only problem is, a camera that doesn't have metering adjustments (or focal point choices) usually wouldn't have exposure compensation either.

 

Much beter

 

Nice coin, ro ... this last image looks like a winner