OK. Here is the last for today: OLD NEW VESPASIAN AR Denarius OBVERSE: IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII, laureate head right REVERSE: AVGVR TRI POT, sacrificial implements: simpulum, aspergillum, jug & lituus Struck at Rome, 72/3AD 2.6g, 18mm RIC 356
A nice Titus: OLD: NEW: TITUS Billon Tetradrachm OBVERSE: AVTOK TITOY - laureate head right REVERSE: Bust of Serapis right, LB before Struck at Alexandria, Egypt, Year 2 = 79-80 AD 12.7g, 25mm Dattari 426, BMC 2741, RPC 2464
hope you don't mind if i jump in, i didn't want to do another thread just for this coin but i did want to post it. it's partially your fault for making me want to reshoot some of my older coins anyway. my often posted heraclius and heraclius constantine coin. these are actually the 2nd edition "improved" pics, edited in photobucket. the original pics were worse. new pic.. color is much closer to "in hand", about spot on actually.
Before I retire for the day, I have just one more I thought looked so much better and I would like to share. I mean now the facial features of Virtus are visible: OLD: NEW: TRAJAN AR Denarius OBVERSE: IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC, laureate draped bust right REVERSE: P M TR P COS VI P P SPQR, Virtus standing right holding spear & parazonium, foot on helmet Struck at Rome, 99-100 AD 2.8g, 19mm RIC 355v, C 274c anecdotal
With some consistency your old photos kept the light off of the face in favor of the back of the head. Of the bunch, I'd say the Alexandrian Titus is a great coin well photographed. Now you make me feel I should reshoot some that had troubled me before. I reimaged every coin I owned after I bought my first digital SLR in 2006. I do not know how many images are from that first year.
Thanks Doug. Any compliment from a photographer like you makes me feel good about my imaging. As of last night, I think I'm nearly half done re-imaging, but even some of the newer images I want to go back and try again when I finish off all the others. My biggest problems seems to be the over-cleaned, bright and shiny silver coins. No matter where I put the light the reflection is too much in the picture.
I took this sestertius out today, to take a picture of it with my smallest coin (in another thread), and decided to re-shoot it as well. It's my favorite sestertius - nothing rare, but the sharpness and overall eye appeal is great, and this new image is much closer to the color in hand.
Is Bucephalus still on this side of the divide? If not, you do know that all, and I mean ALL, dogs go to heaven (and some cats too).
Bucephalus was my basset-baby. She passed a few years ago (25 years). My avatar is Blue, who is a Basset/Beagle/Australian Shepherd mix... mentality and temperament as a Basset...she's my baby! And she loves collecting coins too...she always lays under my table as I am working on them. Will anyone be at the Raleigh Coin Show this weekend?
When I first got married I had a hunting beagle named Lady. She wasn't a house dog, but probably the best rabbit dog I ever owned until one of my "friends" accidentally shot her when we were hunting in a thicket. All hounds have wonderful personalities.
Ugh... that is tough. Sorry about your rabbit dog! Hunting rabbits, I just flushed them out when I stumbled and stammered around in the fields where I grew up. Kept me from shooting my dogs!
Oh to be clear, my friend didn't kill Lady, just wounded her and she lived to a ripe old age. She just never hunted again. The sound of a gun going off would make her whimper and stay on my heels.
Poor thing! had a dachshund run over when he was 6, hematoma on the brain, walked in tight circles, took 6 months to reteach him to walk correctly. Lived on to 17! But to get the thread back on track: As I had discussed with you before... I am just beginning to catalog my minor hoard, and picked up some coin photography books...your photos (before and after) are an inspiration. Just need the time to sit down and catalog/photo my Roman Republicans. I have only a couple slabbed... how do you photo them? (Yes, I know, start with a HAMMER and free them...)
Bing , Sorry you had a meltdown in your computer. I'm no expert but your photos look much better now and you get to inventory your collection all over again.I'd get an external hard drive for the replacement.
I have zero slabbed coins and have only purchased one coin entombed in plastic. I broke him out the day I got it in the mail. So, I cannot answer your question, but I would way there are those out there who have imaged coins in plastic so there must be some thought on it somewhere. Already done. In fact, I have an external drive and I am saving to the "cloud" as well. The re-imaging is a job, but it has turned into a fun job. I am trying to take the best photos possible of course, but I am also looking at and handling coins that I haven't in a long long time. It was more time consuming and a real hassle putting my catalog back together from pieces I was able to find in various locations. But the re-imaging I am kinda having some fun doing so (until I get to a bright silver denarius that just will not let me photograph it).
