Some Coins Re-Imaged

Very nice looking coins! You might want to move the lights around some on the third coin up from here- the 1880- the highlights are kind of blank white. But the others- nicely done!

 

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That's the thing......'lighting' (proper) is essential. I need more practice. And maybe a third light.......two used at 10 & 2 o'clock.

 

How far away from the coin do you place your lights?

 

As you know from the thread on my 1799 dollar, I had problems with bright spots in my initial photos. I have 2 cfl's on goosenecks, so I rotated them slightly away from the coin which dampened the highlights, but then had to double the exposure to make up for the missing illumination. Since the lights are located left and right, this led to some decreased brightness at the top and bottom of the coin. A third light aimed from the "north" might help fill in those areas.

 

Great shots! That '02-O almost looks like a woody..

 

Yeah, that '02-O is gorgeous! Wow.

 

Very nice!! I just bought a used Nikon D800E. I love it!!! And for the price, its an amazing value. I paid $1295.00 for an almost new body. I just ordered a lens and bellows system for it, can't wait to do some serious coin photography with it. I just took my first serious photo with it earlier this week. Not coin related, but it's my other passion (Landscape Photography). It was taken with the Nikon 50mm AF-S 1.4G. This image has been reduced by a factor of nearly 6.

 

I want to know what it will take to take photo's of mine?

 

Great photography Paddy the details are amazing their all awesome the 1898-O & 1880-S are really sharp very talented! Thank's for sharing Love Morgan's

 

The images you refer to are not mine but those taken by green 18. Thought I love to take the credit .

 

Looks like I found her .
Can't wait to get her home .
Heres where her old home was .
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221898970143?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

I keep them high up and pretty close to the lens......

 

That's a breathtaking shot!.. Do you shoot 'Raw' or JPG? I shoot both but I'm yet to decipher Nikons editing program.....

 

Green 18 your pictures are amazing the details are sharp i really like the 1898-O & 1880-S well done and thank you for sharing

 

Thank you for making me aware of my error i was so busy admiring the great pictures i made a mistake

 

Thank you Green18. I personally shoot RAW for all of my serious photography. All of my casual stuff of family and other things is jpeg. I currently use Photoshop Raw to process my RAW files and I work with them in Photoshop as 16 bit images and save as .psd files and save a copy as a jpeg. I do this for coin and my landscape images.

 

I've used Nikon Capture on occasion, but prefer keeping everything in Photoshop.

 

Nice. Love the '98 and '80 but wouldn't kick none of them out for looks.

 

Gottcha.........I don't use Photoshop. I've used Photoscape for years and have just started playing with the Nikon software for my Nef images.....heck, I just recently figured out how to shoot in raw format (was shooting all JPG). Photoshop is able to process the raw images? Might be worth it for me to invest in that program.

 

Photoshop is an amazingly powerful tool. But be forewarned, it has a fairly steep learning curve. I've been using it for almost 10 years. If you do buy it, take some courses on lynda.com. It's absolutely the best website for learning software. Plus you can get a 10 day free trial.