Coin photography by jtlee321

You could be right on that

 

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...so sorry for your lose my friend! Just for the future safety of anyone's coins traveling away from their possession...why on earth did you pack and send them like that? I just don't understand how you could have let them travel in such a manner

 

Coin Photography Tips by Dave:
1. No need to have an expensive setup
2. Get a flourescent desk lamp
3. Use a piece of paper or your hand to diffuse lighting
4. Smile because you didn't drop a grand on a camera and now have that much more to spend on coins

 

Don't use your hand. It can affect the color of the light. I suppose you could wear white gloves, though.

 

Unless your other passion is photography. I use my camera for more than just taking photo's of coins.

Here's an image I shot this weekend while attending my brother's wedding at Timberline Lodge, OR. This was shot at just after midnight with a 15 minute exposure. The setting moon lit up the mountain and I used a bright flashlight to "paint" in the trees in the foreground. The circular lines above the mountain are star trails and are caused by the movement of the earth over the 15 minutes that the shutter was open.

 

Awesome shot Jtlee!

 

Thanks. That is the sort of thing that got me into photography to begin with. Most of my photography is landscape images and my main source of income is from sports photography.

 

Were you shooting towards the pole star?

 

Yes. I was on the south side of the mountain facing directly North. The North star Polaris was just out of the frame, which is why the star trails made a circular pattern in the sky.

 

You know it never crossed my mind really and it should have.... I am constantly shipping something, a few boxes a week even.... blonde moment I guess

 

I'm not sure I'd put my hand under a light that would make it an effective diffuser.

 

You could use your hand as a reflector, which would effectively diffuse the light, but also discolor it. I have a white glove here somewhere, so I suppose I could try it to see how well it works. I'd use it to fill shadows and reduce contrast on certain coins.

 

See, that's why you're where you are and I'm where I am. You look at it in terms of practical physics, I visualize a single 50,000w halogen bulb turning my hand into a cartoon X-ray image as it cooks the flesh.

I'd have to set the custom White Balance pretty quickly.

 

Well in a very depressing update, the USPS sent me a check for $75 dollars because they couldn't find the 3 coins... So my "woody" 1909 VDB Lincoln Cent, a beautifully toned '54 Dime and this gorgeous Morgan are no more

1884-O

 

Man, I'm really sorry Brandon. That really sucks. Was the 1909 Lincoln Woodie the one you posted in Got Wood thread?

 

Yes it was... My pic sucked so that's where you would've cane in lol

 

Did you see my latest 1909 VDB I got off eBay?

I did a full 360 degree rotation of the lighting so you can see the fiery luster under that color. I need to do the reverse now.

 

Cool! How many frames did you shoot to make this animation? Is that die polish in front of Lincoln's nose?

 

WOW! Yeah and I can't believe the price you paid either!

 

I shot a total of 115 frames for that animation. I made the mistake of shooting them all in RAW format too, so they took a while to process them all. Yes they were batch processed, but on my 2008 MacPro it still took a while to process. I'm going to experiment on the reverse and shoot with smaller JPEG's and see how it goes.

That line near Lincoln's nose is an old scratch that only shows up in the right light, which you see in the animation.