First Photo Post

As a new member of CT I've been encouraged to post some photos so here's my first try.

I have always liked the Isabella quarter. What do you think?

 

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Nice job for a first attempt!

Chris

 

Excellent for the first try!

 

nice quarter what grade is it ?

 

See, with this kind of post, you do a GTG or guess the grade and let it go awhile before you reveal what the grade is. I am thoroughly incompetent, so I'll go first...uh...MS62

 

Nice, I'll say 63/64. Welcome, pretty good 1rst attempt.

 

great post...

 

Very nice job!!

 

Welcome nice coin and nice photo.

 

Very good photo, Super nice coin. I'm going to say MS-65.

 

Nice photos and coin. I'll guess MS65 as well.

What is your photography set up?

 

Good pics. MS64

 

I concur with the rest: very nice coin and very nice picture! It turned out much better than my own first attempt.

Do you care to share your technique? I'm always looking for tips, hints or ideas to steal.

 

Welcome, to CT
I am in the 65 camp.

 

Awesome photo! I have always loved iseballa quarters too!

 

I think that is a nice photograph of a very nice coin.

The example in my collection pales in comparison to your coin.

I will be interested to learn the grade. The breaks in the reverse fields appear minor so I'm guessing it made MS but not 65. My SWAG is MS63 & pretty so let's make that MS64. Final answer- MS64.

 

Great photo and interesting coin/token. I've never seen one before!

 

Very Nice! How did you get that picture so clear! WOW! Great JOB!

 

As good as these images are, I feel comfortable offering a couple ideas for improvement since you've no reason to feel either your skills or equipment are lacking.

Obviously, larger is better. I don't know if these are actual size, or downsized in order to post here, but the camera is plainly capable of capturing sharp images and it's rare that images this clear have to be this small. At a minimum, for grading purposes one tries to achieve a diameter of 800 pixels or more for the coin itself; I personally shoot for 1000-1200px in diameter. You can help this by cropping as close to the coin as possible, eliminating any extraneous image data that might be complicating whatever postprocessing program you're using.

Which leads to the next question, which has already been asked.

This. In addition, what are you using for postprocessing technique to present them here? I see you're using Elements for Mac, but there's no indication of how large the images are to start with nor what's been done to make them postable.