How To Post (Upload) Photos

telemyz - you asked an age old questions, that is very hard to easily explain taking images of coin is one of the most difficult things to do correctly. For my coins, i dontuse flash! Flash is too bright, too direct and completely uncontrollable. I use ambient light, and then flood the object with that. use an old milk jug to cover a light bulb (be sure to do it safely so the lightbulb doesnt burn the plastic) add 2 to 3 of those around your coin, and you should have ample light to choose from. it might be asier with a digital camera that allows you to adjust settings like aperature and speed.

the easiest answer is to practice, and see what method works for you. Because there are so many different cameras out there, a setup that works for 1 member on 1 camera, wont work for another using a different camera.

Good luck - and dont be afraid to start a thread showing some images you took and asking for comments or suggestions

 

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thanks so much for your response. I will try again at some point. Coins are so small, so yes, I will have to practice. Hope to learn a lot from being at CoinTalk.

 

trust me - i take pictures of my own coins - but they are FAR fromthe ebst! There are member on this forum who take absolutely stunning images!

I bet if you were to practice taking pictures, and start a thread asking for help and/or comments -- i bet you one of those folks would chime in There is also a book out about taking images of coins.... i cannot remember the name of it though dangitt!! Either a member on this forum wrote it, or contributed to it ... i hate when my memory completely fails me

 

im trying this here hope you dont mind..ive been told im to stupid to post pics..how do i get pics from photobucket to here? i know im missing something but what..thank you for your help

 

see still to small and this pic said it was like 840.mbs.i dont know AGGGGH

 

Try reading the first post in this thread. Your original picture MUST be less than 250KB or else you will get those little previews.

 

scan

I recently read a post that someone put the coin in a scanner. What do you think? As long as putting coins on the scanner bed does not damage the scanner/printer. Afraid to try. Waiting to hear what someone else has to say. Thanks.

 

Why Doug... do you have a really old scanner?

Most scanners i see these days have the ability to select the part of the preview screen you wish to scan, this eliminates the need to edit the photo after. It might not eliminate the desire - especially if you like to enhace the photo, add a logo ect. I dont know about all new scanners, but alot also add the ability of batch scanning. place 20 coins on the scan bed, select them, and get 20 different jpg's, gif's, ect....

personally, while scanning is SO much easier then taking photos, the image from a camera is much nicer then a scanned image IMHO

 

scanning coins

Thanks for the info. I will definately give it a try. I will try it with my largest coin first and see what happens. At some point I will post it, just to show how it turned out.

 

wow i think i got it thank you so much for everyones help.now figure out how to take pics lolol

 

see what you people have started....lol

 

i will have to post my oldest and uglyest coin if it is even a coin.and i know i can write in the post i put picsty

 

Wheaties fan - yes, you certainly have the tricks to uploading images down pat :thumb:

now to get the images of the coin even bigger, yet retain the same file size - crop the background stuff out, so that the edges of the coin are the outside edge of the image. MSPaint can easily help you do that.

In no time, you will be posting ginormous images quite easily

 

I will agree with you here 100%! alot of scanners these days are complete ... well, a waste of money! I have been searching for an affordable scanner that will do what i need for close to 2 years now. Still got my plumb-awful epson.