Previous photos of the first ancient coin I ever received did not really do the coin justice. They were either too far away, out of focus, or hazy. Now I have some better shots of it to share with you all. This is a very special coin, brought back from France by my mom as a birthday gift to me when I was first getting into coins at a young age.
Great eye-appeal on that baby ... the green-crusties actually add to the contrast and overall appeal (your Ma did very well in choosing that B-day gift!!) ... oh, and nice photography as well!!
It is always nice to see a coin made more special by the story of haw it came to be ours. There are coins worth a thousand times more in term of cash and there are coins made priceless by what they are rather than what they would bring at a sale. Too many coin collectors miss this distinction and believe any 'equal' coin is as good as another. Thank you for sharing your excellent photo of your special coin.
A simple pentax point and shoot camera on a tripod with a magnifying lens held up to it, pics edited in photoshop.
Or you could check out Doug Smith's website: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez3.html
It's a great pic. I like to have large image files of my coins, but I post smaller versions on the forum - around 1000 pixels wide. It makes the pages load quicker.
It's resized for the post, but the forum still loads the original resolution. If you click on it, it expands to full size. It's not really a big deal, unless you post a bunch of huge images. When somebody does that, I just end up closing the thread because it takes too long to load.
I don't know if we have anyone on the list that is paying for Internet by the byte or using a dial up modem but those two groups hate big images. Most of us anymore have unlimited Broadband and can't tell the difference. Many of my web pages have poor photos because I got pressure from people back then to keep the sizes down. Pages I rework or new pages get bigger photos but over 1200 wide makes little sense unless you are using a huge monitor. Has anyone looked at large coin photos on a 60" TV? They can be interesting.
