Rediscovery

The Trajan denarius was NOT shot with the 10 sec delay (still experimenting!)

 

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I like your light tent. I have two tents (one from each of my sons), but have never liked the results. Every now and then I get it out and try again.

 

I found that everything I did resulted in poor shots (and a lot of constructive critique from the CT gang!) My wife let me "borrow" the photo booth from her. It seemed to soften up my shots, and I can see them much more clearly. However, I am deviating from the photo-shop black background, and decided the purple velvet to keep it dark, but a bit of texture, and an uniqueness as a background to my coins...kinda trademark approach to my collection...

I am still trying to find how you are getting dramatic results, and the clarity of detail and contrast... still learning...

 

For the longest time I used a mid-blue background as kind of a signature. But I like the contrast black gives especially to silver. It's alll in your personal preference I suppose. There is one seller on Ebay that uses a bright purple background. When I see it I feel like grinding my teeth.

 

I am still debating with myself...LOL, at this point, I am feeling better that I am finally getting better photos that you can actually see the detail in my coins.

 

I experimented with several different colors as backgrounds and finally settled on black, simply because black sucks up the surrounding colors on a screen and gives a truer representation of the coins' colors. Anything else seems to create optical illusions, at least to my eyes.

 

Thank you. Also, I saw that Doug actually used a black background (rolled felt?) vs. photo-shop. My wife does not like using photo-shopped backgrounds.
Thoughts, guys?

 

I use an old black telephone gel case as my background. However, as I've said, there are times when specks of dust or even reflections show in the image so I use an editor to remove the unwanted intruders.

Here is my latest shot. I did have to clean up the background a little, but, other than that, I did nothing to edit the color of the coin.

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Another slow night in the neighborhood. Hey, I know. Why don't I show you my latest re-shoot? I suspect the angle of the shot was intended to hide some of the imperfections.

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CLAUDIUS II (GOTHICUS)
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: DIVO CLAVDIO, radiate head right
REVERSE: CONSECRATIO, eagle standing facing with head right or left.
Struck at Rome, 270 AD
3.4g, 22mm
RIC 266

 

Here is one I haven't looked at in a long while:

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VICTORINUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: SALV-S AVG, Salus standing right, holding snake she feeds out of patera in her right hand
Struck at Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne), 269/270 AD
3.2g, 20mm
RIC 67

 

nice reshootin' ... I still need a Victorinus

 

Not much change here:

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TETRICUS I
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate draped bust right
REVERSE: SPES PVBLICA, Spes advancing left holding flower and raising hem of skirt
Struck at Treveri, 272-274 AD
3.9g, 19.1mm
RIC 136

 

Another I haven't looked at in a while:

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AURELIAN
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: ORIENS AVG, Sol standing left with hand raised, foot on one of two bound captives, XXIP in ex.
Struck at Serdica, 274 AD
3.4g, 23mm
RIC 63f, Venera 1008, C 145

 

LOL, What is this? Just a random Animal? LOL

 

Someone mentioned that Ghoul Lighting is not favored.


Shah Khusro I
Aryan Mint Struck AD 552

I reshot this coin in the spirit of Bing's thread...thanks Bing!

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I think there's a little too much light on Aurelian's face in that shot. My experience is that light coming directly at a face tends to wash out the features. Coming from 10 or 11 o'clock (from the back of the head) actually makes the facial features more distinct, as long as it's angled correctly.

 

Agreed if the light came from the crown of the head or behind the ear it might show more facial details.

 

Noob-- excellent reshoot!! It looks like a Doug photo .

 

Yeah, great pic noob.