First Photo Post

I think it looks great...great photo and a wonderful example of the coin.

 

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Your obverse appears more red than the reverse. Is this the case with the coin or is it a feature of the photo? Auto color balance on cameras can make different decisions between the two shots and cause this. Many cameras will allow an option of using a manually controlled color balance which makes it easier to match the color balance of both sides but you could tweak the color in postprocessing to make the two match (if they do on the coin).

 

Once again, thanks to all for your nice comments. I confess that I didn't take the photo, but it is the photo from the auction in which I won the Isabella. The exercise for me, as a new member, was to post a first photo. The coin was graded MS63 by NGC. I think it's closer to 64 and perhaps a good example of why one should buy the coin and not the slab.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

 

Welcome to CT. That's a very nice photo of a pretty Columbian commen quarter.

 

THANKS for the honesty, taking pics of coins, good pics, is an art that is not easy to master. Again, gorgeous coin, welcome, keep em coming.

 

Yes, you are correct. I am not a good photographer of coins. I've tried some pretty simple techniques which are, at best, adequate to list a coin for sale on Ebay. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the photo of the Isabella is not one I took. I do make it a habit of storing the professional photos of coins I do buy, if they're available. For this Isabella I tweaked the photos a bit in Adobe Photoshop Elements which cause a bit of a reddish hue to the obverse. In reality the obverse matches the reverse which is correctly depicted in the photo.

As Golden age mentioned above, taking good coin photos is an art. I don't have the skill or equipment to do coins justice, but I sure love to see great photos.

 

It's neither difficult (well, maybe, until you learn how ) nor expensive to shoot excellent images of coins. There are any number of cheap used point-and-shoot cameras up to the task, and many smartphones (iPhones are particularly good). Heck, for maybe $300 you can set yourself up to shoot professional-level images as good as anyone here.