These are photos of the same Thessaly coin using different lighting. One obscures the 'patina' while the other highlights it. I do not know which photo to 'file'. I am looking for some 'consensus'. Which should I keep? View attachment 640579 View attachment 640580
Personally, I would go into publisher and group the two images togther then save it as an image, so you can show off more charismatics of the coin.
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On Topcat7's original post I seen the pics of the two coins, but a few hours later they had disappeared with only the links there, that lead to an error message.
I like the way the second set shows the lovely iridescence but the first set is better all around. I vote to keep trying until you get a set that shows the iridescence and is well-lit and in focus. Thank goodness for digital photography! Can you imagine if we were all this picky about photos when it meant paying someone to develop actual film?
+1 to the first paragraph and +100 to the last. I have boxes of photos of my coins taken with film cameras and printed on 20th century photo paper. None are as good as the digital photos I have taken since 2000. I should just dump them all in the trash but that seems so heartless considering the time and money put into them. My grandson was born in 2002 after I went digital. His baby pictures are better and cost less than his mother's but I can't reshoot those old film photos of her like I did with the coins.
I guess my eye isn't developed well enough to see what makes Image #1 superior to Image #2. I don't notice much difference in focus or contrast between them. I'm totally in favor of Image #2 due to the iridescence. Maybe that hypnotized me. If this were a "for sale" thread and I were a shopper, it is Image #2 that would be much more likely to sell me on this coin. I do say ditto to @TIF and @dougsmit's comments about not lamenting the passage of film photography for this application. I can't imagine. A friend of mine down the street had a computer and scanner in 1998, and a pretty good scanner at that. He scanned an image of one of my coins. When I realized he could then send that image anywhere in the world, and I could share it with friends, that was what converted me to the Internet, which I had hitherto resisted the idea of. The rest is history.
