A lighthouse? I never thought of that. I like it. I agree there must be a deeper meaning for it than just a star on a cone. Unless it was a...
My latest acquisition. A tetradrachm in the name and types of Alexander III minted for Kassander at Uranopolis. 300-290 BCE posthumous issue....
This rather beat-up guy is from the Le Chameau Shipwreck. On August 26, 1725, she made landfall in the wrong place in a gale and was blown onto...
Matthew Bolton's Soho Mint was well known for doing that, but the practice of sealing barrels with wax goes back to Roman times.
I have used Pixlr to edit modern banknote images that Photoshop won't let me. Photoshop includes a counterfeit deterrence system (CDS) that...
I'm not a big fan of the gradient. To me, it overpowers the coins. When I use a gradient, I make the tonal change less dramatic—perhaps from light...
There is undoubtedly a lot of speculation in the coin history books, but my point was not to criticize properly applied speculation in academic...
Collecting coins preserves history. Collecting frog-shaped throw pillows is a cry for help. Turning coin images into a set of gears is... well......
AI is an excellent writing assistant but not a reliable researcher. It can give a professional voice to your writing when your professional skills...
This is one of my first, or more accurately, my wife's. It's one of her father's medals. He was a Scottish paratrooper in WW2 and an all-around...
Great stories, but how much of it is accurate? I ask because I've been using AI for three years to write coin articles, and up to now, it is...
Happy New Year, everyone! Now, back to coin presentations. For individual coins, I often pull colours from the coin itself for the background....
I use dynamic axial lighting for many of my proof coins. It's excellent at balancing and directing the light on the coin's surface. [ATTACH]
I just stumbled across this thread, and it was an interesting read. I think the background should complement the coin, which will change with...
Benedetto Pistrucci’s first sovereigns had more than just his initials; they had his full last name. This silver coin, one of the first from 1819,...
Thank you. I wish the coins were mine, but they are from a private collection I photographed. Regarding my equipment and lighting, I used two sets...
Like Lord Marcovan, I prefer coin images with some personality and style. To me, and I'm heavily biased, an eBay image is like a coin's mugshot,...
Nice shots and interesting approach - is that a reflector from a flashlight or something similar?
I agree but I think you misunderstood my reply. I add a background to every coin image I make, I just don't do it while I'm shooting the coin. I...
As I thumb through my copy of Mark Goodman's book, I was just wonering if everyone is aware that is written almost exclusivly for photographing...
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