Rather than changing aperture, I would lengthen the shutter speed or use brighter light.
Nice group! I don't have a land tortoise so that is my favorite here.
I love the little silver but why stop with the huge obols? Many of the small coins get called by Athenian names like obol when they really were...
This one mystifies me. A photo that dark should not have enough shadow detail left to allow it to be rescued this well in postprocessing. I...
Here are three from Gallus (last one Antioch), one Volusian and a provincial of Aemilian from Antioch, Pisidia --- I do not have an Imperial of...
Yes, yes and yes. I have shot a few more sets but have not run them through the stacking software yet. It has been a busy week.
Wow Steve! The buzzards are circling and your corpse isn't even cold. I'll get in line but warn I won't pay as much and probably can't even...
Another assumption many people make is that something that costs a million dollars is more interesting than something that costs ten. I think...
Compare: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=denarius http://numismatics.org/crro/results?q=fulltext:denarius As...
As a matter of fact I will not go to Italy or own an Italian car. That includes a Chrysler. I have no problems with museums that display their...
The Martini plates were made from plaster casts. It is a shame they did not convey with the coin. We have made great progress in coin...
Whoopee, I'm rich. I paid $4 each. [IMG] http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fake.html The same page shows the fake I mentioned but...
A problem as I see it is that a fake coin on eBay is most likely going to sell to a person who will not realize it or be suspicious of why other...
Most resizing algorithms reduce the sharpness of the image and benefit from applying a small amount of 'unsharp mask' after the resizing. This...
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-a6000 http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-a6000/sony-a6000A.HTM...
I'll predict the coin is green. I hope I'm right but it is a keeper either way.
First attempts at photographing the smoothing were less revealing than I had hoped. There are obvious patches where the patina was scraped too...
They do seem to come in several styles besides the Simpsons model. Mine has a much shorter head more like Steve's. None of us have a good hand....
Great progress is being made here but it still might be easier to start over using krispy's suggestion of softer light. While you are at it, why...
Just an opinion but if you are to have just one Decius, this is the one. It was used throughout his reign and for the reasons JA described above,...
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