Here's my one cent's worth. [ATTACH]
I have gotten many of these in the studio lately—1912-13-14 $5 and $10 gold coins. I probably shoot a dozen of them a year. My only gold coin is a...
Coins are ruthless. When I don't have the best coin to photograph, I compensate with a splash of colour. [ATTACH]
About 50 of those casino tokens came into the studio recently and I had a few minutes to shoot them. They weren't in the best shape, but most of...
I'm curious about what ImageMagick does for photography that Photoshop doesn't. Does it do some things faster? Or maybe you use it for more than...
I didn't know about the for sale board. I have a calendar too, featuring ancient coins from private collections I've photographed. I think I'll...
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...
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