The trouble with light boxes is they shine light all over the coin without casting shadows. This is good for some product photography, but for...
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What you can buy is light that has a known color temperature. They are not "white" but because they have known color temp they can be white...
Yes, white is a very complicated color. We call a pretty wide range of colors "white". From a photographic perspective, the best color reference...
There is no such thing as white light.
Lots of good insight in this thread. In my experience, a minimum level of equipment is required, and beyond that there are diminishing returns....
I still think this is likely a fantasy piece. The tooling is too similar in quality to the T$ I examined. There is just too much "wrong" with the...
Hmm, I did not pay any attention to the alignment, assuming it was correct. I re-did the animation with the prongs aligned: [IMG]
OK, the correct overlay should be showing now. This coin actually reminds me of another coin I studied, a Trade Dollar, that showed evidence of...
Seems to me there are 2 possibilities here: 1) Post-mint tooling to cover up damage, or to make it more interesting, or some other nefarious...
I'd add to this that because they are LED, they run very cool. This gives you options for diffusion that you don't have with incandescents or...
Rick...you are doing great already. If you can get on with your first few posts and educate us all on what an RPMP is I think you'll go far. Sorry...
Whenever you are trying to capture the "in-hand" look, you need to light it in exactly the same way that you are viewing it "in-hand". Hold the...
The shots are not bad at all. Adding a 2nd light so that all the illumination does not come from straight above would "improve" them. It also...
It actually has to go through a more complex process than that. It must circulate, be put aside for a while (years) where it can tarnish, then...
You guys are way more organized than I am.
Is that a Kodak 89mm f3.8 Printing Ektar?
I'm a big fan of Sovereigns. They are .2354 ounces of Au. Smaller premium for the Au than AGEs.
The issue is that the camera's interpretation of -0.7EV is based on its internal metering. Do you have a live histogram available? That's usually...
The bottom photo pair is very good. A little less exposure (does the camera have exposure compensation?) would eliminate the blown highlights in...
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