While your ETTR example is not really traditional ETTR (you have only a little over-exposure), my discussion of calibrating backgrounds to black...
Exposure To The Left, ie exposing such that you do not crush shadow details with the initial exposure. By pushing a dark background just to black...
I rarely shoot raw, so pushing the background to black in combination with other jpg mapping parameters makes a lot of sense from ETTL...
Backlights are a really bad idea for coins, where accurate color is desired. The only light you want hitting the lens is what is coming from the...
I have a few coin photography systems available at reduced prices. These systems are all based on microscope stand (small copy stand with focusing...
It's not "juicing" if you make the image look more like the coin does.
The high magnification numbers on these USB microscopes accounts for the "magnification" from the sensor to a normal-size monitor. So let's assume...
A light "dome" could do the trick, but would still not provide tilt. To do what @physics-fan3.14 says the app will do would require some very...
I checked out a couple of the nuTilt images on DL's website. They indeed gave me a bit of trouble, and I think I figured out why...
I like @RonSanderson's animations better than what I am seeing at DL's site. The nuTilt animations go round and round continuously. Ron's go back...
Banned? I've never heard of that. It's certainly more difficult to get them these days. Halogen bulbs are incandescent and they are still being...
This is why I ended up doing both for the same coin, to compare the two styles. The animation shows on this coin that there is not a lot of...
With axial lighting, the coin and camera are in the same orientations as what I am calling "straight" shooting, but a semi-reflective mirror is...
Here's an animation of a toned Peace Dollar (not mine) photographed with 'pseudo-axial' and 'straight' lighting techniques: [ATTACH]
I just completed and shipped what is probably my most advanced system yet. It is built upon the System-X2 core, so it has a focus rail rather than...
Those are nice presentations of the photographs of the coin, and I would not call those renderings nor art. The overall presentation may be...
I'm in full agreement with Brandon @brg5658. The images being shown by @Denis Richard are impressive, but they are artistic renderings, not...
I either shoot on black backgrounds (clean photographic velvet) or on True Grey. Mostly I do black, and meter on the coin, but the background...
My System-X Copy Stand Coin Photo System has been very popular, and I have sold quite a few since introducing them about 18 months ago, including...
My favorite DDO's are Type-III's, where each of the two hubs used has a different design. Here's 1949-S DDO-003, with a "blunt top" over "pointed...
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