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...
ok.. I get it. I guess since I cut my coins out, the background in the raw file doesn't matter, so I rarely give it a thought when I'm capturing...
I had the same problem with the grey on coin faces, especially darker tokens, but four or five years ago I started changing the direction of my...
Thank you. For the first angle view image, I used a single light 500 watt to the left side, through a Lee 216 diffuser. The front view images I...
The newest addition to my collection; a couple of WW1 propaganda medals. The bronze version is pretty common, but the silver in not. I was lucky...
Thank you. I didn't have that one, but after a quick search, now I do.
I think that is true for the presentation of the coin, but not of the capture of the coin. Why would you change the colour of the background?
Everyone is familiar with The Money Changer and His Wife- 1514 oil on panel painting by the Flemish renaissance artist Quentin Matsys. It graced...
Two million marks in crisp 100,000 mark notes. The was printed in February of 1923, when 2 million marks it still held some value. This bundle...
This is the 10,000-mark coin I have in my collection that I currently have in my book. Is there anyone willing to lend me a higher denomination...
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