Glad to hear your copy stand it on the way. My earlier posts have been centered around axial lighting and raw coins, since that is the vast...
All Photoshop products are excellent. When I wrote this I was wondering if this stuff could be done in Elements. Does it support layer styles?
Glad to hear you like the post. The glass panel is regular glass, taken from an 8 x 10 picture frame. This was my first set up. Very simple and...
For those interested, another technique in the numismatic photographer’s tool kit is Bevel and Emboss. This will come in handy on many occasions....
Static axial lighting is limited and I understand why people tend to dislike it. I also prefer light with direction to give me both highlights and...
You are correct. Thank you for pointing that out. I insert formatted text blocks and that was a detail I obviously missed when revising the date...
I realize most of the members here are not photographers and likely have no interest in becoming one, but if you one of the people that is...
I have some shots for that. I’ll post them soon.
As a professional numismatic photographer, and a coin lover, I can say I use Photoshop to make a coin look as accurate as possible. I don't think...
# 1 is the best of the three, though as you noted, I'm sure none do them justice. For these kinds of coins I often place a single light at 12 o...
Cool. Didn’t know that. Clearly I don’t edit images with my phone, but that is handy. Thanks for the info.
Windows comes with a free program called "Paint", under Windows Accessories. You can add all kinds of arrows, shapes and text there. [ATTACH]
And here's something different for those interested.... Coin detail brought to life. [ATTACH]
Further to my previous comment, we should first appreciate the difference between "shooting" your coin image and "presenting" your coin image....
You can’t use just one light to properly expose the coin and background in the same shot, so your choices are: 1- my first choice is ignore the...
My system is a hybrid. No doubt. I call it dynamic axial lighting as I often rotate the glass panel on the axis of the coin and can, when...
You can add a blocker around the coin if necessary, and I find I need to for 1 in 50 coins I shoot. It depends on the surface. I find it really...
Check out my axial lighting post on page 4 to see how you can modify your current set up to produce better images. One thing though, remove the...
this is an axial lighting diagram; [ATTACH] I would also recommend you add a black card on the other side of the glass plate to prevent light...
All great points.. I've love to see some images to go with them. Can you post a few? FYI, you can use axial lighting for slabbed coins, just...
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