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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2607771, member: 19463&quot;]I would suggest you try the Larissa with less exposure and softer light.&nbsp; As it is, we have white glare with no detail in the highlights including a large area on the rear of the horse.&nbsp; Sometimes high relief silver coins are better with light bounced off the ceiling or a large white card.&nbsp; I put my camera in a large closet to make this easier.&nbsp; Digital photos have 256 steps in each of three colors.&nbsp; Only very small specular highlights should be recorded at the highest (255) stark white or pitch black (0) except for the background.&nbsp; You get no detail unless there is a separation between tones next to each other.&nbsp; I believ the Larissa is overexposed by a couple stops but harsh light can make it hard to have a full range of tones on a silver coin.&nbsp; My coin shows a similar fault on the horse&#039;s rear and belly so I need to work on this one, too.&nbsp; Polished surfaces are harder than textured ones.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]570245[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The elephant strikes me as much better.&nbsp; My main complaint here is the straight cut edge on the right side of the obverse.&nbsp; When shooting, you need to be loose enough that the whole coin is in the photo.&nbsp; You may not care about this but I always leave images in 3:2 proportions so I can have 4x6 prints made without cropping.&nbsp; I do not print them all but that is the reason you see a lot of black at top and bottom of my photos.&nbsp; You might postprocess it just a bit to tone down some glare but a lot of that depends on your computer monitor versus mine.&nbsp; Overall I&#039;d call it a good shot. Is the reverse just a bit sharper focus than the obverse? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]570256[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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