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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eric Babula, post: 26057407, member: 85976&quot;]Awesome photos, Denis! And, thanks for starting this thread and sharing your knowledge as a professional photographer!</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it all comes down to what you&#039;re doing with your photos and how you want to present your coins. When I look at your &quot;Presentations&quot; page on your site: <a href="https://hipshotphotography.com/image-gallery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hipshotphotography.com/image-gallery" rel="nofollow">https://hipshotphotography.com/image-gallery</a> I see that the artful possibilities are endless, and hope to do some of that, some day, with my better coins (that is, IF I even have any coins worthy of &quot;artful presentation&quot;)! Right now, I&#039;m inventorying my collection (which is going to take quite some time!), and will be taking mostly &quot;Documentation&quot; type photos (straight on, obverse, reverse, obverse slab, reverse slab, and maybe some details for VAM&#039;s, varieties, errors), and importing those photos into my coin software. For my &quot;decent&quot; coins, I do want to take very nice shots to show the beauty of the coin as I see it in hand (luster, color, details incl. blemishes). For my lower-grade coins, I don&#039;t need &quot;expert-level&quot; photos - just good, crisp, clear photos showing the coin for what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it&#039;s time for me to start shooting in RAW, and learning how to edit RAW photos! I don&#039;t have the Adobe Suite and am unwilling to pay for it at this time (retired and on the wife&#039;s budget until I can convince her that we&#039;re ok on our funds for the rest of our retirement), so I&#039;m using FREE software for my editing purposes. Right now, PhotoScape X seems to be my favorite photo editing software (I also have Paint.net, GIMP, which I don&#039;t think does RAW, and Krita, and Darktable). But, I have no idea how much control over RAW photos any of these has. It will be a learning process, for sure! But, when the time comes to image my collection, I will put in the effort to learn!</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to keep this thread going, if you and the other experienced photographers like [USER=73983]@jtlee321[/USER], [USER=1765]@messydesk[/USER], [USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER], [USER=31773]@rmpsrpms[/USER], etc. would like to continue discussing professional photography, I&#039;d LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to sit back and read all of the knowledge you all are willing to share!!! Hopefully, this thread doesn&#039;t deteriorate too much by us inexperienced picture-takers, or by the in-fighting that happened earlier!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again [USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER] and others. Please, PLEASE keep discussing among yourselves![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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