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<p>[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4606870, member: 112673"]Image for today.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting. Your work reflects your dedication to this. I'm using a Nikkor 105 macro and I usually shoot at f14, which gives me enough DoF for most coins at the minimum focus distance of 12 1/4" from the film plane. That gives me about 7" from coin to lens, much like yours. That's a good working distance. I looked up your lens and it seems f5.6 is it's happy place, but that is super shallow DoF. Still, at f5.6 my 105, at min. foc. dis. doesn't even register as having any DoF. I see why you often need focus stacking.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Nikon's native ISO is 200, so I shoot at that for the same reasons you do, and I use a 500 watt studio strobe so my shutter speed is 1/200 sec. and at f14, ambient room light has no effect on the image. If the strobe doesn't fire, I get a black screen even with full light in the room. Also with 1/200 sec I don't get any camera shake. For your setup, with a 1/4 sec shutter speed, do you have to shoot in a dark room? What kinds of issues does that cause? </p><p><br /></p><p>One question. You said your lights are diffused. Do you adjust the the diffusion distance on your lights? </p><p><br /></p><p>About cut outs, I see the advantages of shooting on a black background but don't you find you lose detail in the edges of the coins? Speaking of elliptical marquee cut outs, I often do that too, when I can, but for coins with reeded edges, or irregular ancient coins, I can't use it. I have to select them with the quick selection tool to avoid clipping the curves. This coin is a good example of capturing the reeding, and for me, this really needs to be shot on a white background. It takes a bit more time to select but I feel the detail is important. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141165[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For the high mag stuff, how do you get light on the coins with only 2" of space?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4606870, member: 112673"]Image for today. Very interesting. Your work reflects your dedication to this. I'm using a Nikkor 105 macro and I usually shoot at f14, which gives me enough DoF for most coins at the minimum focus distance of 12 1/4" from the film plane. That gives me about 7" from coin to lens, much like yours. That's a good working distance. I looked up your lens and it seems f5.6 is it's happy place, but that is super shallow DoF. Still, at f5.6 my 105, at min. foc. dis. doesn't even register as having any DoF. I see why you often need focus stacking. My Nikon's native ISO is 200, so I shoot at that for the same reasons you do, and I use a 500 watt studio strobe so my shutter speed is 1/200 sec. and at f14, ambient room light has no effect on the image. If the strobe doesn't fire, I get a black screen even with full light in the room. Also with 1/200 sec I don't get any camera shake. For your setup, with a 1/4 sec shutter speed, do you have to shoot in a dark room? What kinds of issues does that cause? One question. You said your lights are diffused. Do you adjust the the diffusion distance on your lights? About cut outs, I see the advantages of shooting on a black background but don't you find you lose detail in the edges of the coins? Speaking of elliptical marquee cut outs, I often do that too, when I can, but for coins with reeded edges, or irregular ancient coins, I can't use it. I have to select them with the quick selection tool to avoid clipping the curves. This coin is a good example of capturing the reeding, and for me, this really needs to be shot on a white background. It takes a bit more time to select but I feel the detail is important. [ATTACH=full]1141165[/ATTACH] For the high mag stuff, how do you get light on the coins with only 2" of space?[/QUOTE]
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