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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8107391, member: 19463&quot;]Ryro is too kind but the statement actually is hurtful to me also because I am unable today to take photos as well as I did when that Diocletian was shot.&nbsp; I have excuses including my inability to find coins that are as photogenic and my tendency to try too hard to correct problem A while messing up&nbsp; B, C and D. My failure rate is greater than it once was.&nbsp; I am afraid to try to shoot some of the more photogenic coins again knowing I would fail.&nbsp; My cameras are better but my eyesight and attention to detail have slipped.&nbsp; Do note there is a big difference between photogenic coins a high grade coins.&nbsp; I have photos I really like of worn out old coins and fail to handle some of my few &#039;better&#039; coins.&nbsp; &#039;People&#039; photographers pay for professional models.&nbsp; Perhaps I need to put an ad in the paper for beautiful models of the denarius clan.&nbsp; However, the idea is not to make an ugly coin look good but to make an image that shows truth without being excessively graphic about the faults.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Lately I have been playing with super macro where sharp focus is difficult but arranging lighting is much harder.&nbsp; Tiny changes in angle make huge differences. This was yesterday&#039;s flop.&nbsp; I posted the whole Divus Galerius in other threads.&nbsp; This is the eagle atop the tomb on the reverse.&nbsp; Dust is killing me.&nbsp; This image shows my failure to wipe the coin clean as much as it does the scraping above the bird.&nbsp; Perhaps I need to go back to coins I have had longer that might show something worth shooting so closely but this was what was at hand. [ATTACH=full]1410401[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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