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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8063571, member: 19463&quot;]This is my current hobby as well.&nbsp; I am priced out of the market today by those of you willing to pay what I consider &#039;too high&#039; prices for some of the most ordinary coins.&nbsp; I have begun going through my catalog of coin photos and reshooting some that I hope against hope I can coax a better photo from.&nbsp; The fact is that many of them are simply not going to result in a great photo because the coin is not even a 2 on the scale of &#039;eye appeal&#039;.&nbsp; Some look better than my best photo; some are just really that ugly but I try again because I have time to kill.&nbsp; One special category that resists my efforts is the universe of small coins with poor surfaces.&nbsp; It is simply impossible to make a tetartemorion look like a tetradrachm but that does not mean I can&#039;t try, fail and try again.&nbsp; These were yesterday&#039;s victims:</p><p><br /></p><p>Lampsakos AR trihemiobol 12mm 1.09g&nbsp; This coin has two faces hard to light pleasingly at the same time and a high relief top of the head that shadows the faces from light coming from the top.&nbsp; In hand, it looks better when you wiggle it but my goal is not movies but a single, still image.&nbsp; The glare on the hair still bothers me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1397843[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Worst is a real loser with an excuse. This Ephesos tetartemorion is 6mm and 0.20g.&nbsp; It has rough surfaces but readable legends.&nbsp; The photo looks a lot better if you stand 10 feet from the computer.&nbsp; It might look even better at 10 yards or ten miles but my room is not that big. This one will have to be tried again before I move on to some of the really small (0.1g?) coins.&nbsp; The goal is to make the reverse show the eagle head clearly and not lose the legends. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1397844[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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