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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1473840, member: 2972&quot;]&quot;Are some coins just really hard to photograph?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes.&nbsp; The hardest for me are proof/prooflike coins, deeply dished coins like the Mercury dime or Buffalo nickel, and toned coins in slabs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You want a really tough coin to image, try to image a toned mercury dime proof in an NGC slab.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That said, and please don&#039;t take this the wrong way <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> , but war nickels aren&#039;t a particularly hard coin to photograph.&nbsp; Lehigh gave you great tips.&nbsp; Two lights at a high angle is key.&nbsp; Your last photo is quite good, just the exposure needs to be backed off a touch (1/2 to 1/3 stop, to my eye, as in Lehigh&#039;s 3rd photo above).</p><p><br /></p><p>One tip I didn&#039;t see mentioned is be sure the room you are photographing in is dark and free of reflective colors.&nbsp; In short, coins with some reflectivity can really suffer in these instances, and I think I see some reflected light in your photos (reflected brown from the desk?).</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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