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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7999064, member: 105098&quot;]picture looks good, play with the lighting and snap a lot of pictures, Ideally you&#039;d be looking for one that best represents how the coin looks to the eye in the picture. this picture looks like too much white light. maybe a filter to tone down the lighting. </p><p>Lighting plays a huge factor. same coin as the one I posted above with a cold blue light instead. it looks wrong and unnatural and less appealing but it highlights the streaking of the metal a bit better than when the light is set warmer for a more natural to the eye appearance. background is white paper on both sets of pictures, mostly to be able to identify the &quot;color&quot; of the light being used. you might have better luck with a black background, it tends to absorb some of the excess light instead of reflect it like white will. </p><p>I find the photography aspect of it intriguing, but I&#039;m a collector first and foremost, so I don&#039;t spend much time on it. It takes some fiddling and tweaking to take really good pictures just in general but you don&#039;t necessarily need great equipment, it just makes it easier to take nice pictures with great equipment, this and the previous pictures were taken on a samsung galaxy S5 cellphone camera for instance and then some different lighting sources.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1387637[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1387638[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, just saying, it&#039;s not easy to get a perfect picture when you use a potato, but with some fiddling and effort you can get acceptable pictures if you stick to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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