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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3462766, member: 99239&quot;]Wow, I have to say that I am honestly surprised. There is no clear preference with &quot;likes&quot; spread evenly. I guess I shouldn&#039;t be surprised. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all. We&#039;re creatures of habits and once we get used to a certain look - whatever that happens to be - then we measure everything against that look. Kind of how people get very passionate about, for example, the soft white light of incandescent tungsten lighting versus the pure white of an LED bulb. There is no biological reason why we should be preferentially drawn to other and reject the other. We&#039;re just used to the one look and when we come into a room with the &quot;wrong kind&quot; we&#039;re initially very uncomfortable. Stick with the wrong kind long enough and your mind&#039;s eye resets and then your old favorite looks all wrong!</p><p><br /></p><p>To continue the experiment I&#039;ve just taken another set of photos of another solidus. The exact same coin taken with the same camera and lights and everything but the results look very different from small variations in the lighting. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]920933[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]920936[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]920937[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>According to the group that&#039;s answered so far I would expect there to be an emotional response to one over the other when, really, there is no right or wrong here. They all have identical amount of detail and the color is representative of the actual coin. The sentiment of wanting the most accurate representation of the real life coin is actually a misconception born from the mind&#039;s trickery of visual processing. </p><p><br /></p><p>But how can that be? They&#039;re <b>clearly</b> different!</p><p><br /></p><p>In a photograph color and shadows are set but when you pick up a coin to examine it you move it around and while you&#039;re doing that you&#039;re probably also changing the quality and incidence angle of the light source(s). This creates an infinite number of &quot;frames&quot; like the above that your mind compresses into a single average against which it compares. And that yardstick, of course, varies from person to person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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