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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2528564, member: 73983&quot;]SuperDave hit the nail on the head.&nbsp; If you&#039;re really wanting to go up to the next level in photography, then you need to invest in the proper equipment.&nbsp; It&#039;s sort of like taking your daily commuter vehicle to a drag race.&nbsp; Sure you might have a very nice car, but it&#039;s not tuned to the specific task you&#039;re trying to accomplish.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to ask yourself, how serious are you about taking your imaging to the next level.&nbsp; Is it worth $500.00 or more to take the next leap?&nbsp; If your answer is yes, there are several people on here, including me who are more than willing to help you on your journey.&nbsp; You can contact [USER=31773]@rmpsrpms[/USER] about obtaining an affordable setup that will get you started down the road.&nbsp; But remember, the equipment is only half the equation.&nbsp; The other half is understanding the science of camera and lighting.&nbsp; You will need to learn the fundamentals of achieving proper exposure.&nbsp; The relationship of aperture, shutter speed and ISO sensitivity.&nbsp; How the aperture setting effects depth of field and how far you can push your depth of field before diffraction starts to creeps it&#039;s ugly head in.&nbsp; The effect of white balance and how to obtain a proper/custom white balance based on the lighting you choose.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had the fortunate opportunity to learn photography before I got back into coin collecting.&nbsp; When I came across images that I saw from [USER=19094]@robec[/USER], [USER=1892]@SuperDave[/USER] and [USER=31773]@rmpsrpms[/USER] I was deeply inspired to put my fundamental knowledge of photography into a new direction.&nbsp; Prior to getting into numismatic photography, I was shooting landscape images and sports images.&nbsp; It was a fairly simple matter of applying what I knew and focusing it in a slightly new direction.&nbsp; My learning curve was fairly flat compared to someone coming from the hobby of coin collecting and wanting to start taking photographs of coins with minimal photographic knowledge.&nbsp; Don&#039;t take what I am telling you as words of discouragement, rather take them as something to think about.&nbsp; Your skills once you start down this road will develop (no pun intended) rather quickly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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