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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MentalVirus, post: 1533976, member: 33177&quot;]Aside&nbsp; from collecting coins and bank notes&nbsp; from Vietnam (along with Laos, Cambodia &amp; French Indochina), one of my hobbies is photography (though never tried coins, usually people, street and landscape).&nbsp;&nbsp; I&nbsp; would like to start meshing these two hobbies!&nbsp; I would like to get a&nbsp; setup and procedure for getting good high quality photos for cataloging&nbsp; my collection.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All photo’s below are shot in the same manor with the same setup.&nbsp; A full frame Canon 5D Mark II DSLR with a 150mm f/2.8 Sigma Macro &amp; full stack of extension tubes, (2) diffused 430 EXII flashes (controlled with remote triggers) from&nbsp; the top and with a 4 sided white poster board box around the coin that&nbsp; is sitting on a matte black plastic background.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this works for some and not for others.&nbsp; The biggest problem&nbsp; coins will be the many newer proof coins that I have in my collection,&nbsp; coins with mirror like fields.&nbsp; This method just turns the backgrounds&nbsp; black and I’m thinking that these coins might need to be shot on angles&nbsp; and/or with the lighting at an angle?</p><p><br /></p><p>After using the flashes, I’m thinking that maybe a source of continuous&nbsp; lighting will be better?&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps there are some ‘table top’ setups&nbsp; that would work better for this kind of photography?&nbsp; Is black the best background, or should I just make it an 18% gray card background which would make white balance a breeze?</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m wondering what you think of the quick pictures that I did take&nbsp; already and idea’s on what I could/should do?&nbsp; I would like to also come&nbsp; up with a setup and method that is easy to repeat and keep consistent,&nbsp; which I don’t think I really have right now.&nbsp; Of course I will have to&nbsp; practice and play around some, this was just a quick first try.&nbsp; I’m now&nbsp; out of town working for several weeks so I’m going over the pictures&nbsp; and thinking about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each coin was photographed twice, front &amp; back, then combined in photoshop.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is anyone into &#039;professional&#039; coin photography?&nbsp; I have the professional quality equipment to produce pictures as good as any, I just need the knowledge and experience to use it in this (new to me) manor lol.&nbsp; I&#039;ll also look into books on this subject...</p><p><br /></p><p>Setup:</p><p>[ATTACH]203376.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(3) Vietnam 1946 5 hao KM2.2 Coins - (6) Shots Combined</p><p>[ATTACH]203371.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="verdana"><font size="1"><span style="color: #ababab"><font face="verdana">1943 5 Cent French Indochina Rotated Die</font></span></font></font></p><p>[ATTACH]203372.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="verdana"><font size="1"><span style="color: #ababab"><font face="verdana">Vietnam 1946 1 Dong Aluminum</font></span></font></font></p><p>[ATTACH]203373.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="verdana"><font size="1"><span style="color: #ababab"><font face="verdana">Vietnam 1953 10 Su</font></span></font></font></p><p>[ATTACH]203374.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="verdana"><font size="1"><span style="color: #ababab"><font face="verdana">Vietnam 1986 Silver 100 Dong Soccer</font></span></font></font></p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]203375[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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