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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 1493236, member: 9270&quot;]Your lighting position (10 and 2) looks good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now change their angle just enough to get the reflections out of the picture.</p><p>You don&#039;t want them to control your camera settings.</p><p>You want as much as possible for the camera to see the light coming only from the coin.</p><p>Also try a &quot;mask&quot; to block out the light coming from the white NGC insert; again you&#039;re trying see only the light coming off the coin.</p><p>(A &quot;mask&quot; is a dark, non-reflective piece that covers everything except the coin; you&#039;ll have to play with the hole size so that the mask doesn&#039;t cast a shadow on the coin. I use dark gray construction paper like used in elementary school art classes.)</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll also have to experiment with copper coins since the camera settings will be different.</p><p>Same with proof and proof-like coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Make sure you make notes about your camera settings, lighting, etc. so that once you get them the way you want you can repeat them later.</p><p>I hate to &quot;re-invent the wheel&quot; each time I image my coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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