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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4194808, member: 77814&quot;]What you are learning is the difference (simplified) between DIRECT light and DIFFUSED light.</p><p><br /></p><p>With direct light the light casts dark, distinct shadows.</p><p>When you cup the subject you are stopping more direct light, and your hand are also reflecting light creating a reflected light scenario thus lower the amount of dark, distinct shadows.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you were to put a white show curtain (or even wait for a various thicknesses of cloud cover over the sun) above your objects outside in direct sunlight you would create one panel/layer of diffusion, and create a light that casts a lighter shadow.</p><p><br /></p><p>This then usually leads people into flash photography and improving their ability of controlling light.&nbsp; For instance, if you put someone under a tree in the dark shadows during a bright day ... can you properly control the exposure of a properly exposed subject *and* a properly exposed background ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend you go to a photography forum such as thephotoforum.com and you can learn a lot .. it can also be expensive depending upon how far you want to go.&nbsp; But coins are not really 3 dimensional like people so learning simple diffusion as mentioned above can really help in your images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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