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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1260982, member: 26030&quot;]Lance, excellent post about TrueView&#039;s photographic philosophy.&nbsp; Also your photos were enlightening.&nbsp; Yes, it&#039;s interesting how different photographers impart their signature style on their photos.&nbsp; I bet someone could write a guide to coin photographers booklet about this sort of stuff so that you could match the style of photo that you like best (or that would show off a particular type of coin best).&nbsp; For example, send deep mirror proofs to photographer X, for max color of toned coins use photographer Y, for more standard room light photos use photographer Z.&nbsp; As it is now, most of us are forced to find this kind of stuff out by trial and error.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was fascinating when I recently got to see the results of a coin photography &quot;contest&quot; where a group of photographers all shot the same coin and the images were posted and voted upon.&nbsp; That was a really great way to see different styles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find your use of the term &quot;closer to reality&quot; sort of interesting though.&nbsp; Certainly if a coin has a color that pops at a certain angle in bright light, that is just as &quot;real&quot; as the way the coin looks from other view angles in more standard room light.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think there is anything wrong or fake with showing this optimal color angle photo.&nbsp; However if you ever want to sell a coin, I do think it&#039;s important to show both the optimal color angle and a more standard shot.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had this Proof Liberty Nickel on consignment in my hands a few months ago -- and this coin would radically change colors depending on the viewing and lighting angle.&nbsp; Talk about a chameleon coin!&nbsp; I took BOTH of these pictures with my iPhone.&nbsp; Just a slightly different viewing and lighting angle.&nbsp; I am sure some might think the 2nd image is UGLY, however it&#039;s a true representation of the way the coin would change color in indirect bright sunlight.&nbsp; By the way, I ended up <b>not</b> buying this coin because it was expensive at&nbsp; $1475 and I didn&#039;t really like the &quot;flash&quot; color of the coin (as shown in the 2nd photo).&nbsp; It was just a bit too carnival for me.&nbsp;&nbsp; However it certainly was a unique and interesting coin -- if I could have gotten it much cheaper, I might have kept it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]136468.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]136469.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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