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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3306428, member: 83956&quot;]I take photos with my (old) iPhone and then piece them together with a free app called Pic Stitch. I email myself the results. So I do pretty much everything on my phone. Setting a 3-second timer eliminates shake and frees both hands to manipulate the light.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The most important aspect is natural light.</b> I&#039;ve never found a substitute, even after making a light box. I experiment with cupping my hand around the coin, which affects lighting and sometimes makes the coin itself actually appear brighter. Sometimes I will sweeten the photo with an auto-enhance feature in the desktop Windows default photo program/app, unless I feel the resulting image is not reasonably true to the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just place a little foldout camping table outside with a stand that keeps my iPhone the optimal distance away from the coin. The coin is balanced on an old CD spindle that gives it the appearance of &quot;floating&quot; over a blue cloth background.</p><p><br /></p><p>The photos are adequate; not hi-res, but I don&#039;t need them to be and wouldn&#039;t want 25 MB photos clogging my desktop.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver coins photograph really well with this method, and bronze coins do ok.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]876182[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]876183[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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