Day and night photgrapy

My question is what is more nature
Photo making with a day lamp in the night


Go photo making in the day with no lamp

old camera

i dont have a profesion photo stand up. only my camera and my coin
What for back ground do you use, making a coin, is it black of white

i am getting confused

thanks

 

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I like the first pic. Sunlight doesnt always work well with coins

 

i think you lamp illuminated picture looks much better, that's a nice pic ro!

sometimes when i take pics in full daylight the coin looks nicer, sometimes it looks worse...kind of depends on the coin. i try and click some pic in both situation.

 

I tend to prefer natural light, but in this case night lamp works best.

Perhaps natural light was too direct.

 

Check out Doug's website. That's what I try to do. I have no clue how to use photo editing software though and can never get my black backgrounds to match.

 

Yes, some coins look better in natural sunlight.

 

thanks all, i am focus now in the nicht with a day lamp

 

With lamp!

 

Thanks , great help

 

oke Great, i have all the time wrong making picture lol
a picture makes the coin, and i like how you see the coin in real with your eyes.
thats whye i though i do it day light.
Now i see night is beter thanks thanks

 

The lamp gives you the ability to change to shadows/glare by moving the light source; whereas, you would need to keep repositioning the coin to get different results with sunlight.

 

i have to work with the poistioning with lamp and the coin thanks

 

Only you can answer your own question. Which photo best represents the coin in hand?

 

The big problem with natural light is that t changes every hour and every day. If you get a good photo, it is nice to be able to repeat the success any time you wish.

Black is always the same. If you have almost black or dark gray you can have a mismatch. You fix this by allowing no light to hit the absolutely black background. I have regularly shown how I do this but whatever works for you is fine. It is a lot harder to do this when shooting dark coins so learning to use postprocessing software is a good thing.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez3.html

 

is that in the day of night photography, in the hand

 

thanks all, iam now go for the day lamp in the night make the photo

 

I think this is it. I need to work harder on the no light but getting enough light on the coin.

 

here's a coin i've been working on, a recently posted faustina sestertius.

sellers pic...



edited in gimp....




my pic, indoors, reverse (or very similar pic...i look many, got mixed up) unedited unedited coping. ..



edited full pic (gimp)...




coin taken in full daylight (noonish)....




gimp edit...




they all look like the coin, which looks more like it depend on where i take the coin. i'm not sure which one to go with.

 

That is a night-and-day difference.

 

light on the coin is good,

Indeed,
Photo 2, i did it not photograve from above,i did it stand up in a coin standaard.