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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 4441122, member: 1765&quot;]No-relief, reflective coins are very difficult to make look good.&nbsp; One reason is because coins themselves, while impressive in their depth of mirrors, aren&#039;t particularly photogenic.&nbsp; For Jason&#039;s quarters, I&#039;d probably pull out a sheet of paper and use it as a light reflector, giving a very low-contrast light.&nbsp; You need the light source to have a very limited dynamic range, since the coin does you no help in diffusing it.&nbsp; Every bright reflection is oversaturated.&nbsp; Every shadow is black.&nbsp; Most of the coin is a flat surface that you need to somehow place in between.&nbsp; Watching the image histogram while shooting is important so that you see just how much of the image is being lost in shadows and highlights.&nbsp; Shadow and highlight detail can be recovered somewhat in post-processing unless it has been lost (unless you don&#039;t believe in post-processing).</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few approaches with using a piece of paper.&nbsp; One is to make a trifold tent to place around the coin like 3 sides of a square, leaving the other side open for the light source.&nbsp; Sometimes this works.&nbsp; Another is that I&#039;ll tear a hole in the middle of the paper and cram it onto the end of my lens so it looks like I&#039;m shooting through an umbrella.&nbsp; Then I&#039;ll point the lights at the paper, or maybe one light at the paper and one at the coin from a distance.&nbsp; I could go on, but by now you should get the picture that it&#039;s tricky and complicated.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have such a coin handy to play with, otherwise I could post some examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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