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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2365471, member: 112&quot;]Exactly the same issues faced by a whole lot of people who try to take their own coin pics, and with the same results. Which of course is why they quite often choose to use the services of somebody else to take their coin pics for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to have the same problems, suffered the same results. I experimented with everything imaginable from different kinds of lights, different kinds of bulbs, to flashlights and Coleman lanterns. I used diffusion shields on the lights and diffusion shields around the coins, even tried using both at the same time. Then one day I just stumbled across a technique that worked for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Taking coin pics is like everything else, there are tricks of the trade - a lot of them, depending on what you are trying to do. To capture luster, to capture toning, to capture cameo, each may require a slightly different technique to achieve the desired results. But it can be done even when one cannot do it himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what Dave mentioned, axial lighting, that works too. <a href="http://www.school-of-digital-photography.com/2013/11/using-axial-lighting-for-photographing-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.school-of-digital-photography.com/2013/11/using-axial-lighting-for-photographing-coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.school-of-digital-photography.com/2013/11/using-axial-lighting-for-photographing-coins.html</a>&nbsp; But there are other methods to accomplish the same things that does. Bottom line it&#039;s all about light and angles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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