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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siggi Palma, post: 1132867, member: 18255&quot;]<font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Good morning fellow collectors, </font></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have gone up and down round and round with coin photography. </font></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have bought books, a high end camera, a macro lens, tripod, light bulbs ect. And for me the hassle was getting to be a little too much. Setup was way too big and lighting confusing and It felt like I was shooting for the moon in a studebaker. This is due to partially by the fact that I was missing the basic knowledge in photography and because I am lazy. As most of my pictures are for ebay and I needed to find a simpler way to save some time. </font></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">And this is what I came up with and have used since. This is not perfect but it does the job for me and its easy and far less costly and saves time.</font></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Camera </b></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The camera I use today is my girlfriend canon 600D instead of my canon 500D. It´s light and simple to use and with the important macro setting. From what I can see it costs about 99 USD on ebay. But I am sure you can find it for less. </font></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Lighting </b></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The best lighting for coins is natural daylight and what serious photagrephers try to do with their light setup is emulate that but adding a better control of angle. So what I have found is that if I take my coins to the window sill at noon and use a white paper from the printer as background. I can get a good resault and the light will show both the good and bad on the coin &quot; a honest photo &quot;. If the sun is to strong you can use a defuse paper. Cooking paper will do the trick. Tilting the camera a bit can also help with reflection of high luster. </font></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Software</b></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">A lot of people get nervous when it comes to software. I use photoshop and have for many years but it´s exspensive. You can find very good freeware such as gimp that will do most of same things for free like cropping, rezise ect. </font></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">The resault with out any editing</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/1-27.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With editing </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/3-14.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/11-7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Something I did for ebay</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/Iceland.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Any questions just ask </p><p>Siggi[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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