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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2786266, member: 1765&quot;]Your lights aren&#039;t high enough.&nbsp; You have too much light coming at a lowish angle from 11:00 to 1:00.&nbsp; Look at the T in TRVST.&nbsp; The top edge of the crossbar is white, the bottom edge is black.&nbsp; This tells me that the light is reflecting off the upper edge of the T into the camera, and not the surface.&nbsp; The O in GOD is another one that really shows where the light is coming from, especially because it&#039;s round.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you&#039;ve fixed that, you&#039;ll probably still have lighting issues under the chin and on the top of the obverse, since this is a high relief coin.&nbsp; Hold a white piece of paper at 6:00 to use as a fill reflector, and it will help fill in the shadows a little (you don&#039;t want a lot) and pull out some detail.&nbsp; I do this now and then on Mercury dimes obverses, Buffalo nickel reverses, and obverses of earlier Jefferson nickels and Washington quarters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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