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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2765721, member: 1892"]Bob, I - and many others here - can duplicate your technical prowess. We can achieve sharply-focused images, we can keep highlights from being blown out, shadows from obscuring detail, color as it is in the real world, contrast appropriate for the surfaces. What few can do is a more subtle thing, a talent which - unlike the skills I described above - cannot be taught. It's a difficult feature to describe, but you know it when you see it. It's the difference between, "Gee, this is a beautiful coin, portrayed at its' best" and, "Gee, this is what the coin is." It goes beyond capturing the "in-hand look" and captures the coin's essence. Rereading that, I smell a distinctive tone of psychobabble, but all the same it's there and palpable to me. I can achieve it, not always, but I know when I did. You, on the other hand, don't ever seem to fail to capture it. Coin after coin, whatever grade, whatever metal, regardless of luster, everything you post is the unadorned truth. There are others we see this from - Todd Pollock comes to mind - but it speaks to something which cannot be taught. I suspect Phil has the same touch, but he is in great part limited by the requirements of his employer's needs and the volume of his workload. You can teach the skill to get there, but only a talent knows when they're there and can duplicate it at will. You know. Every set of images you posted above is measurably better than the equivalent TrueView. It does the onlooker good to study them carefully and try to note the differences which make that a reality, because it's the difference between "really, really good" and "not improvable."[/QUOTE]

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