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Message:: [QUOTE="Ordinary Fool, post: 2778983, member: 85318"]Much, much more incident lighting (light up the entire room since you are photographing, not grading and perhaps near a window if you don't have enough overhead and nearby lamps to brighten the room) and much less direct lighting from your sources onto the subject. You can also try diffusing your direct lighting with a curtain of napkins, toilet tissue, linen etc. A plain white background is less than ideal. 18% gray is great for white balance automatic exposure, but, I prefer just about anything that catches my eye estimated to be closer to 18% than white or solid black, and I like it to have sharp crisp lines, like say the peel off adhesive protective strip on this large Mead legal envelope I just spotted on my desk. A non-plain background is nice because; it provides a solid reference for focus, depth of field and a reference for your intelligent coin tube make-shift tripod being stable with your 'shutter' technique. Beyond that, it will show the size of your pixels which provide the viewer with some reference to the image quality level. You're on the right track.[/QUOTE]