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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2540606, member: 73983&quot;]Ok.&nbsp; The subject of this thread is the same 1943 Quarter as the &quot;What would you grade this 1943 Washington Quarter&quot; thread.&nbsp; However, this time it&#039;s not presented to you to assign a grade.&nbsp; Rather this time around, I am presenting this image in all of it&#039;s full 100% unsharpened, full resolution, unedited (with the exception of processing the RAW camera file, cropping and saving as JPEG) naked glory.&nbsp; I have never posted a full resolution image here before.&nbsp; I think this piece makes a fun example to study the flow of the silver as it was struck and forced to move into cavities under extreme pressure using well aged dies.&nbsp; This is for academic study and you are free to download and save the images if you wish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please don&#039;t comment on what you would grade it, there is another thread for that.&nbsp; I will be sending it off to PCGS economy service for grading when I have some other coins to accompany it that I won&#039;t mind not holding in my hands for 2 months.&nbsp; Instead this is for your viewing pleasure.</p><p><br /></p><p>For you camera geeks out there [USER=1892]@SuperDave[/USER], [USER=31773]@rmpsrpms[/USER], [USER=19094]@robec[/USER], [USER=1765]@messydesk[/USER] who are like me, want the technical info on this image.&nbsp; This was shot on a Nikon D800E DSLR using a Rodenstock APO-Rodagon D 1:4 75mm duplicating lens mounted on a Vivitar Macro Bellows System with Vivitar Focusing Rail attached to a Bogen copy stand.&nbsp; I used 3 Jansjo LED lights purchased from Ikea.&nbsp; Each light has the cap from a square half dollar tube with diffusing inserts I cut out from an old photoflex umbrella.&nbsp; The camera settings were set to Manual exposure mode tethered to my Mac and controlled using Nikon Camera Control Pro 2.&nbsp; The white balance was a custom white balance from a gray card.&nbsp; The lens aperture was set to f:8 with a shutter speed of 1/40th of a second at ISO 100.&nbsp; The image was captured with in camera Picture Control settings of &quot;Neutral&quot; in 14 bit RAW with no compression and processed using Photoshop CC 2014.&nbsp; I then made a circular selection and copied the quarter image to a new 5000 x 5000 px square document that had my logo already in place.&nbsp; I then used the Save for Web menu option and saved the image as JPEG High preset with the convert to sRGB option checked and embed color profile option checked.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of my images start at this resolution and I follow the same routine with the exception of adjusting camera settings and lighting as well as editing the image to match the in-hand color and brightness.&nbsp; When I post images on here the resolution is reduced by 1/4th to 1250 x 1250 px in order to make a better web presentation.&nbsp; I usually select the bicubic sharper method when reducing my images and never apply any other sharpening to the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any questions, at all, I will be more than happy to answer them for you.&nbsp; I enjoy helping others as much as some of the guys on here do.&nbsp; I am not going to hide how I do something to try and keep a trade secret as I have no trade secret.&nbsp; I enjoy photography both numismatic as well as nature and landscapes.&nbsp; I like to try to make money at it when I can, but mostly it&#039;s done for the fun of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know the gear I used to shoot this is not cheap, and I would not have been able to afford it had it not been for these forums and the knowledge I have gleaned from them.&nbsp; Most of what I have is from the proceeds I was able to make from the sale of the 1919 DDO Mercury Dime that I had found last year.&nbsp; I thank [USER=73698]@StrikeOutXXX[/USER] for creating the thread that brought my attention to that new variety at the time.&nbsp; Most people would not have bought a camera system with the money, but, I was a photo geek before I became a coin geek.&nbsp; I figured what better way to reminisce about a coin I have sold then to have very high detail images of them.&nbsp; Most of what I buy is not to keep, but rather to flip to buy better coins that eventually stay in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>So without further ado.&nbsp; Enjoy...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.wildlightphotoworkshops.com/CoinTalk/1943-Washington-Quarter-PCGS-Look-Obverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.wildlightphotoworkshops.com/CoinTalk/1943-Washington-Quarter-PCGS-Look-Reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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