So since I've been unable to add any new coins to the collection lately, i figured that i would appreciate the ones that I have a little more and finally get some good images together. One day I'll go get an actual camera, but until then, I've become decent enough using just my iPhone 5s. For these images, I am just holding the coin under a ceiling fan and snapping a picture. The editing was done with Photoscape. Seems pretty good, but they all seem to lose their color in the process. This particular coin should show some lovely pastel toning of rose and blue. Any advice on how to better capture that toning. Any other pointers are appreciated as well. If you noticed the grey text on the bottom, I am noting in which collection this coin is in. This is from my forth Jefferson's with proofs album. I like how you can sort of hide it within the image.
My wife borrowed my camera last weekend so I took these with a 5s. I found that tapping the focus quite a bit off center yielded a better image for some reason.
If you want to capture it, and very good iPhone 5 pix btw, play with angles of your camera to the coin as well as angles of your light source, and you may even want to play with various types of lights. Even playing with a pair of polarized sunglasses may easily yield the results you seek. The other obvious thing is potentially editing it and adjusting saturation and colors to show what you see to be there.
Use something (box, stack of books, upturned cup) to balance the phone on so you aren't holding it, and if you are motivated there are sub-$10 bluetooth shutter release thingies you can get (ie Amazon)...assuming they are fine with the 5 series (I have a 6). I'm also thinking I've read some people can get the shutter to release by voice command (an app? Siri?). Basically these two things will greatly reduce the amount of wiggle on the phone when snapping a picture. There are some really talented iPhone photographers on this forum...try doing a search for phone photography and you should find them.
