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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 801094, member: 19463&quot;]<font face="Arial"><font size="2">It has snowed a lot here today so I spent the time&nbsp; inside playing with coin illumination schemes.&nbsp; I decided to try bouncing the&nbsp; light off a large white card placed above the camera so the coin received&nbsp; diffuse light from all sides.&nbsp; This resulted in good light for some silver but&nbsp; was less pleasing with darker coins.&nbsp; The next stem was to mix in a little&nbsp; direct light with the bounce making a compromise.&nbsp; This was done by allowing&nbsp; some of the bounced light to spill onto the area with the coin but most still&nbsp; was directed at the card.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p>&nbsp;<font face="Arial"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.pbase.com/image/121534510.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbase.com/image/121534510.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.pbase.com/image/121534510.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.pbase.com/image/121534510.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbase.com/image/121534510.jpg" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></font></font></p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;<font face="Arial"><font size="2">The top row on the image shows a &#039;normal&#039; direct&nbsp; lighting result.&nbsp; The middle row shows the bounce light.&nbsp; The bottom is the&nbsp; mixed.&nbsp; Each has some merits depending on which coin was used (I did this on&nbsp; more than these three) so I am still unable to find one set up best suited for&nbsp; every coin.&nbsp; Overall, the mixed light seems to work well with bronze or dark&nbsp; coins while there is more room for different opinions on which looks best for&nbsp; silver. Opinions?</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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