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Message:: [QUOTE="Evan8, post: 9293455, member: 74343"]Yeah, as someone who is learning a DSLR camera with a 100mm macro lens, it's so much easier to get the lighting looking better since the camera is farther away. I use two LED desk lights and try to arrange them for axial lighting. This Morgan I have came out decent but the obverse is DMPL while the reverse is PL. The reverse shows my axial lighting pretty well. [ATTACH=full]1522009[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1522010[/ATTACH] When it comes to phone cameras, I never had great luck. I learned however, that if you diffuse the lighting and maybe even tilt the coin slightly you get much better results. I never used my phone for much coin photography but I was able to capture this matte proof with my old Android Note 4 which turned out pretty good. I laid the phone horizontally with diffused lights above and in front of the phone, shining right on the coin. Then, with the coin laying flat I tilted the phone backwards slightly to capture the angle of reflected light. [ATTACH=full]1522013[/ATTACH]   I never used a phone much for coins as I used a Nikon point and shoot camera until it stopped working. It did okay for the job but I was never happy with the results until I got the "big boy camera." Here is the same matte proof but with the Nikon camera: [ATTACH=full]1522014[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1522015[/ATTACH] As you can see, the slab made the lighting more difficult to capture the colors. Overall, it takes so much time and experimentation to get the lighting just right. And of course it depends on the coin as well. In my experience, it has been a lot of trial and error, mostly error. But with patience I am getting better.[/QUOTE]

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