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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 9299386, member: 77814&quot;]the problem most people have focusing with a cell phone is</p><p>(a) being too close for the cell phone camera to properly focus; and</p><p>(b) having a complex background that the camera would rather focus on than the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>With lighting from a window one needs to put the cell phone away from the window (window, coin, camera) so the camera does not make a shadow on your subject.&nbsp; If the light is directly above you&#039;ll get a shadow. </p><p>LEFT: camera making shadow on the coin</p><p>RIGHT: camera furthest from the light source</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1522024[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When you start wanting shadows a particular way or colors you&#039;ll have to start sterilizing your camera space.</p><p>(a) the more colors around you camera area the more potential for Color Casting - this is then where people start using &quot;light tents&quot; to provide one type of light, and a diffused light.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s so much more to it .... but just getting some of the basics corrected cam greatly improve things.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you show a picture of how you take the pictures we can then point out how to quickly improve it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/natural-light-photography.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/natural-light-photography.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/natural-light-photography.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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