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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 3076042, member: 90692&quot;]Try limiting the overall white footprint of the slab with black or dark color fabric.&nbsp; Also, you don&#039;t need really bright light, 25 watt each at 10 and 2 o&#039;clock seems balanced and helps with homemade diffusion materials.&nbsp; The coffee filter idea Casman offered is a good diffuse, the white ones, not brown, but that&#039;s why you need lower wattage, avoid fire danger and still have a strong enough diffused source(s) of illumination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Glare is always a problem with slabs and flips, just adjust angles until you get it right.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recommend cracking a slab for a photo, but flips are easy squeezy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver and clad is okay to use LED lights, which emit a stark, blue light, but cents/copper and gold seem to photograph better under tungsten, which is a redder spectrum, but perceived as yellow.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will see as you go as you try different things.&nbsp; Looks like you got a good camera, I like the potential...Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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