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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2658293, member: 42634&quot;]Tried a few experiments with natural sunlight, my crappy old camera, and some junk I could find around my house.&nbsp; My goal was to NOT have to &quot;paint&quot; in the black backgrounds in Gimp.&nbsp;&nbsp; So I grabbed the lens cover that had fallen off of my desk magnifier, a glue stick (coin stand), and my binoculars in their case (background &quot;shader&quot;).&nbsp; Here&#039;s the set up...[ATTACH=full]589270[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the result...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]589271[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the original pics I took about 3 years ago...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/roman%20coins/102_2180.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/roman%20coins/102_2180.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/roman%20coins/102_2180.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/roman%20coins/102_2183.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/roman%20coins/102_2183.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/roman%20coins/102_2183.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Not bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, there are problems working with the sunlight....like a canine eclipse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]589275[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I tried this serrate denarius, because I really didn&#039;t want to have to paint this background.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/roman%20coins/102_4229_zps5ee6926c.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/roman%20coins/102_4229_zps5ee6926c.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/roman%20coins/102_4229_zps5ee6926c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This SUCKED.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sunlight was WAY to bright.&nbsp; Switched from glue stick to marker cap for coin stand if your asking yourself why something is in the pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]589282[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So I grabbed my mom&#039;s old Willard Scott book and shaded the coin.&nbsp; Then I couldn&#039;t focus it.&nbsp; When I got it as close as I could after several pics, I had to use gimp to make the background the same color, because clouds stared rolling in...changing the lighting with every damned pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the best I could do after MANY pics and editing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]589288[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Couldn&#039;t match the background (I&#039;ve heard there are 50 shade of gray, but I didn&#039;t know there were 50 shades of black also) or the coin sides.&nbsp; This was a FAIL.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I&#039;ll use this for AE coins in the future, but not so much for silver stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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