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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2658411, member: 19463"]First I would like to thank you for taking over the position as most creative photographer. I might have been a contender but I don't have a dog. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bronze strikes me as perfect. I'd be proud to take a picture that good. The denarius obverse is overexposed and just needs to have the exposure cut by half or 3/4. It is beyond what could be corrected in postprocessing without introducing problems with the tones. This is a simple fix if the camera allows manual exposure and not if it only allows you to take what it gives. The reverse is not all that bad and might be darkened just a bit but would be better reshot with less light. For silver, you might get better results if you worked in less glaring sunlight. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, there is only one shade of black. In 8 bit photography it is recorded as 00 red, 00 green and 00 blue. Those are hexadecimal numbers so there are 256 levels of each color until we get to ffffff which is what we call white. Most of us can't see numbers that are close to each extreme but when you can't match blacks it means that one of your blacks is not a full 000000. </p><p><br /></p><p>Clouds rolling in and puppies walking by are good reasons for using artificial light. I have tried the idea but clouds are harder to train. The shots below were taken with a Samsung Galaxy 6 and sunlight coming in the window. I decided to try employing the assistance of a pet but I got no cooperation. He refused to turn the coin over so I could shoot the other side. Are puppies easier to train?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]589325[/ATTACH] </p><p>Will this picture be good enough to sell the coin on eBay or should I try again?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2658411, member: 19463"]First I would like to thank you for taking over the position as most creative photographer. I might have been a contender but I don't have a dog. The bronze strikes me as perfect. I'd be proud to take a picture that good. The denarius obverse is overexposed and just needs to have the exposure cut by half or 3/4. It is beyond what could be corrected in postprocessing without introducing problems with the tones. This is a simple fix if the camera allows manual exposure and not if it only allows you to take what it gives. The reverse is not all that bad and might be darkened just a bit but would be better reshot with less light. For silver, you might get better results if you worked in less glaring sunlight. For the record, there is only one shade of black. In 8 bit photography it is recorded as 00 red, 00 green and 00 blue. Those are hexadecimal numbers so there are 256 levels of each color until we get to ffffff which is what we call white. Most of us can't see numbers that are close to each extreme but when you can't match blacks it means that one of your blacks is not a full 000000. Clouds rolling in and puppies walking by are good reasons for using artificial light. I have tried the idea but clouds are harder to train. The shots below were taken with a Samsung Galaxy 6 and sunlight coming in the window. I decided to try employing the assistance of a pet but I got no cooperation. He refused to turn the coin over so I could shoot the other side. Are puppies easier to train? [ATTACH=full]589325[/ATTACH] Will this picture be good enough to sell the coin on eBay or should I try again?[/QUOTE]
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