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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8333833, member: 134416&quot;]I experimented more with coin photography for AE, AV and AR.&nbsp; This time, I repurposed an unused cheapie headphone rest, which has a stiff rubber top.&nbsp; It makes an okay rest for small coins, but the raised edges make it harder for coins of Sestertius size on up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The photography station: a decrepit 1940 Philco chairside radio (basically a table) which I use for my record label photographs.&nbsp; The light source, a 100 year old lamp, lol. (LED light). Same workspace as previous tries.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;One of the AE, a dark Constans (not pictured), was more or less a failure (too blurry). It needs more light.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also experimented with white balance correction.&nbsp; I had used the dSLR. It has less megapixels (24) than the note (108), but offers raw mode.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, I think the raised holder for the coin made an improvement in the final results. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin photography is pretty frustrating and time-consuming.&nbsp; Just finishing one takes an incredible amount of time (photography, editing).&nbsp; Say an average of 15-30 minutes per coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if I finally improve dramatically, photographing my unphotographed coins will be a very long-time project.&nbsp; No use doing that until I&#039;m really satisfied with the results.</p><p><br /></p><p>Per the gold, I didnt want to risk any accidents with my Tiberius Apsimar, so I took the equivalent of a junk boxer in gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477351[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ex Marc breitsprecher, 2011.&nbsp; (That was the older tag in the flip).&nbsp; The reverse was so crude that I had to go back to the original dealer pic to figure which way was up.&nbsp; That result, so-so.&nbsp; The original pic was better.</p><p><br /></p><p>The differences in color of the coin background is due to white balance adjustments in editing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Original 2011 pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477353[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one I tried, a junk box Allen Berman Byzantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477358[/ATTACH]</p><p>The result, ehhhh.&nbsp; More light would help. The flash results were a total failure (way too much).&nbsp; I didn&#039;t bother to check if the flip had the right Sear number.&nbsp; The coin; worn&nbsp; and around VG, brown color.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now for the one with the most satisfying results; the silver.&nbsp; I had tried to photograph this one in my previous try, and the results are here for comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>This time:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477362[/ATTACH]</p><p>last time:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the improvised stand made a lot of difference on this one.&nbsp; Raising teh coin helped and also helped with the SLR lens not making a shadow (when I&#039;d be forced to bring it down low to the coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>I just realized: I think the rose is upside down again. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I don&#039;t know why I keep doing that.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have the individual obverse/reverse/label pictures and this can be fixed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though with the rose mistake, I think this effort is much improved.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Rhodes was a Christmas or birthday present from a couple years back.&nbsp; The coin store from whence the presents came had slabs for a while.&nbsp; Those might be harder to photograph. Or easier? Anyhow, it was a very thoughtful present.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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