Well, since the 2 weeks I have been a member of CT I finally posted some pics! I played around with my camera and lighting enough to get some half decent pictures I purchased last week. All the picture failures I had since playing around with my camera finally got me to understand a few of the basics in described on Mark Goodman's website. The main one was the macro setting! Anyhow, let me display the pics and see what you guys & gals think:
Well evidently I do not know what I am doing. Took me too many clicks to finally be able to find the pictures. Clicking on one of the attached pictures did not work, but clicking on the gallery button did seem to work. Sigh - too much work. Still not bad - a little fuzzy, but pretty good for the first try.
I posted them in the gallery but didnt know about the 'make your own album' function and link it up that way. I will have to try again, lol. If you check in the gallery and under cent + dollar you can see them way better there for now. I am going to spend the next few days working on impoving my pics and updating this thread. I imagine this will be a work in progress. I need to make an album, repost pics there and link the gallery I believe. I also checked the thread about uploading pics AFTER I posted this, oops.... Talk about being silly. A large portion of my collection is raw so once I do, I am hoping everyone gives them a look over.
I am sure we will enjoy all of them. I found(and still do) find taking pictures of the coins difficult. I have two really nice buffalo nickels I just can't seem to capture well enough and tonight the batteries died on the camera after 12 or so tries with different lighting. Sigh - still this beat the heck out of doing the dishes.
Another try! Heres a few more tries at less blurry pics. Since I don't have a stand yet and enough clear bulb wattage the luster and some of the details seem to not be showing up. They are decent I guess, but ugh! I need to get a better camera too. Still working with what I had before I read Goodman's guide which was basically a camera and a lamp!
