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Message:: [QUOTE="illini420, post: 795733, member: 19423"]I take most of my own photos, but not all of them in my sets are my pics as I've has some professionally imaged and others were images from the seller of the coin where I thought the photo was already as good or better than I could do.  This 1908-S MS66RB was one that I took though.  I just have a $300 or so Nikon coolpix, nothing fancy and I just use a small halogen desklamp and another small desklamp with a cheapo 60 watt bulb in it (that's my lighting set up because that's what I have on my desk!!).  The key to getting good shots I think is to use a tripod or copy stand on your camera and to use the camera's timer so there is no movement from you pressing the button.  As far as the colors coming out, not sure how to really do it as that is just the way this coin looks (though I did have to take several shots before I got one that looked acceptable, but even then there is still glare on the indian's face that I couldn't seem to avoid).  I also sometimes open the photos I take in Microsoft Office Picture Manager which comes with Office in order to "autocorrect" my image if they don't come out ok.  Here is the teletrade photos from when I bought it for comparison, it's just an amazing looking Indian Cent: <img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1908sms66rb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]