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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 837925, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t collect modern coins and the rules for ancients are different (we don&#039;t have proofs). I did learn a couple things trying to shoot this gold Indian:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/114684283.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All three are the same coin. Left is direct, center axial and right is a combination of the other two using Photoshop Elements stacking layers and moving the transparancy slider to get the balance wanted. I don&#039;t know if this is a good photo or not but it was fun and educational (and looks more like the coin than either of the parents).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When you want to shoot a coin at an angle, you can use a focus stacking program like CombineZ. You shoot several shots with different focus points sharp and the software selects the sharpest sections from the parents and makes one image with excessive depth of field. My sample is a test cut Athenian owl but the idea of the photo was to show the cut as much as to show the coin:</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/88067025.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The following shows the idea of the stack but the subject coin really didn&#039;t benefit from being shot at an angle:</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/111130430.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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