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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dave_in_delaware, post: 2621374, member: 82414&quot;]Well, I&#039;ve experimented with my typical setup at home. It&#039;s sunny today but the sun isn&#039;t around the house on my &quot;photography window&quot; side yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, this is strictly natural lighting that comes through the window. No artificial lights.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve varied the angle, trying flat, tilting away from the camera, and tilting towards the camera. Flat made the toning turn out darker than it is. Tilting towards the camera cut off some much-needed light. I settled with tilting away from the camera a little, which basically tilts the coin towards the light more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve varied the background between black and white. White still makes it seem washed out. So I stuck with the black background.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have the camera set up directly above the coin (on a tripod). And the lens ends up about 5 inches away. I&#039;m using macro mode, the timer, 1600x1200 TIFF, ISO 64, Daylight white balance, spot metering, natural color mode, exposure brightness of 1.0 EV, and program exposure mode. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the best I can get using natural light coming through my window.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]575259[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]575261[/ATTACH] </p><p>The obverse is definitely changing colors more than the reverse. Both sides of the coin do look a little dull on the raised areas, possibly from someone (not me) trying to clean the toning off? I&#039;m not sure. It&#039;s not the brightest or shiniest looking bullion I have, but I bought it because the obverse toning was pretty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, the photo still doesn&#039;t do the toning justice compared to in-hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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