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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sjlund, post: 1404979, member: 36879&quot;]Well, you&#039;ve made progress!</p><p><br /></p><p>The trick to blacking out the background is making sure that the light shining on the coin is much brighter than the light shining on the paper (whether that light on the paper is coming from the lamp, the room lights, a window, or whatever).&nbsp; You can tell that the lamp is throwing a fair amount of light at the paper because you can see the shadow of the coin stand.&nbsp; Try keeping room lights off, using something solid to block light from the lamp hitting the paper, and using a brighter lamp.&nbsp; I&#039;m using a 60 or 100 watt bulb (can&#039;t tell, the writing is rubbed off) about 2-3 inches from the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lack of sharpness in the photo looks like it is caused by high ISO sensitivity (how sensitive your camera will be to light).&nbsp; If you can keep your ISO set at ISO100, that would make for the sharpest picture - higher ISO numbers make more noise in the photo, seriously reducing sharpness, especially on a point-and-shoot camera.&nbsp; The problem with ISO100 is that the camera won&#039;t be sensitive enough to keep your shutter speed fast enough to hand-hold the camera without camera shake blur.&nbsp; To solve that issue, a tripod would be best, even an inexpensive one.&nbsp; I have my camera on a tripod, facing straight down.&nbsp; I have the camera set up on a 10-second timer so that when I press the shutter button the camera has 10 seconds to settle down before it takes the picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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