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<p>[QUOTE="Martin Gray, post: 561118, member: 17996"]I am normally a very organized individual. But photographing these coins has not been very organized at times. First of all there are several steps for 'photographing these coins'. They are gathering the coins from collectors and dealers who appreciate what I am doing with the book; doing the actual photography of the coins; after having it developed, label the back of the 4x6 prints with the County, Denomination, Living species, Year, Metal, Diameter; do all the photoshopping for all of the photographs, I average 3 coins per hour. Hundreds of coins to photoshop takes hundreds of hours to do. Lastly, I have to store all the photoshopped coin files in specific folders dedicated to each of the six species groups. I've been at this for five months so far and there is a lot more to the story than just that.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the upshot of all this is that I need to update the list that shows the coins I still need to photograph. The list is pretty darn accurate as it is. Sometimes I keep a particular coin on the 'Need to photograph' list, while it will also show up on the list of coins that I have already photographed. The reason the coin appears on both lists is because the coin that I have already photographed is not a clear enough example of what I am looking for. I need to get another example of that coin so I can photograph it again.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any of the coins on my list, or other coins of a similar nature, please tell me. Then I will tell you right where I am with the 'Need to photograph' list.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for helping with this project - which really seems to inspire people who look at the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Martin Gray, post: 561118, member: 17996"]I am normally a very organized individual. But photographing these coins has not been very organized at times. First of all there are several steps for 'photographing these coins'. They are gathering the coins from collectors and dealers who appreciate what I am doing with the book; doing the actual photography of the coins; after having it developed, label the back of the 4x6 prints with the County, Denomination, Living species, Year, Metal, Diameter; do all the photoshopping for all of the photographs, I average 3 coins per hour. Hundreds of coins to photoshop takes hundreds of hours to do. Lastly, I have to store all the photoshopped coin files in specific folders dedicated to each of the six species groups. I've been at this for five months so far and there is a lot more to the story than just that. So, the upshot of all this is that I need to update the list that shows the coins I still need to photograph. The list is pretty darn accurate as it is. Sometimes I keep a particular coin on the 'Need to photograph' list, while it will also show up on the list of coins that I have already photographed. The reason the coin appears on both lists is because the coin that I have already photographed is not a clear enough example of what I am looking for. I need to get another example of that coin so I can photograph it again. If you have any of the coins on my list, or other coins of a similar nature, please tell me. Then I will tell you right where I am with the 'Need to photograph' list. Thanks for helping with this project - which really seems to inspire people who look at the coins. martin[/QUOTE]
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