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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 3408227, member: 31773&quot;]Getting back to the OP&#039;s question:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Indirect sunlight can give some nice looking images, but it&#039;s hard to reproduce, so you won&#039;t get the same result twice. Better to create a consistent illumination with diffused artificial lights. I like IKEA Jansjo LED gooseneck lamps, though unfortunately they are now discontinued items. There is still a lot of stock of them online, so they&#039;ll be around for a while. Get 3 of them and wrap some tissue around them to diffuse them. Put one at 2:00, one at 10:00 (both about 6&quot; away from the coin), and move the other around at maybe 24&quot; away from the coin to help fill in any dark areas. Alternatively you can put a few more layers of tissue on the third light and put it closer, which will improve diffusion if needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Get the main two lights as high an angle (nearest to the lens / optical axis) as you can. The biggest single problem I see with your images is the light is coming in at too low an angle.</p><p><br /></p><p>- I generally recommend operating around f11 effective aperture (I can explain why if you want). This means f5.6 for Cents, and f8 for Dollars. In the OP you state you&#039;re using f3.2, but that&#039;s really too big and can cause you problems. Better to stop down to f8 for you Dollar shots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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