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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 4422451, member: 9270&quot;]Lighting is very important when photographing coins.</p><p>Too much and you end up overexposed which washes out details.</p><p>Too little and you end up underexposed which doesn&#039;t give you details (the famous dark circle).</p><p>This is why I highly recommend a non-reflective black or dark gray background.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC slabs with their white inserts cause problems.</p><p>You want the light that your camera collects to be as much from the coin as possible.</p><p>The NGC white insert tends to cause underexposure; you get too much light from the insert and not enough from the coin.</p><p>This is why I suggest using a non-reflective black mask to cover and much of the insert as possible with out blocking out part of the coin or putting a shadow on it.</p><p>The ultimate goal is to have the picture look like the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are pairs of pictures of the same NGC-slabbed coin with and without a mask.</p><p>These pictures show a slight but visible difference in exposure.</p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/ObvMatch.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/RevMatch.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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