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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2795070, member: 19463&quot;]We often face the problem of what makes a good photo.&nbsp; Is it possible to have a photo that is too good or too accurate.&nbsp; It certainly is if the goal is to sell a coin that has minor flaws that can be overemphasized by sharp detail and harsh lighting.&nbsp; Color photos were rare a few decades ago but now we have to balance accurate color balance with fair and accurate detail.&nbsp; A small coin as viewed in hand at a coin show or in the average living room will not show small details like scratches in the same way as a unfortunately accurate digital photo.&nbsp; This coin shows quite a bit of surface texture even in the hand photo that might be easy to overemphasize in a &#039;studio&#039; image blowing up the coin to ten times its normal size.&nbsp; The auction photo looks like it had the contrast toned down to cancel out the glare from the glossy surfaces.&nbsp; I see things about both images that I prefer so this would certainly be a subject I would want to rephotograph several times before getting something I considered both fair and accurate.&nbsp;&nbsp; I keep telling myself not to buy coins I know will be hard to shoot but I am a slow learner. I want detail when it is in my favor but not so much when that detail could be called faults.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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