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<p>[QUOTE="IMP Shogun, post: 7742273, member: 114683"]Happy Friday!</p><p><br /></p><p>The below denarius has really good surfaces, even if some of the legend got squished or clipped off the compact flan. This coin has an amazing luster and high relief. The high relief is a double edged sword because it's difficult to have a sharp photo of everything. It also makes me crazy adjusting settings to compensate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The below photo has been resized for the site, but it is shot at 1/60 and f/16 but then the ISO has to go out a lot in order to compensate and insanely this is 3200, whereas I normally try to make it 100-400. At 1/15 and f/9 the ISO can be set in my comfortable range of 100-400. Does anyone else find themselves having to get comfortable at insane settings? I normally try to do f/6 to f/8 and ISO 100 with the shutter speed slowing down a lot as the compensation and of course less depth of field. I can usually fix the brightness issues but I think it doesn't look good when the brightness of the original photo is off and fixed in post-production.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is starting to feel like golf for me where you can improve tremendously and knock off 15-20 strokes, but then getting that next 3 or 4 is difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>Enough chatter, here's the payoff:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/trajan-denarius.17770/full?lightbox=1&last_edit_date=1625244600" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>17mm; 3.35g / RIC II 115 / struck ~110 A.D. </p><p><br /></p><p>What would be your ideal setting for aperture, shutter speed and ISO or is it a constant battle of trial and error like me (and different for just about every coin)? I tend to start at f/6 1/8 and ISO 100 and start pulling levers like an idiot until I give up and settle or actually like the finished product.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IMP Shogun, post: 7742273, member: 114683"]Happy Friday! The below denarius has really good surfaces, even if some of the legend got squished or clipped off the compact flan. This coin has an amazing luster and high relief. The high relief is a double edged sword because it's difficult to have a sharp photo of everything. It also makes me crazy adjusting settings to compensate. The below photo has been resized for the site, but it is shot at 1/60 and f/16 but then the ISO has to go out a lot in order to compensate and insanely this is 3200, whereas I normally try to make it 100-400. At 1/15 and f/9 the ISO can be set in my comfortable range of 100-400. Does anyone else find themselves having to get comfortable at insane settings? I normally try to do f/6 to f/8 and ISO 100 with the shutter speed slowing down a lot as the compensation and of course less depth of field. I can usually fix the brightness issues but I think it doesn't look good when the brightness of the original photo is off and fixed in post-production. This is starting to feel like golf for me where you can improve tremendously and knock off 15-20 strokes, but then getting that next 3 or 4 is difficult. Enough chatter, here's the payoff: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/media/trajan-denarius.17770/full?lightbox=1&last_edit_date=1625244600[/IMG] 17mm; 3.35g / RIC II 115 / struck ~110 A.D. What would be your ideal setting for aperture, shutter speed and ISO or is it a constant battle of trial and error like me (and different for just about every coin)? I tend to start at f/6 1/8 and ISO 100 and start pulling levers like an idiot until I give up and settle or actually like the finished product.[/QUOTE]
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