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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3148084, member: 36818&quot;]Here are a few comparisons showing my photos versus dealer photos. For each comparison, my photo is on the top. I have no idea what most dealers are doing when it comes to photography. As others have said, I&#039;ve learned that, in most cases, I should expect the coin to look better than the photo. Still, I pass on a lot of coins because the photography leaves me with too many questions.</p><p>_________________________</p><p><b>1.</b> The dealer photo has too much contrast, leaving the coin looking grainy and blowing out mid tones. It has a yellow cast and the edges are getting lost in the white background.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]805949[/ATTACH]</p><p>_________________________</p><p><b>2.</b> The dealer photo has super saturated color; it looks like a glow stick or maybe it&#039;s radioactive. Too much contrast leaves the coin looking grainy. Sloppy cropping leaves the edges of the coin in question.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]805950[/ATTACH]</p><p>_________________________</p><p><b>3.</b> The dealer photo is a mess. Blurry areas look like they were purposely smudged with the Smudge tool in Photoshop. Sloppy cropping obscures the edges of the coin. Low resolution leaves the coin looking pixellated. The photo has a yellowish-brown cast. There&#039;s some gunk on the reverse of the coin near Mars&#039;s elbow, which on the dealer photo looks like dark toning. I took a big chance buying this coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]805951[/ATTACH]</p><p>_________________________</p><p><b>4.</b> The dealer photo has super contrast, blowing out details in the highlights and mid tones and making the coin look mushy. This lends it a &quot;posterized&quot; effect, which helps to highlight the contours of figures and type, but this is nothing like how the coin looks in hand.[ATTACH=full]805952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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