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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 4401722, member: 1765&quot;]He usually took two pictures, not just one, and did so as a backup in case something happened to one of them.&nbsp; He knew what he wanted the picture to look like before he took it, and knew what it would take to get it.&nbsp; The glass plates were just the beginning, however.&nbsp; A huge amount of time was spent in the darkroom doing processing, adjusting exposure in certain zones of his photos to get the look he had in mind.&nbsp; He actually looked forward to the day when &quot;electronic photos&quot; would make all the processing steps much easier and faster.</p><p><br /></p><p>Such it is with coins.&nbsp; If you know what you want something to look like and know what tools you have at your disposal to do it, you use them.&nbsp; Extended bit depth from raw images that enable localized exposure control can make up for not being able to light a certain part of the coin the way you want because of the behavior of the luster.&nbsp; Adjusting color saturation to match the coin in post-processing will avoid clipping color channels by doing it automatically in the camera.&nbsp; Advanced, multi-frequency filtering techniques can let you adjust the appearance of details and levels of the background.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, if your picture is no good to begin with, you&#039;re just putting lipstick on a pig.&nbsp; If you know what you&#039;re doing with all the tools you have, you&#039;re a fool not to use them.&nbsp; If you think the automatic settings on a camera are always going to make it unnecessary to process further, then you&#039;re just a fool.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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