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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 4403410, member: 1765&quot;]Copper is very touchy, especially when you&#039;re photographing it for someone else to view on their system so that they can make a purchase decision.&nbsp; So much of what someone thinks about copper is the color.&nbsp; If you&#039;re off just a little, chocolate brown can turn into a corroded pinkish brown or a verdigris riddled greenish brown.&nbsp; Undersaturation can give your coin that &quot;dug&quot; look, and oversaturation can make your coin look messed with.&nbsp; Get your white balance right, you say?&nbsp; Well, there are 4 other factors thwarting you there.&nbsp; First, the light in which you are used to looking at the coin may not be the same as what you&#039;re using to light the coin, so you aren&#039;t sure which color to trust.&nbsp; Second, that laptop display or monitor your using is most likely not correctly calibrated, meaning the color is off, making you see, for example, a pinkish coin and leading you to inadvertently make it greener when you correct it.&nbsp; The other two things working against you are at the other end of the sale.&nbsp; The buyer&#039;s display is also probably not calibrated and you have no idea what light they&#039;re using to view the coin they receive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Control what you can here.&nbsp; Calibrate your display with a color calibration tool and be consistent with your photo and viewing lights.&nbsp; Verify white balance by shooting a white balance target and checking its histogram on your computer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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