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Message:: [QUOTE="Roerbakmix, post: 4519444, member: 100731"]This is very interesting. I've been experimenting with axial lighting, though not with the professional material that [USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER] uses. As I'm not that handy with post-processing (except for increasing or decreasing contrast and brightness using the default photo application of windows 10), I try to make a) the background as dark as possible by photographing in an entirely black custom made photobooth and b) keep the light as much as possible on the coin, and not around. I use a Nikon d3200 with a cheap Cosina macro lens. A few examples on dark, shiny, small and big coins (in that order):[ATTACH=full]1119623[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1119624[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1119625[/ATTACH] Shiny:[ATTACH=full]1119626[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1119627[/ATTACH] Small:[ATTACH=full]1119628[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1119629[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1119630[/ATTACH] (small and concave ... difficult! Used a very small aperture of F22) Large:[ATTACH=full]1119631[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1119632[/ATTACH] With relatively simple tools, you can make nice photo's if you use the photo technique of [USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER] - axial lighting. I've posted a short tutorial on CT recently (just search for axial lighting). Another tip is to place the coin above the background (ie. a black piece of velt absorbs most of the light, thus giving a black background. Placing the coin on a pencil or so, say 5-10 cm above this background results in dark background) [/QUOTE]

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