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<p>[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3532177, member: 8959"]I consider myself a strict and poor amateur when it comes to taking pictures of my coins. No pretenses here.</p><p><br /></p><p>My equipment consists of my wife's handheld camera, a south facing window sill, and natural sunlight, (not much of that in my area, though...!)</p><p><br /></p><p>In spite of my amateur skills and primitive equipment, I consider my photos to at least tell the viewer what the coin actually looks like in hand. I think I capture the natural tones and in-hand look fairly well. No glamour, just the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I am almost always unable to capture lustre (unless I happen to get a good shot), and invariably my photos tend to be <b>too dark</b> at the bottom, and often, (not always) <b>too shiny/bright at the top</b>. I really struggle with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I am a copper collector, shooting coppers representatively is important to me. Take these pictures, for example - as a copper collector, they tell me the essence of what I need to know: they reveal what the surfaces actually look like (pits, scratches and nicks and all). They also reproduce adequately the colour in-hand, as it really is. All key variables for early coppers collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the pics - what do you think? awful? OK, but...?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938392[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938393[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3532177, member: 8959"]I consider myself a strict and poor amateur when it comes to taking pictures of my coins. No pretenses here. My equipment consists of my wife's handheld camera, a south facing window sill, and natural sunlight, (not much of that in my area, though...!) In spite of my amateur skills and primitive equipment, I consider my photos to at least tell the viewer what the coin actually looks like in hand. I think I capture the natural tones and in-hand look fairly well. No glamour, just the coin. However, I am almost always unable to capture lustre (unless I happen to get a good shot), and invariably my photos tend to be [B]too dark[/B] at the bottom, and often, (not always) [B]too shiny/bright at the top[/B]. I really struggle with that. Since I am a copper collector, shooting coppers representatively is important to me. Take these pictures, for example - as a copper collector, they tell me the essence of what I need to know: they reveal what the surfaces actually look like (pits, scratches and nicks and all). They also reproduce adequately the colour in-hand, as it really is. All key variables for early coppers collectors. Here are the pics - what do you think? awful? OK, but...? [ATTACH=full]938392[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]938393[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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