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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1723956, member: 19065&quot;]<b>@NK</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Curious why you shoot the coin with <i>any </i>such color backgrounds (raspberry (=magenta/maroon?) and cyan), then crop the coin out of it&#039;s background and present it on a rich colored background (seen here)?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Try to shoot against white, black or a 50% neutral gray background and you&#039;ll eliminate the false color which the the other background colors impart on your coin.&nbsp; I can &#039;see&#039; the overall effect of the warm and cool color difference from the backgrounds in each coin image and that gives a false color reading. That simply defeats the purpose of trying to capture the brilliant color range of your coins&#039; toning. Any color background when you are shooting is reflecting some spectrum of that color and will be picked up by the camera, be it shot on film or a digital sensor. Those lamps will serve you well, but a color background is defeating the purpose of the balanced light you want falling on your subject. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the presentation... If your intention is to show-off the toning colors on your coin, but you have surrounded the subject matter with a 100% saturated background, this is also fooling our eyes. We see and sense way too much &quot;warm&quot; color looking at this image file. That&#039;s distracting our eyes and visual reading of the &quot;WOW! color&quot; on your coin that I&#039;m sure you hoped to capture, share and impress others with. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most coin images are presented on a black or white solid background and only feature the coin and it&#039;s merits. I think you should try things this way for more accurate results. </p><p><br /></p><p>Using lamps such as you are, you should also do test shots with a range of ISOs, above and below what you think you should be shooting. Also note the lifespan of your bulbs as they too change over time. When you get a new lamp, and try a set up of various angles and distances of the lights from the subject, and if you use other lenses, keep in mind that each unique session and arrangement of all these factors matters and can affect your outcome. Many photographers keep notes and measured settings of these factors to reproduce image quality from one shoot to the next.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given all the above tips and thoughts, there&#039;s always digital editing to get the right balance you may not achieve in your shots, but there again, we will all see it differently as we are all using different monitors of varying quality and resolution. You can go bananas trying to get all these technical things sorted out and still not get everyone on the same page, so start with eliminating the easy stuff like not shooting on color influencing backgrounds, rather than confusing any advice that pricey equipment and software is the key. </p><p><br /></p><p>It looks to me like there&#039;s quite a lot of color on your coin and will really pop when it&#039;s not competing with other colors.&nbsp; Sometimes it takes many attempts to get it just right, but the effort is well worth the labor. Hope some of these ideas helped. :thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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