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Ok. This one is for you @SuperDave, I decided to spend waaaay too much time on a project. I wound up shooting 115 frames while I slowly turned this Lincoln under my cameras lens. I then assembled it in Photoshop and exported an animated gif. This mimics what it looks like with the lighting rotating all the way around the coin so you can see the luster and color come to life. This was my first attempt at something like this and I have to say it was fun and worthwhile.

 

WOW! That is COOL!

 

If you get this down to a science, that would be an amazing addition to your services!

Just curious - did you put the coin and camera on a turntable and rotate it under the lights?

 

Much cool.

Hit up rmpsrpms & messydesk for framerate tips and such if you like - they both employ this technique.

Isn't letting things get totally out of hand wonderful?

 

Is that a rusty die?
Nice cent!

 

Not that I am aware of.

 

It's just a pet peeve of mine. I try to figure, what is was, that caused the tone of a coin.

 

That is one cool graphic, I love it. Let me know if do that with anymore coins.

 

I will hit them up @rmpsrpms, @messydesk what do you guys think of my first attempt at an animated GIF? This particular animation was set to 24 frames per second with an endless loop. I shot a total of 115 RAW files. I didn't really think about that until about 1/4 of the way through and I didn't want to restart. Next time I will shoot in a smaller JPEG file.

Now to shoot the reverse!! LOL

 

Looks good! 115 is a lot of frames. I use 6, but then go forward and backward, so the GIF contains 10 frames (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2) and plays in an infinite loop. Resulting file size is the big reason I stop at 6. I then use about a 10 fps animation, otherwise it would be really fast.

 

Yeah, the image size of the one I posted is 20.6 MB. I am hosting it on my server otherwise I would not have been able to upload it here.

I assume for your's you are moving the lights rather than the coin?

 

No wonder I like it so much better on my home computer than my phone.

 

Yes. Holding them in my hands as I take the pictures. It looks really awkward, but it works well.

 

I've never seen anything like this. Have posted your GIF's here I'd love to see them.

 

Since this is a Lincoln thread...

 

Incredible. I am amazed at the beauty the light can show simply by moving it just a little and the way you capture it is incredible.

 

This thread is now bringing my cheap smartphone to its' knees.