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<p>[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 3997324, member: 77413"]I agree. In spite of your misgivings, it does show off the luster and the coin is outstanding.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another trick I forgot to mention is that I set the camera to fully manual settings. Once I set the focus and exposure it stays the same for all 9 of my images. That really helps with consistency of the images.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve shown this animation before, but here you can see the effects of</p><ul> <li>Keeping the coin and camera in a constant position</li> <li>Forcing the camera settings to be the same for every shot</li> <li>Moving the lighting relative to the coin, in my case by <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-coin-photography-set-up.229658/page-9#post-2949112" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-coin-photography-set-up.229658/page-9#post-2949112">using a turntable to rotate the camera and coin under the lights</a></li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]1052383[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You’ve come this far! Are you sure you don’t want to keep trying?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 3997324, member: 77413"]I agree. In spite of your misgivings, it does show off the luster and the coin is outstanding. Another trick I forgot to mention is that I set the camera to fully manual settings. Once I set the focus and exposure it stays the same for all 9 of my images. That really helps with consistency of the images. I’ve shown this animation before, but here you can see the effects of [LIST] [*]Keeping the coin and camera in a constant position [*]Forcing the camera settings to be the same for every shot [*]Moving the lighting relative to the coin, in my case by [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-coin-photography-set-up.229658/page-9#post-2949112']using a turntable to rotate the camera and coin under the lights[/URL] [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]1052383[/ATTACH] You’ve come this far! Are you sure you don’t want to keep trying?[/QUOTE]
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