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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3243305, member: 77413&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"></p><p>Absolutely! <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/animation-and-coin-photography.297411/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/animation-and-coin-photography.297411/"><i>Animation</i> and Coin Photography</a> should get you started. The post in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/posts/2949112/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/posts/2949112/">Post your coin photography set-up</a> shows my camera setup.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thread starts with some early attempts, and the process improves with suggestions from other members and improvements with the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, I put my camera stand on a turntable and light the coin with two or three lights from above. I focus on the coin, tweak the position of the lights, and adjust the exposure to suit. Then I take a picture, rotate the camera+coin platform a bit, and repeat for 9 photos. The relationship between the camera and coin never changes - just the rotational position under the lights. I flip the coin over and take nine of the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I do some pretty straightforward editing.</p><ol> <li>Rotate one image so it&#039;s straight.</li> <li>Crop it so the coin is framed.</li> <li>Replace the background with black.</li> <li>Resize to a size you like. I use 800x800 pixels.<br /> </li> <li>Do <i>exactly</i> the same for the other 8, since they all have the same position to the camera, same lights, and same exposure.</li> <li>Do steps 1-5 for the reverse.</li> <li>Join image 1 of the obverse and image 1 of the reverse to make a 800x1600 image. The obverse and reverse can be side-by-side or above and below. You can find examples of both that I have posted.</li> <li>Repeat with the pairs of images 2-9.</li> <li>Feed the 9 images to a GIF animation tool. Each frame is shown for about .12 seconds. Show the frames in the order 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, and set the animation to loop forever.</li> </ol><p>This simulates moving the coin back and forth under a light, taking a little more than a second to rock it one way, and a second to rock it back.</p><p><br /></p><p>The suggested thread is only a couple of pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, if you have questions, feel free to ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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