Practicing my "photography" New Pictures

I'm just gonna post pictures of some of my coins and I'll update pictures as I improve my methods. Here are a few to start off

Feel free to post your own work!

 

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I really like that Lincoln!!

 

me too

 

Lots of blue in those images.
Is that actually the way the coins look in hand?
If not, what's your light source?

 

Me three
Is it graded or raw?

 

Nice Lincoln!

 

Um, I think you're going to have to change the name of your studio...

 

Ha I just kinda shoot for fun so I thought it was funny

I use a white led lamp. The Morgan is actually toned the teal on obverse and has blue in the rim of reverse.
But the Lincoln takes the blue color under white light. If I use a yellow standard bulb it has a DARK brown purple color. Almost a straight brown but you can just tell it's different.

@heavycam.monstervam it is raw. I would love to get it graded one day!

I'll post the Lincoln with a yellow bulb.

 

So I did untouched photos (except light, I had to dim the reflectiveness) Two different angles of both sides and I put white and yellow light comparisons so you can see the in hand different dependent on light source.

 

What are you using to take these photos? Do you use lots of lights? Are you using something like photoshop to create those backgrounds?

 

Everything I do is just using my phone and a homemade setup I built with a pocket flashlight, golf tee, curtain bracket and, a 2x4.



I use "image crop" (they have a circular cropper) and "Collage Maker" app on my phone (Android market) and then I premade my background using Microsoft word so I could pick fonts.

I'm just throwing a bunch of little pieces together and if you play with stuff enough you can get some decent pictures!

 

This seems like MY kinda set up !!!
You should sell these (kits) for a modest profit on CT

You could call it >> The Lux Unit

Huh? Huh?

 

LMAO. Lux is German for light as well so it makes sense! My first initial is D and my last name Lux so I usually call everything I do the DeLux version ha

 

Nice setup! I've said, for just general web purposes, use whatever works. All I use is a desk lamp, a white piece of copy paper and my old Canon SD700IS. It works "good enough" for me! I really like the bulb in my lamp, it's very versatile. I never have to use post-processing other than to crop and resize for web.

I take all my pictures freehand. With my lighting setup, I have total flexibility in light and camera angle. I try to use those to convey how the coin looks in hand.

 

Fabulous, fotog, fenom............

 

Seriously misspelled.....

 

Close enough

 

Using light and camera angles, I can grab toning shots pretty easily too.

 

One thing im trying to figure out is how to get the tone and still be "head on" the coin.

If you crop an angled coin it looks very oval and off, but otherwise you dont get the color :/

 

You have to alter the light, flexibility with your lights is key IMO. The guys at the pro level in this forum can help you....there are several.

It's difficult for me, especially with slabbed and airtite coins, I know what you're talking about. To get around it with my simple setup I take angled shots to supplement the perpendicular shots. See how different this coin looks from overhead to angled! Since I can't seem to capture the toning well overhead, I cheat with the extra angled pics - it's fair game in my attempt to show what you can see in hand. NO post processing other than to resize. Notice how the angled light and camera affect my white balance. (That's why I love using a white background. It lets the trained eye understand what's going on better.)