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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 25212371, member: 105571&quot;]Progress is great and you are doing that in spades.&nbsp; A couple of pointers for your consideration.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first rule of coin photography is have the coin in focus.&nbsp; I generally avoid the use of any auto-focus features especially when the coin is in a slab.&nbsp; Secondly, for coins with depth or cocked in the slab (you&#039;d be surprised how many are tilted), use a numerically larger F-stop to achieve depth of field.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second rule is lighting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here there are no hard and fast rules and experimentation is how you go about this.&nbsp; There&#039;s a typical tendency to overexpose and/or get too much glare.&nbsp; Your photos are showing too much glare and some shadowing due to the lighting being too directional.&nbsp; For reflective coins, it&#039;s often a tradeoff between image sharpness and showing the reflectivity.&nbsp; I sometimes take several photos with different lighting to show the different aspects of the coin.&nbsp; For some proof coins, I bet I&#039;ve taken 50 photos of a particular coin trying to get it right and still failed.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a separate note and this is strictly about personal taste:&nbsp; I find busy backgrounds distract from the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might find a highly recommended book of value:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Numismatic Photography&quot; by Mark Goodman.&nbsp; He deals with everything I&#039;ve mentioned and much more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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