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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2178752, member: 19463"]The original violates what I believe to be the one cardinal rule of coin photography.  The lighting should never come from the bottom.  There are times I can justify any other direction but bottom lighting is what we call ghoul lighting when shooting people.  Light from below looks like what you see on Halloween when a kid come to your door lighted only by a flashlight shining up under his chin. I know some of you think I make this stuff up but there are things in photography we just should not do. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ghoul+lighting&newwindow=1&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0gKGVf6QBJatyAT6xqvYBw&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=598&dpr=1.5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ghoul+lighting&newwindow=1&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0gKGVf6QBJatyAT6xqvYBw&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=598&dpr=1.5" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=ghoul+lighting&newwindow=1&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0gKGVf6QBJatyAT6xqvYBw&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=598&dpr=1.5</a>I consider ghoul lighting as big a sin as shooting a coin without removing it from its holder.  The reshoot is a great improvement.  This is a coin I would try with completely non-directional lighting.  Just bounce light around the room and rotate the coin under the camera until you see the most pleasing results.[/QUOTE]