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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 3203251, member: 31773&quot;]Well, I&#039;ve always had a pet peeve about the &quot;in-hand look&quot;. Truthfully, the coins look exactly like my photos. But they also look exactly like Robec&#039;s, and like Physics-fan3.14&#039;s. Cameras don&#039;t lie, and knowing the coins I don&#039;t see where either Robec or Physics-fan3.14 have juiced the coins. The difference is in the way the coins are lit. I can light a coin a hundred different ways, and it will look a little different for each. But that&#039;s what the coin looks like! When I view a coin in-hand, I usually use a single light, either a LED or halogen, at a good distance above the coin. If I hold the coin such that the light reflects directly off of it, it exhibits the deep colors like I show in my shots, and Robec is showing in his. But that &quot;look&quot; doesn&#039;t photograph well, so coin photographers add more lights, diffuse them, move them to different angles, etc in order to even-out the light so you can actually see all the details. So if the in-hand look is what I view when I&#039;m using a single light high above the coin, then none of these shots looks remotely like that, and everyone should be very glad they don&#039;t![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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