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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3792439, member: 56859"]Personally, I don't like coin images shot in <i>full </i>sun (across the board-- not just your photos). The lighting is harsh, you have no little control over lighting direction, and the shots are always overly contrasted.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lighting on the coin with the gray background is slightly better than the one with the gray background. It looks less harsh although the direction of lighting wasn't optimal for showing details on the coin. The black background images have better details on the coin but at the expense of losing the coin edges and having too much contrast.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd somewhat prefer the gray image if the background was photoshopped black, but that is a time-consuming hassle.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could save a lot of headaches and whims of nature by using a daylight bulb on a gooseneck lamp or other position-adjustable lamp. Buy some super matte black paint and you can get your background uniformly black without any (or much) digital retouching, if black backgrounds are your preference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3792439, member: 56859"]Personally, I don't like coin images shot in [I]full [/I]sun (across the board-- not just your photos). The lighting is harsh, you have no little control over lighting direction, and the shots are always overly contrasted. The lighting on the coin with the gray background is slightly better than the one with the gray background. It looks less harsh although the direction of lighting wasn't optimal for showing details on the coin. The black background images have better details on the coin but at the expense of losing the coin edges and having too much contrast. I'd somewhat prefer the gray image if the background was photoshopped black, but that is a time-consuming hassle. You could save a lot of headaches and whims of nature by using a daylight bulb on a gooseneck lamp or other position-adjustable lamp. Buy some super matte black paint and you can get your background uniformly black without any (or much) digital retouching, if black backgrounds are your preference.[/QUOTE]
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