I was looking through my collection and came upon this, really made me mad how sloppy the mint is. I'm going to send it back for a straight one. Naw that's too much work, I'm just going to SPEND it. Sorry to post again, no more "photo" threads from me. Sorry for the poor quality photograph, I didn't want to take "the time" to make it any better.
by tomorrow, you are going to feel sort of foolish for this tantrum. I would ease up, and take Gary's advice, if people don't like your posts, tell them not to read it, and move on.
Yea, I'm going to censor you allright. Just changing the title of your thread to make it more reflective of the content. Anyway, you're only allowed one "I'm taking my ball home and not playing with you guys anymore" thread.
Now that's funny........thanks LOL Good one! But seriously, it's a lot of work taking and posting photos, I wanted everyone to see them. To post in the error section and get a few hits isn't worth my time. If I had a question about an error coin, then I would post in the error section.
Errorcoins, I went over and looked at your coins in the Errors forum, and those are great pictures you took. I just bought a digital camera for my wife (Canon A85), although I haven’t yet bought a macro lens for it. I think there have already been some threads posted on photography, and GDJMSP posted one recently pointing to a another web site. I’d like to hear how you, as a professional photographer, take such great coin photos. For example, I assume you use a macro lens and some sort of camera stand. What about type of lighting and angle of lighting ? Curtains closed to keep out sunlight ? Distance from the coin you shoot from ? etc. I imagine quite a few folks here could learn from it, if you’d care to start another thread on the issue. Thanks.
Hi and thank you. I use a Nikon 5400 (discontinued) because it focus at 1/2 inch, No macro lens needed. Some cameras may need a macro lens. I use indirect sunlight and no flash. You must support the camera so there is no movement. For errors, shoot lots of different angles. Also vary the lighting angle. Basicly shoot a lot of different images and edit to only sharp well lit photos. good luck.
Okay, thanks. I have read that the Nikons would take closer shots (even without a macro lens) than most other cameras. I didn't think about focal length before I bought the camera for my wife, but I think I'll be all right with a macro lens. Mostly I made sure that I could upload the photos from the camera into our computers.
There are many, many tricks of the trade when it comes to taking coin pics. And each one will provide something different in the image. The thing to remember is that you want your pic to be as close as possible to being like looking at the coin with it in your hand. Now when I say tricks of the trade - I don't mean that you try to trick somebody into seeing or not seeing something that is there or not there on the coin. I mean there are different methods - lighting angles, camera angles, types of light, camera settings etc etc. You can even take pics through sheets of glass tilted at an angle to reflect the colors a coin may have. Play with the camera - experiment - see what does what. Soon enough you'll gain the experience to be able to show others in your pics what you see with your eyes
