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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 4743317, member: 29751&quot;]How the hell did you come to that conclusion?</p><p><br /></p><p>I said the images were <b>AXIALLY LIT</b> - that&#039;s a method of coin photography.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t say they aren&#039;t trustworthy - I said they are misleading.&nbsp; <i><b>That means </b></i>- <b><i><span style="color: #00b300">you need to have extra information about the photos to understand what you are looking at.</span></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what your coin photography experience is, but I have plenty - and those images are simply glamour shots.&nbsp; The photographer can be a professional, but that doesn&#039;t mean that he/she didn&#039;t use the absolute optimal method possible to show the colors.&nbsp; If you got that coin in hand and looked at it under regular lighting conditions, you would <i>not </i>see that kind of toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get that the <i><b>Northern Lights</b></i> collection was specifically sold to highlight colors.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if this was one of the Legend shows in LV or what, but when the goal of a <b><i><u>marketer</u> </i></b>is to emphasize colors, there are misleading ways to do that.&nbsp; The interpretation of coin photos takes experience and patience.&nbsp; With lots of experimenting with photography, you can easily pick out what kinds of method was used - but if you don&#039;t understand lighting, angles of lighting, etc. you are going to be fooled to think a coin will look like that in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of it another way - if the images of that Franklin Half were not cropped to just the coin, and included the full slab - you would know immediately that the lighting was done in a special way to bring out the colors.&nbsp; The slab would be very washed out, gray, and low contrast.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS does this <i>optimal artistic lighting </i>with their TrueView images all the time.&nbsp; They have a lighting setup that is absolutely not like anything that a coin would normally be viewed under.&nbsp; For some coins, the TrueViews look realistic.&nbsp; For others, you are getting an <i>artistically interpreted </i>view of the coin - not a view that would equate to what the coin looks like in hand.&nbsp; Some dealers like John Agre at CRO recognize this - John doesn&#039;t use PCGS TrueView images for selling coins (even though they are often available for coins he sells) because the PCGS images very often over-exaggerate colors.&nbsp; John has Mark Goodman photograph his stock for that very reason - Mark Goodman photographs coins so that they appear in photographs close to what they would look like from <i>most viewing angles </i>in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>In summary, my point was that post-processing coin photos in software isn&#039;t the only way to create misleading coin photos.&nbsp; The lighting also plays a very large part.&nbsp; &quot;<u>Juicing</u>&quot; is generally accepted as a term for post-processing of images using software, and increasing the saturation or color profiles - I repeat, I never said the pictures were juiced.&nbsp; Others did, but I did not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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