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<p>[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4611257, member: 112673"]The coin below was part of the same lot of coins as the image I posted at the beginning of this thread. I shot about 40 of these cartwheels at the same time, with the same light.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142031[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this a pretty coin? No. Does my photography work make it look beautiful? No. Zoom in on it. Does it allow you to see all the crap stuck to it much clearer and faster than a few millimeters at a time with a loupe? Yes, because this is how the coin really looks when an expert photographer, by putting light at various directions all at once, and getting the reflections just right, generates a coin image that makes your viewing of it so much better, easier and faster than you can see in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's another one, same batch.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142036[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Zoom in on it. That's a pretty beat up coin, and you can see every bit of it, at once, clearly and easily. Looking at this image online, would anyone feel these coins were being misrepresented?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Denis Richard, post: 4611257, member: 112673"]The coin below was part of the same lot of coins as the image I posted at the beginning of this thread. I shot about 40 of these cartwheels at the same time, with the same light. [ATTACH=full]1142031[/ATTACH] Is this a pretty coin? No. Does my photography work make it look beautiful? No. Zoom in on it. Does it allow you to see all the crap stuck to it much clearer and faster than a few millimeters at a time with a loupe? Yes, because this is how the coin really looks when an expert photographer, by putting light at various directions all at once, and getting the reflections just right, generates a coin image that makes your viewing of it so much better, easier and faster than you can see in hand. Here's another one, same batch. [ATTACH=full]1142036[/ATTACH] Zoom in on it. That's a pretty beat up coin, and you can see every bit of it, at once, clearly and easily. Looking at this image online, would anyone feel these coins were being misrepresented?[/QUOTE]
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