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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1645349, member: 112&quot;]Question for you, when you say that do you mean that the pics are of worse quality, or that the pics make the coin look worse ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m asking that question because it brings up an important point. Usually, when a person takes pictures of one of their coins it&#039;s because they want to share those pics with others, or ask a question about that coin. And usually most people will try to post pics that show the coin in its best light - meaning it looks as good as it can. That&#039;s completely acceptable and I think everybody does the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when looking at posted pics you&#039;ll quite often read comments like - it looks better in hand, or I just can&#039;t quite capture the color or luster, or something along those lines. And yeah, we all have those problems too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for that of course is because pictures can only show you how a coin looks from 1 specific angle, the angle at which the picture was taken. But when we look at coins we hold them and tilt them and roll them under the light in order to see luster, color, or the lack thereof. Thus we are looking at the coin at many, many, different angles in order to see those things. And these angles only have to change by a degree or two to make the coin look completely different. At a given angle you can see color or luster, a scratch or a contact mark, and at a different angle you can&#039;t see them at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well pictures are exactly the same way. They only show you what you can see at that specific angle. And sometimes it&#039;s what we want to see and sometimes it&#039;s what we don&#039;t want to see. And that makes pictures a valuable tool for all of us, but more so for the owner of the coin. Because it allows us, forces us even, to see things that we probably didn&#039;t want to see at all. Maybe even things we missed when we looked at the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>And we all have to realize something, we have to realize that while pictures may not always show you a positive or a negative aspect of the coin because of the angle at which the pic was taken, pictures cannot ever show you something that is not really there on the coin. If you can see it in a picture, then it is there on the coin. And the fact that you may not really notice it when looking at the coin in hand doesn&#039;t matter - it is there.</p><p><br /></p><p>So use your pictures as a tool, especially those pictures which when you look at them you might say to yourself - that looks terrible ! Or those pictures look much worse than the others. For those are the pictures that will show you what you need to see, what you didn&#039;t or don&#039;t want to see. In other words pictures that show you the faults of a coin are more valuable to you as the owner than those pictures that show the coin in its best light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those are the pictures that will teach you, and help you learn how to see things you might miss when looking at a coin in hand. And that can be invaluable when looking at coins you want to buy in the future <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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