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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 26752800, member: 36248&quot;]Your points make perfect sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently took some photos of a coin I love, but was slightly disappointed with my own photographs.&nbsp; &nbsp; Nothing terrible, mind you, but I was surprised by the result.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shooting raw, and zoomed into each photo prior to turning them into a template, I had much better resolution than the seller photos, better focus, etc.&nbsp; &nbsp; But for some reason I liked the look of the seller photos more than my own.&nbsp; I had the technical part of the coin photography correct, but I failed at capturing the coins essence.&nbsp; Holding the coin at normal arms length, the seller photos better showed the coin as it was.&nbsp; My images exaggerate any flaws, have more contrast, and therefore the pleasing &quot;even&quot; look to the coin is lost.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; That even pleasing color and where from the seller photos is why I bought the coin instantly upon seeing it, and in my photos that was lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>Top image are my photos, bottom image is the sellers photos inside my template.</p><p><br /></p><p>Top image is the best that I got it before I gave up, and so my original shots were even more stark.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1708216[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1708217[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I 100% agree that sometimes too much resolution / sharpness actually works against you, because its not how the naked eye sees.&nbsp; &nbsp; Between my own recent experience, and your excellent writeup here, I think my next mission is to find the goldilocks zone, where sharpness and other technical aspects helps a coins image, and then stop right before its starts to hurt the bigger picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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