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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Denis Richard, post: 26752818, member: 112673&quot;]Your shots look good, and from what I can see there are only a few areas worth thinking about.</p><p><br /></p><p>First is enlargement. What resolution was the dealer’s image to start? How much are you zooming in when you compare it to yours? Almost any image looks great as a thumbnail. Once you enlarge it, that’s when the real differences start to show.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second is lighting, which is almost always the factor that makes or breaks a coin photo. The dealer’s image appears to have been lit with softer light—possibly with the diffuser placed farther from the light source. That kind of setup tends to smooth things out and avoids emphasizing surface marks. Whether that was intentional or serendipitous is hard to say, but it’s a useful approach if the goal is to keep fine surface detail from standing out too much. I’d also guess, from the brighter area in the field, that your lights were positioned closer to the coin. Do you remember roughly how far away they were—just a few inches, or closer to a few feet?</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, there’s the question of how much detail was captured in the first place. As you mentioned, if the dealer photographed the coin while holding it at arm’s length, the camera simply couldn’t record much fine detail to begin with. In that case, the image will naturally look smoother because that information was never captured in the frame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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