Which is the best photograph

#6 has the most beautiful lighting.

 

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--taking a few dozen photos of which I've whittled down --

That's the secret to taking great pictures. Take lots and through away all the bad ones!
::smiles his jolly smile::

 

Photo Number 2.....:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

Are you sure?

 

Aw heck, all dem guys just want to be on Lehighs' side.........

 

Really ?

 

Truly......

 

Paul has groupies? I once put them all in my ignore box in an argument.

 

You should declare a winner

 

[h=3]This poll will close on 07-12-2012 at 04:18 PM[/h]

• Pict I
  
  5 20.83%
  
  • bradarv90
  • green18
  • Lincoln Cents
  • softmentor
  • willhurst01
• Pict 2
  
  11 45.83%
  
  • bzb
  • cremebrule
  • jensenbay
  • Kirkuleez
  • Lehigh96
  • lucyray
  • mark_h
  • pumpkinpie
  • Stewart
  • swish513
  • thecointrader
• Pict 3
  
  1 4.17%
  
  • ldhair
• Pict 4
  
  2 8.33%
  
  • Fall Guy
  • McBlzr
• Pict 5
  
  1 4.17%
  
  • mrbrklyn
• Pict 6
  
  4 16.67%
  
  • areich
  • clorox
  • Morgandude11
  • vdbpenny1995

 

Your the only one that picked 5.

 

#2 for me

 

Nice - not my picture. Looks like Route 17 in New Jersey

 

I thought it was Vegas

 

I like photo #1 and 2 (I chose 1 for it's better contrast), but I think that you should try and get the mirrors to come out black as to best show the proof surfaces.

Keep trying.

 

How do you do that without making it very dark and winding up with a very high ISO on the automatic camera and a wide aperture.

 

Expose for the frosted areas, and be sure the reflection off the shiny areas is black. You will likely need to introduce indirect lighting to the coin (lampshade method).

If your coin has as deep of mirrors as I suspect it does, you should get something like this:



I used two pieces of paper, stapled together on their long side to make a tube 11" tall. Place the coin in the bottom of the tube, your camera at the top, and several lights (I can't recall if I used 3 or 4) to light the tube up from the outside. The rest of the room was dark, and it required playing around a bit to get it right. The result is above, which I thought came out pretty cool, and what I was describing in my post above.

Have fun...Mike

 

uh huh, I don't usually photograph 11 inces away, more like 2.5 inches away.