Your best coin photograph..

I do appreciate you pointing it out. The bull and I are both pretty proud fellas. And frankly, with the prices and Ithyphallics achieved of phallus on coins I'm shocked I got this bent beauty (much like myself) for such a reasonable price and of course that nobodies made a bigger deal about, "The best of the Bull"

 

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I agree 100%. This is actually one of the ways I decide if I keep a coin or not. Sometimes coins that might look good to the naked eye photograph horribly.

 

This is probably one of the photo's I'm most happy with:

The photo captures the briljant toning, and apart from cropping, no post-editing was necessary (i.e. I didn't play with contrast, brightening, or other parameters). The black background was achieved by axial photograph in a box with black velt.

I photographed this coin yesterday:

... but it fails to capture the whole 'feeling' of the coin - which is very impressive in hand.

 

I'm still trying to get a hang of my new camera, but I'm pretty pleased with how these two turned out. Supermodels are overrated.

 

'Best' is never a certain thing but there are photos that I like better than others even if the coin is not the sort of thing that would dazzle the auction crowd. All of these are tipsy so none would be suitable for passport/drivers license use but that is OK since none of these coins are planning any travels while I am alive.

Aegina stater


Athens new style tetradrachm fourree


Rhodes AE36

 

Hi everyone!

I'm a little late to this party, but...

After years struggling to photograph coins
particularly the uncleaned ones,
the other day before junking a small old printer
I tried the flatbed scanner (which I had never used)
and came up with better images of my crusty ancients
than any photo I can remember taking of one.
I will have to figure out how to remove the blue from the background




I have not begun to tidy this coin but I suspect it may be from Jerusalem mint, c. 27 B.C - Herod the Great.

 

Those look like pretty good images, for a scanner. I think I have heard, of other persons using this method, with success. What is the approximate diameter of the coin? How many dpi did you use?
A couple of months ago, I tried to use my scanner, to scan 300 dpi images, of one of my ancient coins, a 15 diameter Arcadius bronze coin. The images looked terrible. I wish I still had those images, for the purpose of this post, but I wasn't able to find them.

 

Hi @sand - measured diagonally, it is 17mm x 16mm
and it weighs 2.0 grams

 

Hello @LaCointessa. I was editing my above post # 47, when you replied.
Do you remember, what dpi you used, for the scans?

 

No problem, my pleasure,
This is an Epson NX420
using 'office' settings as opposed to 'home' or 'professional'
photo
dpi 600
color
no lightening or sharpening selected
but i might do that next time since i am still experimenting with settings

 

You might check out this free sight:

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Thank you going to look at it right now!
(nice to see you, btw)

 

Yes! @gsimonel This is very nice, indeed. I will be joining that. This is how the obverse (what I think is the obverse) came out:



Was so excited that me forgotted to say THANK YOU!!! :-D

 

Yes, it's been a while, hasn't it? I believe we were both "bottom feeders" on the old Yahoo "Uncleaned Coins" discussion group. Seems like ages ago.

 

I’m a simple man. iPhone SE, desk lamp, brightness adjustment and vignette.

 

I meant that I was not in CT chat for a while (some months). Does Yahoo have coin groups? I did not know that. I'm 99.99% sure (allowing the teeny tiniest bit of room for the possibility of dementia ) that I have never been a member of a yahoo group of any sort. If you see a Cointessa anywhere else besides CT, please take a screen shot and let me know and I will change my user name.

 

Interesting thread! How I take photos is a bit strange, but I'll try to explain it

My strategy for taking photos is using my phone. It has a decent camera, but it's not that great (OnePlus 7 Pro).

I balance the coin on the end of my finger (in natural light)


I then email it to my laptop, open PowerPoint, and change the slide size to maximum (to keep quality). I then remove the background of the photo using PowerPoint's tool, and combine the photos into one picture. I think it looks decent, although it would be nice to have higher resolution

 

Best? Possibly my shot of commemorative gold. Looks in hand the same as what I've photog'ed...........



And to add a bit of modern silver.......





Dear me........hope not to incur the wrath of the 'Darkside'.

 

One of my favorites which I think captures the toning and details of this denarius well


And for a favorite bronze photo, a coin that is not the prettiest but quite nice for this type. It took several tries for me to get a photo that I liked for this "LPDAP" semis - the surfaces of this coin made it really tough to photograph and get the lighting right, but I am quite happy with how this one turned out, using artificial light as opposed to natural light that I use on most photographs.

 

This is the story of my life but the worst part is when you take a photo that you think is good but later return to it (perhaps because you got a better camera?) and can not take as good a photo as you did back in the old days. The coins were cooperative then and I mess up more recently trying too hard.

from 2000 with a Nikon 990

from 2003 with a Minolta point and shoot:


2004 with my first DSLR before I got a macro lens:


last year with inset of old photo: