First Coin Pics With My Canon T5i

Thank you all for taking the time to respond.

All the suggestions are great.




I was thinking I would learn some of the setting on the
camera, before I tried learning the live tether setup.
But maybe I should just go right to the tether.

I knew I could color correct with software, but thought
I should just show what I was getting without that,
to get better suggestions on what I might be doing wrong.

I am not sure what I should be doing with the White Balance (WB).
I read that the camera is set on Auto WB, but that I can
change that setting. As posted .. I guess live tether would
be the best way to get the correct setting. I will try some
more shots today, with some adjustments.

I did have the coins sitting on gray paper. I thought gray
was they correct background. Should I be using white?

The lights were at 10 and 2 O'clock position, just the bare
lights.

I bought a white card set on Amazon for $6.. It's a white ,black, and 18% grey card. But a white piece of paper will work. I use the black card as my background on raw coins.
Diffusion on the lights help avoid bright "blown out" spots. I use a ping pong ball with a hole on the jansco lights. Ray has a "smile director" system to get light just where you want it. I bumped that thread a day or 2 ago.

I switched to a white paper background.

Before putting the coin under the lens.

I followed the instructions for a custom WB.
It would not let me set it in AUTO had to switch to
aperture priority mode.

With the coin in place I made setting
2.8
ISO 400
camera selected 1/400s



I am not sure what better way I could set WB.
There are some pre set options.

Here is same photo with Picasa3 auto color

hello gr58 here is a very difficult coin to shoot. its the 2002 queens jubilee it is almost mirror like. I used a piece of charcoal art paper and a piece of abs pipe standing behind the coin. 2 janjso lamps the camera will pull the black colour over the coin. I don't us photo editing all I do is shrink them until they fit here. I do make changes know with the camera when its tethered very easy. I did not at first but I have learned you can not break the camera. that was my fear. take a look at this

EOS rebel XS, older model than yours

Much Better!

If you have the setting, try switching to the Tungsten setting for you WB. I know it is a good starting point using the Jansco's.

Assuming your background is white/grey, the white balance is perfect. I checked the RGB in a few areas and it was off by <2%, with most areas spot on. The lower right corner in particular is exact on every point I checked. I assume this means you used it for doing the WB, correct?

That means the white computer paper and the coin background are the same color.