Need Advice-Starting Remote Shooting Again

Before I get too far taking a bunch of photos, I would like some feedback on this image. I used the "eye dropper" to get better white balance. Plus did some post processing in DPP. Also, I can get a good deal on a Tamron 90mm macro. Do you think I can get better results with it?

I agree with rocky, this is a nice result. I might make the image a bit lighter as it is a bit dark on my monitor, but otherwise you're doing great. The Tamron will almost certainly not give you a better image.

Ham...adding more light won't change things. Your camera will just compensate by reducing exposure time. Just a tiny bit of help in DPP does the trick. Do just a touch of tone curve assist (hit left tone curve assist button) or do it manually by stretching the line on the histogram to increase the brightness of the mid-tones. The image will look like this:



Not much different from what you showed but enough to make the overall image a bit brighter without compromising the highlights. I also took liberty of a bit of sharpening since the original appeared to benefit from it without looking over-sharpened.

Here is the reverse of the 1878CC. The original (before uploading) looks sharper.

here is what I am doing works well on silver dollars. I just remove one of the sections. center the macro tube over my dollar. then snap the picture for some reason it cuts the glare works for me try it if you get a chance. for pennies. I stand the tube over a pill bottle. set the penny on it and then take my picture. here what it looks like

yes ham on ebay they are really cheap. check them out. also ham ray might have a couple of sets. that he might sell that way you would not have to wait a month. I buy mind from China. make sure they are coated ones most are. they have a nice affect on coin. plus I am going to try a little experiment. if it works you will want to have some of these tubes. I think you will like what they can do. I will show you later the results. have a great one

If you put a coin at the bottom of a tube, it limits the light that can come in from the side at too low an angle. You can do the same thing for slabs, but of course the tube doesn't need to be an extension tube. Any tube will do, but the advantage the extensions have is they are black inside. If you try using a different kind of tube (paper towel or toilet paper roll, for instance) you need to flock the inside so that light does not re-reflect off the surfaces and cause more problems than the tube solves. So a black-flocked toilet paper tube, on top of the slab, does a similar thing to what rocky is showing. This is one way you can make a "light tent" work for you, since the biggest problems with those is having too diffuse a light coming from too low an angle.

ham cut the tube 1 inch to 1 inch and a quarter try that