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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Sounds to me like he has a nice black board with a drywall screw screwed into it so it is perpendicular to the surface of the board. Then on top of the head of the screw he has a small felt covered pad on which he sits the coins. Very smart actually because the AF software in the camera will focus on the coin and drop the black board out of the photo altogether.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
756 Posts |
LOL, how pathetic. I must need to see it in person to figure this one out.
Piece of dry way.
Where is this screw, in the center to hold down the material?
Then uses the head of the screw to support the coin in the picture?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
830 Posts |
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Originally posted by Joeyuk
I understand if you cut the wire out of the top of small lampshade you can use it to diffuse the light and this cuts down on reflections. Place the lampshade over the coin. Illuminate it from the sides. Shoot thru the top.
This works pretty well. Just make sure you're not using a colored lampshade ;) |
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Forum Dad
 United States
24171 Posts |
Voila.....  The green felt pad on top of the screw is one of those things you buy at the furniture store for the legs of your dining room table so they don't scratch your hardwood floors. They're extremely soft and self stick. About $2 for a card of 12. That's how you get the background to fall off like this...  |
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Moderator
United States
23522 Posts |
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Originally posted by bobby131313
Voila.....
The green felt pad on top of the screw is one of those things you buy at the furniture store for the legs of your dining room table so they don't scratch your hardwood floors. They're extremely soft and self stick. About $2 for a card of 12.
That's how you get the background to fall off like this...
If you're worried about balance, use one of those tripods from a pizza delivery - the ones that hold up the center of the pizza box - with the felt on it. |
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Forum Dad
United States
24171 Posts |
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If you're worried about balance, use one of those tripods from a pizza delivery - the ones that hold up the center of the pizza box - with the felt on it.
True, but they will ony work with larger coins like halves and dollars because they're larger than the top of those things. |
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Moderator
United States
23522 Posts |
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Originally posted by bobby131313
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If you're worried about balance, use one of those tripods from a pizza delivery - the ones that hold up the center of the pizza box - with the felt on it.
True, but they will ony work with larger coins like halves and dollars because they're larger than the top of those things.
I wouldn't know about coins smaller than a Morgan.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
756 Posts |
Ah, So I do in fact rest the coin on the screw.
Ok, think I've got it.
However, woke up today to find out that one of my cats ate my usb connector cable, so I can't upload photos. Need to figure out how to replace it and in bulk. They will do it again.
Also, got my tri-pod in the mail. So the ate cord couldn't have come at a worse time.
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New Member
United States
4 Posts |
Is the "macro" setting a must? I'm not sure I have one.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
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Originally posted by LikeMike
Is the "macro" setting a must? I'm not sure I have one.
Its possible to get fair pictures without a macro if your camera has a good optical zoom,, My success was very limited with my old camera which did not have a macro setting,, what type camera do you have ? maybe we can find out if your camera has a macro or not. Rick |
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Valued Member
United States
397 Posts |
Low Light, macro Mode, and a STILL camera(tripod). I also like blue backgrounds for gold, and black for silver.  MM  |
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Valued Member
United States
397 Posts |
One other thing is the power of a good photo editor to make a bad photo look good. Below, 1 is a photo I had on the hard disk. Not too attractive.... BUT, with a little editing magic....you get photo 2 and 3 MM  1:  2:  3:  Edited by morganman
11/19/2006 10:42 pm
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Member
United States
3242 Posts |
I use a box with felt to set the coin a higher than my light. Image Insert: |
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Valued Member
United States
402 Posts |
I like the half of a milk jug approach  |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
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Originally posted by 50cents
I like the half of a milk jug approach
Very nice pic |
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