Learning How To Take Good Photos. What Do You Think?

Good evening everyone,

I'm a fairly new member of the forum and have been trying to figure out the best way to photograph and document a coin collection I inherited from my father.

After some constructive feedback from sharing a few coin images to the grading discussion, I decided I'd try and build a photo box to let me do this more properly, but I'd appreciate some honest feedback from the group on whether this is close to the mark.

I stick-built the box and painted it black, then placed a LED light right either off the side or through the top (filtered through two sheets of paper). There's also a hole for the camera/phone to snap the shot. (I actually routered three heights to the box and can raise or lower the camera for close-ups if I want).

Attached are four photos with the light from the side and the top, as well as a picture of what the box looks like. I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether any of these look like they're worthwhile so I can start documenting the rest of the collection.

Thanks in advance.



PS. The coin I used was in a case which I opted to leave "as is" for the moment but I might end up opening these up to take proper pictures at some point.