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Valued Member
United States
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I'm working on my lighting setup and I can't decide if I like a white background better or black. I think I like the way the details look better on white, but the black is more dramatic. Thoughts?   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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have you tried blue or red?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The dark areas on the coin on the black background image provide less contrast.
In this pair, the light background image is preferable to my eye.
Either way, both are excellent images.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I like black. No shadows. Steve  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1374 Posts |
I pick white!
The coin with the white background is reflecting more light from its surface. I don't know if it is because the black background is absorbing light, the angle of your light source or camera, but the black photo does show slightly more shadow and an overall darker appearance from the mere difference in how the coin is reflecting.
Sorry for the run on.
Edited by Drsandman2
02/03/2011 05:29 am
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 United States
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I choose the white background.
John1 
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Valued Member
 United States
70 Posts |
Thanks for the input everyone. I was using a plastic cup with the bottom cut off as a light diffuser so I suspect the first one is a bit brighter because the light is reflecting off the white background and illuminating the cup. I'm still torn because I think the coin looks better on the first one, but I like the black background better. I suppose I could always merge the two, but that's a lot of work for casual coin photography. Now if I could just master the blurry, out of focus shots that hide all those bag marks, I too could be an ebay power seller. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I suppose I could always merge the two, but that's a lot of work for casual coin photography. Done! It only takes about 2min. using GIMP.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Here's a composite pic made from both coins. There's not a lot of difference in the two.  Steve Edited by triggersmob
02/04/2011 06:19 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Would it be possible to delete the background altogether and add a different one from another source later on? For example, create an historic picture with the coin in the foreground as a feature, and a black and white picture of an historic mining site as a background.
Has anyone have an old mining scene of the Comstock Lode?
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Moderator
United States
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Would it be possible to delete the background altogether and add a different one from another source later on? For example, create an historic picture with the coin in the foreground as a feature, and a black and white picture of an historic mining site as a background. That's a relatively easy procedure with most decent image-editing programs. You can select only the coin, as Canadian-Banknotes did in his post above, and superimpose the result on an existing background image. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks Canadian-Banknotes. I think that's the ticket.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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New Member
United States
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I like the way that the coins lighting shows up on a white background but I would just do what Canadian-Banknotes did and just cut out the coin and place it on any background color that you like.
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Valued Member
United States
380 Posts |
Black Felt works as a great background IMO... or you could always post process it out...
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Valued Member
India
265 Posts |
just use a scanner, to scan coin images.
warm wishes.
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