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Pillar of the Community
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I took 8 pictures and used Photoshop's stacking and animation features to build it and add some cross-fades to smooth it out. In the future I'd like to use 12 or more frames. Ideally I'd have the camera and a coin mounted to some kind of turntable rather than rotating the coin by hand. Stacking the images in Photoshop doesn't work very well (see how the date jumps around). I'd also like to use a higher lighting angle to capture the color better, but it's not possible with my cameraphone/loupe setup because it casts a shadow on the coin unless the light is at a really low angle.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice! How did you retone it?
I did not retone it, I purchased it that way and fully aware that it was cleaned. More than likely, it probably spent some time in an old Wayte Raymond/Library of Coins album which are known to occasionally impart brilliant toning due to high sulfur content in the cardboard used to make the old albums. |
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I did not retone it, I purchased it that way and fully aware that it was cleaned. More than likely, it probably spent some time in an old Wayte Raymond/Library of Coins album which are known to occasionally impart brilliant toning due to high sulfur content in the cardboard used to make the old albums.
ok sorry I miss understood, but its a VERY nice merc!  |
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Here's an experiment I posted in the photography forum a little while ago... That looks really good. I cannot stop looking at it!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Cool animation Captain,
This remained me of those animated gif files I was doing for my brother when he had his toy business.
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Pillar of the Community
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A new way to post coins! Now everyone has to do it that way!  |
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A new way to post coins! Now everyone has to do it that way!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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LOL, it took me HOURS to do that one animation, and I only did one side (the other side is mostly untoned).
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Pillar of the Community
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A little beat up, but nice eye appeal (I'm always amazed at the flaws that macro photography reveals with coins that look perfectly fine to the naked eye):   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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wow that is such a nice set! I'm jealous lol |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Only the 16D and 21D in set #1 are NOT MS. Just got to get those soon.
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Pillar of the Community
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JUST CARL,
I knew you were hiding these from me. LOL!
I hope one day I can even complete just one set like yours...
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Posted 11/15/2011 12:09 pm
