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ray these photos are truly amazing. when a person such as myself read a thread and look at the images. that are posted here all I can say is wow. one thing it does thou is to help motivate new shooters. such as myself and other to strive to improve our photos. to level at least some where near where you, dave and others here produce such great images thank you for this great thread
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it has taken me a very long time to understand what you meant here. I have finally gotten it. I understand what you mean now. about calibrating the smile director. here is my first attempt. but I am getting it now. no editing just resized from raw. I also know now I need to recalibrate my smile director.  |
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i know now what would work really well here. to recalibrate the smile director. I have a couple of rolls of this stuff some where. target patch, perfect thanks ray got it
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here is another photo. tried black marker down work. I need to find my target patch. that will work.  |
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thank you for sharing the gorgeous pictures of your lovely coins! You put my pictures in the shame corner, but that's okay... the world needs more gorgeous pictures :)
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Those look good rocky! Did you put a mirror where the coin goes an snap a pic of the areas of illumination? If you do, check it out at both f22 as well as your shooting aperture (f5.6, f8, or whatever). With slabs, the light needs to stay outside the radius of the coin at shooting aperture. For raw coins, it isn't as critical.
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yes ray I did. what surprise me was the tone of the light. the tone appeared one color of light. yet when I took the coin picture. the light color was different. you are right. you really have to take your time. to calibrate the light I really learned from this ray. thank you so much for sharing. I am going to spend some time on improving my smile director.
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here is another attempt at a smile director. I made 2 jansjo smile directors. different calibration ray is right you need to use a mirror. that way you can see the difference. here is a american penny. using 2 smile directors no editing   |
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Looks good rocky!
Can you show the image of the mirror without the coin? And don't crop it square. This way we can see the reflection of the lights.
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smile director with a new quarter axial lighting. know that I understand how this works. I am going to make a smile director with a full size lamp. I will set the mirror back up to get an image of the lamps.  |
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here is a couple of photo take with a canon camera. 2 jansjo plus full lamp all with smile directors. I can see I will need a 3 jansjo lamp with a director. no editing just resizing. these are slabbed coins any thoughts appreciated   |
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Very nice, rocky. Always enjoy your work. Ham
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Are your images a final product of image stacking? Or are your images all single shots? Very nice images, impressive capture of toning and strike details.
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The Regency Store thank you. the images are single photos. rmpsrmps created this thread. to demonstrate the results produced by a smile director. I built a full size lamp smile director. but it does not work as good as the jansjo lamps do. lighting is the big issue in coin photography. I hope this helps you. if you have any question feel free to ask. there is a wealth of knowledge and experience here on this forum. we are all trying to improve coin photography.
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