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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have gotten compliments on how a wood backround brings out the color and details of silver coins. What do you think and what shade of wood looks best? Samples:    |
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Pillar of the Community
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I suppose its a matter of taste: I don't like any background except Photoshop black or white.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4227 Posts |
 And, if there is a background I prefer solid colours. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4038 Posts |
I like a nice golden oak. Most ebay items (other than coins) that I sell are pictured with an oak background and the pictures come out very nice, and the items seem to sell well. Not sure if I'd picture coins that way but why not? |
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Australia
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Old-school coin photographers I've talked to in my coin club all say that blue is the best background for silver. I'm not sure if or how this translates universally into the modern digital photography age, but I've had some success with blue backgrounds myself.
Of course, two of the coins in your demo pics aren't actually silver. Cupronickel might give a different response.
Personally, I find wood distracting, especially if it's irregularly patterned and/or glossy.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
919 Posts |
Wood takes away from the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36746 Posts |
Blue or black background seems to work best on silver for me.
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Moderator
United States
23522 Posts |
I've always preferred monochromatic backgrounds for color accuracy reasons, although I don't think a nice wood background would present any problems to the camera's sensor like red might, for instance.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4038 Posts |
I prefer 128,128,128 for a background on copper, but silver needs a darker background to give proper contrast, perhaps 64,64,64 or even 32,32,32. This puts a narrow background spike in the histogram. Long ago I made up a "random" pixel pattern of grayscale levels that averaged out to 128,128,128, and I really liked it for copper. I need to dig that one up. It sort of has the same effect as the PCGS background on True View images except it has much finer granularity.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
627 Posts |
I use (26, 26, 26) for composite obverse/reverse images and have for almost 2 years. Allows a little drop shadow to make the coin pop a bit.  |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
175 Posts |
is that (262626) a background card you photo them against or a fill in post editing
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Moderator
United States
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is that (262626) a background card you photo them against or a fill in post editing
It's a postprocessing thing; the group of three numbers describing each value of an RGB color. When each of the three numbers is identical, the "color" indicated is a strict monotone, with lower numbers being close to pure black and higher numbers closer to pure white (max 255,255,255). So brg5658 created that background in post. You can see that it's not_quite completely black - just a little bit grey - and what's harder to see is the pure-black drop shadow he added. That all might be a little more visible on a monitor less-bright than mine, which is capable of permanent eye damage at full brightness and currently has the Brightness setting at 10%. |
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