Silver Coins Appearing Gold

Your head must be getting sore! Yep your right just adjust the white balance using the lighting( turned on of course) you will take the photograph with..its as simple as that! The 18%grey card helps but even that isn't necessary. If the lighting is not bright enough... then make the exposure longer! ( as long as you have a stable set up)


Its only when you start to look at axial lighting and other techniques that you might want to up the lighting but even then its not completely necessary.
Rule 1: know your camera!!
Rule two.... set it to "M" ( thats for "manual" not "macro"). The only exception to this rule is when you use aperture priority( but that's cheating!!)

If your using auto or the macro setting you are always going to have niggling little problems.

Edit learnign to take photographs manually with digital cameras is a breeze!! You get instant feedback on what you've done..you can delete your mistakes. Digital cameras make it easy to learn. Can you imagine the learning curve if you had to wait a week or 2 weeks to get the prints back to see what you had done right or wrong. The funny thing is I believe these days people ( in general not specifically) are terrified of playing around with their cameras..... as a result... its auto all the way!! ( or of course the macro setting)