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Pastel Toned Morgan With Lighting & Contrast Changes

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1. shot at f4 with low angle lighting with contrast adjustment
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2.shot at f4 low angle lighting no contrast adjustment
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3.Shot at f8 low angle lighting
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4. Shot f8 low angle lighting w/ contrast adjust
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5. F5.6 LOW ANGLE LIGHTING CONTRAST ADJUST
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6.F5.6 LOW ANGLE LIGHTING
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7. F8 HIGH ANGLE LIGHTING
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8.F8 HI ANGLE LIGHTING W/ CONTRAST ADJUST
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Trying to find the best image for a very difficult coin to photograph & get the natural look of this coin.
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I like the low-angle work. Have a Search for axial lighting here in the forum; it's actually the exact opposite of low-angle (truly vertical lighting once it's all said and done) but works very well with toners.

And quit playing with aperture!

Seriously, for full-face images here, aperture doesn't matter much but when you view stuff at 100% you'll see where you're either losing depth of field at bigger apertures, or getting diffraction at smaller apertures. The aperture setting is not changing what you're getting with color. That's all in the lighting, and a couple of degrees of angle makes all the difference.
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Thanks Dave. The f8 low angle lighting seems to be truest to nature. How does the sharpness/focus loo; tough to tell with my ginormous monitor.
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That is a real beauty you got there.
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How does the sharpness/focus loo; tough to tell with my ginormous monitor.


Sharpness looks fine, but it always will with the quality of the equipment you're using when you reduce the full image size to something postable here. The basic premise of what we teach about photography here is not so much about simple full-face imaging - you can do that with an iPhone, as Darth so capably proves - but the additional levels of sharp magnification available with the equipment. It's those details, the ability to leverage a big dSLR sensor and capable lens to achieve magnifications not possible with lesser equipment, where the advantage lies.

I always do my focusing at 100% in Live View. This means - even on my 27", 2560x1440 monitor - all I'm looking at to focus is an area about the size of the date on a Morgan.
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Thsnks Darth.
Dave how do I tell if my focusing is at 100% in live view and/or adjust it if needed?
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Dave figured out the 100% focus in live view.
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