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Pillar of the Community
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Picked-up a dedicated macro lens for my Rebel XT. Also had a gorgeous 1 Real come-in today, which I practiced on. I am getting a hang of it, I think. What do you guys think? Dave - looking at the pictures, feels like a like "too much detail". What do you think?    Here's an image without any post-processing, except for cropping it out:  ~Roman |
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Pillar of the Community
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Drop dead gorgeous. Beautiful piece with psychedelic toning.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks, t360! Shooting through angled glass might bring-out the color, but here I think I like this set-up better. Using overhead light, shooting at a slight angle to the surface: Better? Worse?    ~Roman Edited by TwoKopeiki
07/25/2007 10:36 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Excellent photos! I would agree that the second set shows off the coin better, though you do lose a bit of color.
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The first set has the appearance of having had the contrast tweaked too hard. Part of the problem with axial lighting is it kinda limits you to one light and one angle - although you get the color, you lose the even distribution of light that a multi-bulb setup lends. Are you ensuring that no light shines directly from the bulb onto the coin, i.e., 100% of the lighting is thru the glass?
The second set is just fantastic.
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Pillar of the Community
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Dave, to answer your question - there was background lighting going on, as well. Plus, thinking back to the set-up, I think I might've had portion of the light hitting the lens.
The first set of shots is all messed-up. I've made quite a few mistakes in the set-up, which I'll try to remedy in the next few days. I was just over-excited about the lens and wasn't thinking about anything else :)
~Roman
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Pillar of the Community
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Dave, I tried angled glass again. I've been able to isolate the light into a single source, which looks to have improved the image quality. What do you think?    ~Roman |
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I think your recent ones looks the best from the previous ones.
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wow what great photos.... ive GOT to get a better camera and lense!
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Pillar of the Community
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Those last pics look just about perfect. Congratulations!
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Valued Member
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wow theses pictures show so much detail, I'm amazed
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks, everyone :) I'm finally getting a hang of this lens. Now all I have to do is find more coins to photograph :)
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Pillar of the Community
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Awesome Roman. Better watch out Dave, it seems like folks are gunning for your crown here!
Roman, what are your settings for the last batch?
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Pillar of the Community
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tights24, thanks for the compliment! I have my camera set to ISO100 with f/11 aperture setting. Not sure of the shutter speed, I'll write it down next time I shoot. Here's my last picture. My all-time favorite Mexican design with cool reverse colors, except someone scratched a "V" above Nike's head :(    |
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I've been telling people that, with the right equipment, coin photography is 80% equipment and 20% photographer, instead of the other way around. What do you think, now, Roman?  I'm gonna have to have me one of those 2 Pesos. It's my favorite year, too. |
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Dave, I agree. I'm just getting into other aspects of digital photography, but even doing point-and-shoot stuff using a DSLR - the difference is staggering...
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Posted 07/25/2007 10:02 pm
