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After learning a little bit about what works and what doesn't as far as photography is concerned, I decided to reshoot this Greek Tetradrachm. Its one of my coins that I haven't played much with lately. It totally felt like a new coin. Feel free to make comments and suggestions... Anatolia,Pamphylia, Side c. BC 200 AR Tetradrachm 30 mm x 15.88 g obverse: Helmeted Head of Athena reverse: Victory Advancing hold wreath, Pomegranate in reverse left field. Monogram: Wreath / AR ref: CNG31-63010  |
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Very nice coin and lovely picture. You really display it's great patina very well.
Incidentally what do you think are the pros and cons between a white and a black background?
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Can I have it? Beautiful coin.
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Echizento- You could.....but....I only except payment in Koto Nihontos.
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I actually like both. I have slowly been reshooting my coins against various back ground colors and "painting" in the background. In my experience black is more forgiving when it comes to mending the edge to the background. Otherwise I like black it seems more professional, the color of the coin is appears much richer in my opinion. It makes group photos look very cool too. Group Shot of the Western Satraps to scale.  Edited by Ancientnoob
10/22/2014 8:21 pm
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Nah  I rather have the First Meris. |
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Yes I think you are right about the black. It seems to enrich the natural colours of the coin. I have used white up until now (not quite true - when I first started out I photographed against a red background, not noticing that all my coins were reflecting the redness around their edges giving a rather unpleasant effect) but now that I photograph against a neutral non reflective slate grey background and then insert the white, it would be easy for me to flip it to black using the software....I might give it a go.
Anyway...beautiful coin and photograph Ancientnoob!
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What if I told you guys that I took the picture with my phone.. |
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I would tell you that you have a better camera on your phone than I do on mine Edited by Valecrucis
10/22/2014 9:53 pm
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What if I told you guys that I took the picture with my phone.. What kind of dark magic is this?!?! |
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They seem to be very good. I have a friend who has been taking great photos of the moon using that model.
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It does late roman bronze coins too...  |
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I can't wait for the software that accurately recognises the edges of objects and inserts the block colour background automatically. That will be a great camera.
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10/22/2014 10:27 pm
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those are wonderful pictures AN. I've started "painting" my backgrounds black as well, I'm starting to get better at it. I still have trouble painting right at the coin edge by hand...but I can't get an "auto edge" function to work as well as I can with a mouse and hand with the coffee shakes.
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Oh my god that is stunning, I love that reverse.
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