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Valued Member
 United States
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So, still trying and not quite there... The color on a lot of my silver is coming off more as a gun-metal gray than I want. The white balance on my camera has no manual setting. Only settings for different light and an auto, which I use. I rotate white and a couple different shades (light/dark) of gray construction paper to set the white balance. I'm not even sure if that's the problem I have...  Any tips on what I can do to have the images come across more realistic? |
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Valued Member
United States
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Let's see your camera setup with the lighting. Pics look out of focus to me.
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
Setup is just a point and shoot, overhead dining room lighting, a mini tripod and construction paper. As basic as basic can be.
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Valued Member
United States
441 Posts |
Camera settings? What type of light...incand, flour, etc? Is white balance setting correct to lighting? If using a mini tripod, have you tried the timer to help with focus issues? Lot's of stuff involved with getting good realistic shots. YMMV.
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
 Fluorescent lighting. I use the "One push Set" Auto WB setting for each individual coin. Any of the 3 fluorescent WB settings on the camera end up with gold/red lighting and coins. 2 second timer for each shot. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4038 Posts |
Shoot with a known white/gray background, then adjust the WB in post-processing.
Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com |
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Valued Member
United States
441 Posts |
From what I read in the manual, using the OnePushSet WB is supposed to be set with a white card under whatever lighting is being used. That should set the basic WB. Then, as Ray said, may need to do some tweaking in post. Not sure why the WL pic looks blurry unless it has something to do with the working distance or digital zoom is kicking in.
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
 Left is new. Taken with a white background and WB adjusted in GIMP.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4038 Posts |
So is that closer to the correct color?
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
Not particularly. It's a pretty standard white silver coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4038 Posts |
It looks like you did more than just WB adjustment. Send me the original un-edited and I'll see what's going on.
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
Original after PB upload:  Still at the point where I don't much know what I'm doing and I'm well past the point where trying to figure it out was fun, but I really appreciate you guys helping me out. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4038 Posts |
Well, the background is already near-perfect grey, but the coin is green. If the coin is not actually green, then the actual background color must not be true grey. What are you using for the background? Assuming the coin is blast white silver, then in order for the color to be this far off the background must be well into the blue.
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
The background is white for that picture... With these settings:  And this process: Lay down white card stock > One push Set WB > Lay coin down and center > Zoom (x2.8) > Focus > Take picture. Doing the same with a grey background leaves the same too dark background but closer results, color wise:  Gonna need my dunce hat pretty soon. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It seems your camera is not able to properly white balance to the white card stock you are using, but it did a better job with the gray fabric. It's common for "white" paper to have a lot of blue, ie to be a high color temperature. "bright" white is actually fairly blue.
Why are you calling the background "too dark"? The first image is pretty much spot-on. You should not expect a white background to be white. That is not how cameras work. Generally a white background will be pushed to middle grey, depending on how bright the highlights are within the metering areas.
I suggest you invest in a grey card to use for white balancing.
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