A "trial Run" With A Morgan Dollar

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WheatBack Pillar of the Community United States 2850 Posts	Posted 08/22/2017 11:12 pm Below are my settings and setup. I have a custom white balance that I adjust accordingly. I shoot on a white piece of copy paper as my background. Nothing fancy with this setup. One of the lights was free and the other two were about $5 each at Walmart. I am using a Canon EOS T6 using a macro lens with a macro wide angle conversion lens attachment. I have three gooseneck lamps surrounding the camera at the base of the camera lens. Two of the lamps are LED and the other uses a standard CFL bulb. The base of the lens is about 7" from the table's surface directly over the coin I am shooting. I then do remote shooting using Canon's EOS Utility so I can make live adjustments by viewing the shot from my computer. Report this Post to the Staff
Ham1947 Pillar of the Community United States 1298 Posts	Posted 08/23/2017 06:04 am WheatBack, Thanks for the information and photo of your setup. Ham Report this Post to the Staff
andywoj00 Valued Member United States 441 Posts	Posted 08/23/2017 10:56 am Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff
Liquidsilver7 Valued Member United States 142 Posts	Posted 10/12/2017 10:07 pm Nice setup!! Report this Post to the Staff
BadDog Pillar of the Community United States 1375 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 6:04 pm Quote: ... with a black outer glow to sorta bring it all together. Wheatback, Is the outer glow effect something that is easily done in Photoshop? A blur or something similar? or are you making it by layering? Since I use GIMP and not PS, I'm trying to figure out (so far unsuccessfully) how to create this effect in GIMP. Any GIMP users out there know how to do this? Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff
Nickos New Member Greece 45 Posts	Posted 10/14/2017 07:18 am For Photoshop go to: Layer ---> Layer Style ----> Outer Glow There you can make your experiments on how your glow can be. Report this Post to the Staff
nss-52 Moderator United States 54283 Posts	Posted 10/14/2017 07:42 am Quote: I'm trying to figure out (so far unsuccessfully) how to create this effect in GIMP. I googled - outer glow gimp, and got results. Report this Post to the Staff
BadDog Pillar of the Community United States 1375 Posts	Posted 10/14/2017 10:16 am Quote: I googled - outer glow gimp, and got results. Thanks nss-52! I wasn't searching for the right key words, and this did it for me. If anyone else is interested, you have to create a alien glow layer (Filters -> Alpha to Logo -> Alien Glow). I found that a glow size of around 100 pixels seems to work pretty well. Looks like the process is a bit more complicated (you have to create and arrange some layers) to create this effect in GIMP, but it can be done and GIMP is free Report this Post to the Staff
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