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these images are great! nice job!!
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United Kingdom
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Lovely images! I've been using a desk lamp with an incandescent "daylight" (slightly blue) bulb but seeing how good these pics are I might see what I can achieve with LEDs. Blown one or two of the bulbs which is a pain...
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First three are a bit dark. The edges of the coin looks like you "blacked out" the background? Focus/clarity could be a bit better,IMHO. Overall, better than I can do. The other pics seem just a wee bit dark. I like the 1929 dime. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very nice photos and excellent lighting. I'm not sure how you removed the holder from the Morgan and Buffalo images, but it gives the edges a weird, distracting effect. A circle crop would be easier and cleaner.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Good pics. Yes, try using the circle crop function--if available in your imaging handling/processing solution.
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Pillar of the Community
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Agree with the last 2 comments, plus are the first 3 pics the right colour? Only you can say for sure, if so great.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coins may be one of the hardest things to photograph. Nice job!
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I like the last 4 images the best. you can se the edges of the coin and the holder arms. I'm not a fan of circle crops when cropped right up to the edge - leave a bit outside the coin to show as well.
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Pillar of the Community
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Looking good! Just out of curiosity, what image processing program are you using?  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Very nice!  |
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One tip I can share regarding photo brightness is that the white holder fingers, or white backgrounds on some slabs like NGC or ANACS, should be targeted at the same brightness for any group of photos to be shown together. When I look at the last 4 photos, which I agree are better than the first group, I see inconsistency in tone levels in the holder fingers. Taking the middle of the lower right finger as reference, the 4 images are: 155 120 134 134 Even the first one is a bit dark IMO, and based on the "white" finger being only at 155/255, technical analysis agrees. I like to see these fingers more like 160-180 range. I went ahead and adjusted the levels of each of the 4 images to make the lower right tab more equal. I ended up with the following numbers: 172 162 168 161 I could spend more time and get them all the same, but I just did a quick adjustment. Here are the results:     Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com |
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what image processing program are you using? I use https://www.photopea.com for my duel-photos but for just cropping or down sizing a photo I use my laptops (Windows 11) built-in photo editing program. When it comes to editing photos (e.g. brightness, exposure) I like to stay away from that as I personally don't like making a coin look better then it does in hand. I do what I can for the set-up to the photo as I like to try and make the coins in the photos look as close to what they'd be in hand without use editing them.  Here are some more unedited photos     
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07/22/2024 8:25 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You do a nice job of lighting to show luster in the slabbed coins, since that can sometimes be difficult with reflections off the plastic. Your camera automatically processes the images you take, sometimes making the result inaccurate (oversaturated, or too dark, or the wrong hue). I look at editing photos as a way to make the image look more like the coin in hand, not to make it look better. You can go a long way by modifying your setup and lighting, but there's nothing wrong with some minor photo editing when necessary to make your photo more accurate.
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Pillar of the Community
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The camera does a lot of editing before it spits out an image, no matter what settings you use. Small changes in settings make big differences to the image. So do you let the camera do the editing for you, and then make your changes to lighting to get just that right photo each time? Or do you fix the camera settings so that you get the best technical image, and then make adjustments in photo editing program to make that image look as close to the in-hand coin as possible? The latter is what most folks choose, and is what I recommend in order to get the best match to the in-hand look simultaneously with the best technical image quality. This allows you to adjust the lighting and camera settings to ensure the best dynamic range, luster presentation, focus, and composition, what I call the best "raw material" to work with, then do the fine-tuning of the image in post processing.
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