Hi again ~
Not too much traffic/input on my first photo post (below, dated 10/12/09), but I'm certainly grateful for the feedback that was provided. Just finished posting a few pix from my second photo session over in the Tokens/Exonumia forum (10/17/09), and since there were two tokens involved that evening, I thought I'd split them up put the second one here.
This Norfolk, England token issued by William Buck Jr. in 1817 appears in Withers (Appendix I) as one of two "Associated Items."
As I understand that, there are two reasons for that: first, unlike virtually every other tradesman's token of that era it is not denominated in pence; and second, it did not appear in the Davis catalog, the original bible for this series. It's been assigned an RR on the Withers' 3-R scale, which indicates that it's considered "Very Rare - Few specimens available."
Took the photos with my 4-MP Olympus Camedia D-545 Zoom. Will include below a snapshot of my studio in action. The lighting was the 15-w fluorescent tube under the cupboard, with maybe (can't remember, sorry) some auto-flash from thh camera itself.
Fortunately, the camera has a super-macro mode as well as a SHQ resolution option, so size and detail will probably never be issues for me. I'm still learnimg about white balance and recently picked up a photostand and gooseneck lamp w/Ott bulb, so things may be improving soon...I hope.
The coin is a couple of shades redder in hand, too, so I guess there are a few image-editor things I need to start working on as well. I use both Picasa and MS Office Photo Manager...have something on a disk I haven't even opened yet...Photoshop Elements, I believe. Started my retirement about six weeks ago (whew!), so now I can begin ratcheting up the steepness of my learning curve.
The other token from this session came out even more orange...although not disgustingly so, I'd like to think. If you'd like to see that one too, it's in my post dated today (10/17/09) on the Token/Exonumia thread. Let me know if
you think it's disgusting...I can take it!
Would appreciate any feedback and/or advice you might have on these pix.
Best to all, and thanks!
Tom
Posted 10/18/2009 8:43 pm
