Still Working The "shoot The Bright BU Cent" Thing

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timsumrall Pillar of the Community United States 1256 Posts	Posted 02/17/2011 11:23 pm I was having trouble. Washed out glare, zero depth, pseudo dark spots on high points. I was over lighting. This setup was free style, if you will, to test a lot of lighting options so the back grounds don't match. I like the potential. Captured in shadow with ISO set to 64. White Balance set to Auto. 600x600 crop from a 4000x3000 shot. No reduction or software enhancements. As taken. Yes, that is a squashed gnat on the obverse Report this Post to the Staff

SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 02/18/2011 9:27 pm Regardless of the limitations of your camera or lighting, you're well within the limits of the Gimp's ability to correct. Having your fullsize images to play with, you'll be able to do far better than my 30-second job: That was about 25% reduction in Levels, and 40% Sharpen. You could probably Sharpen 50% on the fullsize image without introducing too much noise (assuming you've reduced size as well as cropped - if this is the actual size of the coin in the pic, don't Sharpen any further). Report this Post to the Staff
timsumrall Pillar of the Community United States 1256 Posts	Posted 02/22/2011 10:22 pm I shot the same coin again with a different config and reloaded above. The fine detail in the fields is coming out. Compare the scatches under AM to Dave's save (thanks by the way. I lost my copy) The shade of brass is very close. I did resize from 820 down to 600 just so it would load fast. No sharpen after resize. No enhancements. Full size images (1/2 meg) ... http://sumrallworks.com/coins/image...WC1941PO.jpg http://sumrallworks.com/coins/image...WC1941PR.jpg Report this Post to the Staff
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Still Working The "Shoot The Bright BU Cent" Thing