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OK, I am talking about photographing coins inside, Guv, the sun doesn't always shine and I know how great the coins look under sunlight, but I have been trying to come up with a standardized way of photographing all my 1700 to early 1800 era coins.<p> The first photo shows how I have been doing it for the past 6 months. That is simply shooting in Macro from 4 inches with 3 Lights shining from different angles and using a BLUE background. Blue background gives ALL coppers a more copper color but not necessarily the true color.
<img align=center vspace=10 hspace=10 src="http://www.findmall.com/photo/don_in_sj/10mar1824obv.jpg"></img>
The second photo has the coin mounted on a peg above a white sheet and using Macro mode but this time only 2 inches instead of 4 inches away. The shot is giving a much truer color of the coin. I did not pick out a great coin to try this with so take that into consideration on your judgement.<p>><img align=center vspace=10 hspace=10 src="http://www.findmall.com/photo/don_in_sj/1827obvtest.jpg"></img>
Neither photo is retouched, only resized.
Camera is a Nikon 775 Coolpix
Don
 
taking a picture of one on a mirror.
Nice detail on your pix.
 
do different things based on the colors in the image. Just stay away from red backgrounds
 
I will experiment with the one coin and different background colors and show how the color of the coin changes. I do believe that the coins look better with that floating appearance rather than shooting them on a flat surface. Using the peg does present a problem with a shadow from it, for some reason no shadow showed on this photo, but I do know when I tried this before I had a shadow of the peg, maybe using the third light diminished that shadow. Don
 
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