If using a camera you need a flash that can be swivelled to bounce off the ceiling I've seen IS Wright Melbourne doing their ebay pictures using a scanner
Do it near a window during day time , mid day the best, try not using Flash. It should comes up good. At nite try using extra lamps with flash.
Send one of our members..."gooby" a message. He has posted some fabulous images before. Gooby says and uses this: iphone 4S and an app called Camera+. The 'stabilizer' function is good for things like this if you're not using a tripod as it uses the camera's motion sensors and only takes the picture once the camera is very still in order to get the sharpest focus. Manually select the focus point to make sure that the focus and exposure etc are set for the right area (you can also set these separately from each other in the app), since the auto setting will take into account the entire scene. Sometimes for coin imagess, moving it (the focus/exposure point) around a bit to find the best spot can make a big difference, too.
I think a black background also helps a lot. Any plain background would be better than a non-plain background, but I think black 'brings out' the silver the most.
Many thanks for your input, and sorry to be a pedant. But matt black I presume, and not gloss or satin? Cheers.
It all depend. Toning Silver - White back ground Nice clean silver should use - Darker back ground. I find using some carded Texture darker back ground make it looks exclusive, even leather or on black sofa. See my photos Dark back ground [imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/9636_shilling1.jpg][/imgz] White back ground [imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/9636_1874_8_reales.jpg][/imgz] Texture back ground [imgz=http://forums.silverstackers.com/uploads/9636_5pm.jpg][/imgz]
and if you want to add lighting, 6500k is the way to go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature I had great success with gems on cloudy days, with a white bowl. You'd have to try photographing some 2mm translucent stones to appreciate the difficulty lol. I also found that my camera would auto correct the colour so having some black and also some white in frame stops that. you can crop later.
Natural Light is always gonna be easier with Silver. Swoydaz, let us know what your using ie. SLR, iPhone etc.
I seem to remember one of out USA members posting some great photos and there being a discussion on his technique. Was it DCCPA maybe??
Some good advice in this thread: http://forums.silverstackers.com/topic-11700-coin-photography-page-2.html
1. Have perfect eyesight.. your not gonna take an excellent photo if you can't see what your subject is. If you have terrible eyesight collecting numismatics may not be for you (not talking what PM consider Numismatics!) 2. Get a photo box set up.. its gonna prevent nasty light variation ... you can build a rig from paper and chopsticks for free OR spend hundreds of thousdands depending on how keen you are to take "good photos" 3. Get a nice camera 1for1
Good point, cheers 10 oz h. I should have said I have been using and iPhone 4S with os7 and an iPad mini os7. I fluke the odd good shot with both devices but can never repeat the luck even when I replicate conditions.
