Quote Originally Posted by ray_parkhurst View Post
Jacob...I haven't visited the photo sub-forum for a while so missed your post. Both photos are high enough magnification for showing a variety, but both are a bit blurry, maybe due to focus but more likely due to lens resolution limitations. For lighting, to show variety details well, you need to direct the light usually from one direction to emphasize the highlight and shadow details of the variety. Often this means bringing the light to a relatively low angle vs the coin surface in order to create shadows of low relief details. I'm not seeing much in the way of an RPM in either of these but they may show better with more directional lighting...Ray
Thanks for the reply Ray. My only issue on photos is stand isn't at a straight down angle. Stand was repaired but slightly off a hair instead of 90 degrees it's more like 80 degrees. That's why photos don't show clear on a whole coin but certain sections. It's a challenge but going to work on base section to make angle match the slight angle of stand approach. I'll figure it out but in meantime just practicing on best approach I can do at the moment. But yes need to work on lighting too. Thanks.