need some advice. want to stay true to coin

[jmangham]

These are images of two different coins. Both 1960D FS101/501. Coin 1 is full red/BU. Coin 2 is still red/BU it just does not have that full red luster like the first one. I took one obverse image of each with the exact same lighting, exact same everything. Coin 1 shows nice luster. Coin 2 looks almost brown. I wanted to see what would happen so I changed the saturation the same amount on both. To me with the change they both look closer to the actual color of the coins. These are my results. I have a few questions. First, are the original images good enough as is to represent the coins? Second, would I be misrepresenting the coins by the change I made with the saturation? Thanks guys!

Coin 1 raw
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Coin 1 saturation adjust
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Coin 2 raw
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Coin 2 saturation adjust
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[jmangham]

Here are two cell phone images of the same coins side by side to show the similar luster and color. #1 on the left. #2 on the right.

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[ray_parkhurst]

Don't worry about making adjustments to saturation, sharpening, shadow and highlight levels, etc. You can make whatever adjustments you need to make the images look more like the coin. It's good you are being conservative, and because of that you'll know when you've gone too far, so don't be afraid!

[jmangham]

Thanks! I definitely want to be conservative with it. The last thing I want to do is sell a coin then the buyer feel like he didn't get what he saw in the photo.

[kloccwork419]

Seems like your out of focus. I can't remember my setting but I usually take it up 2 sharpness on the photo professional. Not sure how you setup is but I lock the bottom screw of the bellow and adjust the top slowly to get the clear pic. If yours has a bellow. Don't know

Nevermind. It don't have a bellow. I would slowly adjust with the live view to get it clear as possible and then treat it on the professional

[jmangham]

This is a pic off of Ebay. I need the color of mine to look like this because this is what they actually look like. Any pointers? Thanks guys!

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[ray_parkhurst]

Yours just needs some adjustments to look like that. The eBay pic is very "juiced". Here are some simple ways to adjust yours to look similar:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ad273/rparkhurst/60D_Comparison.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

[jmangham]

Yours just needs some adjustments to look like that. The eBay pic is very "juiced". Here are some simple ways to adjust yours to look similar:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ad273/rparkhurst/60D_Comparison.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds


Exactly what I needed!