Woodgrain and Digital Photography

[nohope587]

OK Had a few days in dock.
Played with the f Settings and tried again.

Please don't tell me I need more light I have already made an enemy of the ships electrician by installing some new wiring and borrowing a 1,000 watt halogen light....

Not sure I like this any better but it does kind of show that the picture makes the coin. At first glance between this and my previous attempt you could be forgiven into thinking they were different coins...


http://www.mycoins.us/forum/DSC05572.JPG

[Paint Your Wagon]

This is definitely the best your camera can do
You got rid of the irksome white shine on the raised edges of the effigy
You got rid of the purple spots
If you save this in a 300 dpi png or lossles form it should print beautifully
Only improvement possible but I do not think that can be done without a DSLR is too raise your lamp to be directly above the coin without the camera throwing a shadow . Professionals with lots of money buy a lighted background that illuminates all shadows but I think a thing like that costs more then your camera . Conversely at this F8 setting you might try to put the light over the coin and to shoot the picture under an angel
with F8 you might find a focus for the total coin .
I played around some in photoshop but your picture is the best the camera can make

[triggersmob]

I would like to see how it looks on a black background.
I find that tends to make the edge detail stand out and it gets rid of the shadow.

[nohope587]

Will see what i can do....

[Paint Your Wagon]

I prefer blue violet since that is the complementary color to yellow orange which in color theory like in painting is very important
to generate something pleasing
Of course white and black are no colors but states of purity of the paint or ink or color

[Paint Your Wagon]

This blue is my favourite

[nohope587]

Here you go..
I think this represents the best I will ever get out of my current Camera. It Certainly beats 90% of the Pictures you see on eBay. Thank you PYW for all the tips. The only problem is now I want to go out and buy a DSLR to see what improvements I can get out of it. Now I have the set up as good as its going to get out here I am am going to attempt to write my new web site with some nicer pictures.

[Paint Your Wagon]

I got a DSLR and the possibilities and problems come hand in hand
You get RAW format and more distance away from the coin for the light to reach it , but the coin will not fill your photo
The lighting problem stays with up to three powerfull sources of which one straight above the coin without glare
If you take an all purpose lense you will need a set of lense magnifiers to get as close as 5 inch in focus
Otherwise you will have to pay a large amount for a 100 mm or 150 mm dedicated lense

I went with a 20 to 55 mm zoom which on my Canon DSLR has a 1.6 factor cause the receptor is small so I get 88 mm equivalent
And sofar I got a 3 diopters lense getting me within 5 inch of the coin which is 20 mm coin will fill the picture ( napoleon )
I will have to buy the full lense set ; and whilst control is total - I shoot pictures with a mouseclick straigth to my computer -
I do not want to spend another 600$ for a dedicated 150mm lense .
Also the learning curve starts over

[triggersmob]

Great looking pic, Richard. Although the background wasn't black enough, so you still have a shadow.

PYW, I like that that blue, looks fantastic.

I hope I don't sound critical, these pics are far better than mine.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Great looking pic, Richard. Although the background wasn't black enough, so you still have a shadow.

PYW, I like that that blue, looks fantastic.

I hope I don't sound critical, these pics are far better than mine.

I was colormatching specialist graduated at Princeton NY
For some time I installed and started up a colormatching computer and system to match plastic color with leather color amongst others for Mercedez
Because of this knowledge and my neighbour is japanese : me ; her and my wife painted on silk for ten years . So you need to know about the three basic colors and the color wheel and color complementary colrs and triangle colors and quadrangual colors ( ITTEN )
Anyway after I painted like 120 ties and gave away 40 And painted like 40 scarfs and gave away 15 And painted 7 wallmounted paintings not giving away any . I just stopped when I was fired the 2nd time . To much standing and bending whilst painting and no motivation left since I know I can design and colormatch and execute . All my pictures are printed analogs otherwise I would show some .
Orange and purple are complementary colors in the cycle of Itten