There's nothing worse than to have a nice coin and post BAD pictures of it.

I have struggled over the years with taking pictures of my coins. There have been times when I nailed it, but always out of perseverance and simple dumb luck. I'm not the type to apply the Scientific Method. I just get in there and poke around with a stick.

With a little bit of advice from some friends here I started a more systematic approach. Controlling light and the movement of the camera is a perfect start, but not the complete "picture". I continue working with the manual settings and I am finding that not all coins are created alike. Settings need to be tweaked and lighting needs to be adjusted.

Perfection is not my goal. I simply don't have that much time. I will say that the quality of my photography will be stepped up as I go back through my Lincoln Memorial set.

The gallery setting on that particular collection will show the good, bad and, well, bad.

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