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Two Large "Beauties" & One Small...

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W.K.F.

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Many Thanks for the huge outpour of support for "photo help"...This, the "prelude" to that tutorial...

Greetings Collectors,

Thank you to all who wrote me, encouraging me to do a series on picture taking. I had many who have yet to post pics but want to and I had some of you that have but are open to picking up a tidbit of info to further their already worthy skills. I had those of you write that have been what I consider friends for some time and those that I had never heard of/from before. People from across the U.S. and two from Australia, one from Great Britian, and even had a fairly young collector from China. All eager to learn. Boy, I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew...

I just want to re-inerate that a "pro" I am not, so please understand that the tips I will share are a summary of that which was shared with me during my quest to become at least "fair" in the not so simple art of coin photography. The series will consist of several posts, the number of which at this point I am unsure. I am going to try and make each section short and to the point fully expecting those of you to experiment and "play with" that which you pick up.

I was going to wait about another week to give several more people the chance to get their tripods and there is one who will be getting her camera a week from today which is "payday". If I start a little earlier she and whoever else can always go to the "more journals" tab at the bottom left of collectors journals and pick up and read and/or print out any part that is missed. I will number each so that you will be able to tell if one has been missed.

I want to take the time in this prelude to have those of you that are in need of a simple to use "free download" to assist you in the editing of the pictures you will be taking. Some of you may already have editing software you are happy with and if you are, by all means stay with it. I was a "complete rookie and my friend Brandon from Hawaii turned me on and walked me through what is now my "mainstay" for all my cropping & re-sizing and the name is "Irfanview". Go to Irfanview.com and download the free version that is most compatible with your operating system. Once you have done that, play around with it if you want or you can wait 'til I walk you through the cropping/editing part followed by the most important, which is the re-sizing of your pics so that they will be under the 120KB size for posting pics to your sets and then you will have to reduce them further to less than 75KB for any that you want to include in a journal posting. For those of you that are just starting out, the Irfanview program along with the understanding as to the "limits" of what will be accepted "size wise" to our site here at the Collectors Society" is most important.

Lately I have been going "nuts" buying most every Franklin half dollar that gets within $10 of me along with picking up a few more silver bars. The ones you see here are from Lawrence & Son Refinery and from what I understand these bars are from the late 50's and are very very scarce. I already had the "rougher" looking large bar on the right, along with the small "one ounce" version (very rare size) but was able to snag a second 500 gram, 1/2 kilo bar just last week from some very dear friends who also happen to have an enormous hoard of many "one of a kind" very scarce to rare "old pour" bars. I know not what I will do when their stash finally runs dry. They have not said just how many unique bars they have left. 80% of my rarest bars have come from them. Forgive me for keeping their name secret.

So thank you to all and I hope everyone's weekend will be a very safe, "coin filled" weekend at that. Our anual 80-90 table coin show is up-coming the last weekend of this month so I am going to try and curb my auction spending and save a couple dollars for the show. I never have gone to one yet (a show) but what I didn't see something in gold that I just had to have, Thanks again to all of you out there in "Numismatic land" & as always, Happy Collecting!

WKF

P.S. My latest Franklin "buying binge" has pulled me to within 4-slots of you Harvey but your collection is still much more impressive with your average coin point total trouncing me almost two to one. Anyway I feel real good at 267. I may pass you this weekend. lol I wonder if I could get a few points for some of this 999 silver???

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