crash course on coin photography? anyone? please?

[AstroTrain]

So I realized, quite quickly, I can not photograph a coin and get a decent picture. It's either blurry, or a the lights/flash block half the coin out. Any tips or places I can do some reading up?

 

I have a very high end camera and very low end skill set.

[Keigwin]

Mark Goodman's book and website.

Lance.

[cpm9ball]

You can start by turning off the flash and use lights that you can position at an angle so the light doesn't bounce back into the lens.

 

Chris

[AnkurJ]

1. SLr camera with macro lens

2. Copy stand

3. 2-3 lights

 

Mount camera with lens in stand. Set camera to aperature priority. Put lights at 10 and 2 o clock. Focus on coin. Take picture.

 

Play around, you'll get it.

[FILTHYHOARD]

Mark Goodman's book and website.

Lance.

I second that. Mr. Goodman's book helped me out a great deal in my improvement as a numismatic photographer. It's definitely worth picking up!

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[TomB]

Lance has given you excellent advice. Buy Mark Goodman's book, read it, understand it, take thousands of photos.

[newprepper]

Mark Goodman's book and website.

Lance.

I second that. Mr. Goodman's book helped me out a great deal in my improvement as a numismatic photographer. It's definitely worth picking up!

I'm FilthyHoard & I approve of this message!!

 

No political posts, haha

[brg5658]

1. SLr camera with macro lens

2. Copy stand

3. 2-3 lights

 

Mount camera with lens in stand. Set camera to aperature priority. Put lights at 10 and 2 o clock. Focus on coin. Take picture.

 

Play around, you'll get it.

 

If only it were that easy!

[AstroTrain]

Looks like I'll have some work ahead of me. Thank you for all the tips! I checked out mark goodmans website and the 5 minutes I looked it over gave me a ton of info.

[Hard Times]

Start with Mark's book, then depending how much you want to capture the beauty of coins will correlate with the time you need and the equipment. There is really no such thing as a 'crash course'. Like TomB says '1000s of photos, that is a minimum.....

 

Best, HT

[messydesk]

If you want to see a 45-minute presentation on how to take decent pictures with cheap equipment (the lessons apply to expensive equipment as well), I might have a couple DVDs left of the presentation I gave at FUN a couple years ago on this topic.

[newprepper]

If you want to see a 45-minute presentation on how to take decent pictures with cheap equipment (the lessons apply to expensive equipment as well), I might have a couple DVDs left of the presentation I gave at FUN a couple years ago on this topic.

 

That would be some youtube vids i would like to see, (or buy a dvd)

[CyberspaceVoid]

same here ... always willing to learn