Today I Received.....

[Charliemouse]

2017 Fiji (Scottsdale Mint) 1oz Silver: Hokusai - The Great Wave

Always loved this design.  Difficult to photograph in the capsule, it is actually still in OMP.  I might have to break it out in order to get a better picture.

[Pm1987]

16 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

2017 Fiji (Scottsdale Mint) 1oz Silver: Hokusai - The Great Wave

Always loved this design.  Difficult to photograph in the capsule, it is actually still in OMP.  I might have to break it out in order to get a better picture.

These are fantastic in hand. 

[Silverlocks]

Not really enough contrast on the obverse, but here's one in the flesh, as it were.

[cjbcomm]

Duo of doubles courtesy of @CoinCupboard. Gotta love a double 

 

[Silverlocks]

2017 1/10 Kangaroo 250 diffuser gel with some strips of 4 stop filter to give the device something to reflect.

Edited March 23 by Silverlocks

[James32]

4 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

250 diffuser gel with some strips of 4 stop filter to give the device something to reflect

Personally would have chosen 3 stop filter, but overall a decent picture 😆 

[motorbikez]

Another 3 beautiful kooks for my 69/70 graded date run only about 10 to go.

 

[Petra]

21 minutes ago, motorbikez said:

Another 3 beautiful kooks for my 69/70 graded date run only about 10 to go.

 

Looking great🤔👍

[Petra]

7 hours ago, Silverlocks said:

2017 1/10 Kangaroo 250 diffuser gel with some strips of 4 stop filter to give the device something to reflect.

Whatever your comment to this picture means🤔….. a really great looking picture 🤔😮😁

[CazLikesCoins]

Half a kilo 'o' finest silver!

With Armageddon around the corner I can well imagine silver becoming the coin of the realm. Besides, what is gold without silver? It's like Starsky without Hutch or Laurel without Hardy. So I got these. 100 gram silver bars, and lovely they are too ...

[Silverlocks]

1 hour ago, Petra said:

Whatever your comment to this picture means🤔….. a really great looking picture 🤔😮😁

Translation:

250 is a particular grade or part number of translucent plastic lighting gel to make the light from the source flatter if you shine the light through the gel.  I've got some that diffuses the light less, which has a different part number.

4 stop filter is smoky grey coloured plastic that blocks 15/16 of the light going through.  I found that blocking all the light with a bit of card made the shadows too dark and you couldn't see the detail.  Some of the others I've done recently were with 1 or 2 stop gels, which block 1/2 and 3/4 of the light respectively, but I thought they weren't contrasty enough so I tried some 4 stop gel.

[CazLikesCoins]

Just now, Silverlocks said:

Translation:

250 is a particular grade or part number of translucent plastic lighting gel to make the light from the source flatter if you shine the light through the gel.  I've got some that diffuses the light less, which has a different part number.

4 stop filter is smoky grey coloured plastic that blocks 15/16 of the light going through.  I found that blocking all the light with a bit of card made the shadows too dark and you couldn't see the detail.  Some of the others I've done recently were with 1 or 2 stop gels, which block 1/2 and 3/4 of the light respectively, but I thought they weren't contrasty enough so I tried some 4 stop gel.

I took my pix with an iPhone under a light bulb while having a cup of tea 🤣

[Silverlocks]

12 minutes ago, CazLikesCoins said:

I took my pix with an iPhone under a light bulb while having a cup of tea 🤣

I had a nice cup of coffee while I was taking my pix too.  I couldn't afford an iPhone so I bought a camera instead.  Now I have little bits of lighting gel all over my desk.

Edited March 23 by Silverlocks

[CazLikesCoins]

On 21/03/2024 at 19:38, Xander said:

Some more coins arrived today. The Mary Gillick Sovereign run. I need to invest in a decent camera.

Oh ... my ... gosh! That set is up there with .... 

 

[CazLikesCoins]

1 minute ago, Silverlocks said:

I had a nice cup of coffee while I was taking my pix too.  I couldn't afford an iPhone so I bought a camera instead.

I've got an old Canon 5D Mk3. The pix from it are amazing. I'd never get rid of it. Although I'm a bit lazy and never get it out anymore. Convenience over quality every time here lol.

[Silverlocks]

9 minutes ago, CazLikesCoins said:

I've got an old Canon 5D Mk3. The pix from it are amazing. I'd never get rid of it. Although I'm a bit lazy and never get it out anymore. Convenience over quality every time here lol.

My phone wasn't really satisfactory - its camera really was a bit c**p and the clip-on macro lens wouldn't let it focus more than a few cm away, which made things a bugger to light.  I took the plunge about a year or so ago and got a Sony A6400.  The camera cost about £630 - I did consider getting a secondhand A6300, which would have been about £350.  The macro lens cost about £180. 

When I was hunting about on t'interwebs the main claim to fame of the Sony was good support for tethering software.

I think the packet of lighting gels I ordered from Lee cost more than the panel light I was using to light the coin did.

Edited March 23 by Silverlocks

[CazLikesCoins]

6 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

My phone wasn't really satisfactory - its camera really was a bit c**p and the clip-on macro lens wouldn't let it focus more than a few cm away, which made things a bugger to light.  I took the plunge about a year or so ago and got a Sony A6400.  The camera cost about £630 - I did consider getting a secondhand A6300, which would have been about £350.  The macro lens cost about £180. 

When I was hunting about on t'interwebs the main claim to fame of the Sony was good support for tethering software.

I don't think a dedicated camera set up can be beat, no matter how far they advance miniature tech in phones ect. I've still got all my old kit, I used to do a lot pf photography and publish to stock sites. I'm still getting royalties for pix I took 20 years ago. Have you tried the photo stock website Alamy? Money for old rope, or pix rather. I sold a pic of a snail in a garden that ended up in U.S reference books, and a pic of my little cat - she ended up on a Calendar. I don't  know which month, but she looks like a  February lol. 🤣 

Anyway I've gone a bit de-rail-y so I'll bugger off lol.

Edited March 23 by CazLikesCoins

[bobski]

3 minutes ago, CazLikesCoins said:

I don't think a dedicated camera set up can be beat, no matter how far they advance miniature tech in phones ect. I've still got all my old kit, I used to do a lot pf photography and publish to stock sites. I'm still getting royalties for pix I took 20 years ago. Have you tried the photo stock website Alamy? Money for old rope, or pix rather. I sold a pic of a snail in a garden that ended up in U.S reference books, and a pic of my little cat - she ended up on a Calendar. I don't  know which month, but she looks like a  February lol. 🤣 

What’s PF photography? Excuse my specialness

[Charliemouse]

3 minutes ago, bobski said:

What’s PF photography? Excuse my specialness

I think it was a typo.  "a lot of photography"  If it wasn't, I haven't heard of it.

[Silverlocks]

5 minutes ago, bobski said:

What’s PF photography? Excuse my specialness

Fat fingering the 'O' key, I think.

Edited March 23 by Silverlocks

[Charliemouse]

@Silverlocks and @CazLikesCoins . Hate to be that guy, but you know there's a whole section for discussing coin photography, and this isn't it.  We're spamming lots of people's feeds here.

[bobski]

3 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

I think it was a typo.  "a lot of photography"  If it wasn't, I haven't heard of it.

I was speculating hard. Portfolio? Proof? Pornographer fortnightly? 

[CazLikesCoins]

20 minutes ago, bobski said:

What’s PF photography? Excuse my specialness

Dunno, brain stem issues, too much coffee, 5G signals interfering with my thoughts? Could be anything, but it's probably a typo

[CazLikesCoins]

18 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

Fat fingering the 'O' key, I think.

True! Too many biscuits 😂

[CazLikesCoins]

18 minutes ago, Charliemouse said:

@Silverlocks and @CazLikesCoins . Hate to be that guy, but you know there's a whole section for discussing coin photography, and this isn't it.  We're spamming lots of people's feeds here.

Agreed. Will bugger off. In my defence I did get drawn back in. But I'm off properly this time.