Sovereign Photo Thread...

[Silverlocks]

1 minute ago, Charliemouse said:

(Should really post this in the photo technique section, rather than here.  Maybe move it, or ask a mod?)

The contrast ratio on that thing is insane.  You may want to start exporting as PNG instead of JPG, to show it off even more.

I would just under expose a tiny smidgen, as it's almost too bright.  Shows the surface texture really well.

As for the lighting, humans are used to perceiving light coming from above, whereas you have shadows on the top.  This makes it looks like the coins are concave.

Imaging edge gives me the option of JPEG or TIFF.  I've found a raw to DNG converter that might let me get the images into photoshop.  And, yes, I think the images look like they're a bit over exposed, but the histograms don't seem to reflect that.  Still trying to make sense of the software, although I have managed to calibrate it on a grey card and lock the colour balance settings.

[Charliemouse]

4 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

Imaging edge gives me the option of JPEG or TIFF.  I've found a raw to DNG converter that might let me get the images into photoshop.  And, yes, I think the images look like they're a bit over exposed, but the histograms don't seem to reflect that.  Still trying to make sense of the software, although I have managed to calibrate it on a grey card and lock the colour balance settings.

No, it doesn't look like you are clipping.  But there needs to be a natural balance of lighter to darker, and I think these are heavily towards the lighter end.

Yes, Adobe RAW should do it, if you don't have Lightroom.  Once you have it in PS, you may as well just use PSD as your storage format.

That's the beauty of LR.  You can keep things in Raw, and make adjustments that are reversible.  Once they hit PS, there's no going back.

[Silverlocks]

Here's one with the exposure pulled down a bit.

Edited May 18, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Silverlocks]

It is a lot easier to get decent photos with this.

[Charliemouse]

18 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

It is a lot easier to get decent photos with this.

That's why they call it a camera.

[Silverlocks]

And now bringing in some extra lighting to bring up the coin's lustre.  This is so much easier than with the phone camera.

[Silverlocks]

A bit more exposure this time - 1958 Gillick taken with the ring light and incident lighting from about 10:30.  Also images saved at medium quality 800x800 pixels to save space - the files are less than 1/10 the size of the high quality ones.  This does a fairly good job of picking up the detail in Elizabeth's hair and wreath, something that isn't the easiest thing to do with Gillicks.

[Silverlocks]

Photo essay - the Gorgeous Georges Redux (again) Now I've got my new camera, here is a bunch of lustre shots of the Gorgeous Georges.  Enjoy. 1913 George V

1915 George V

1918S George V

1925 George V

1927SA George V

1930P George V

1931SA George V

1932SA George V

 

Edited May 20, 2023 by Silverlocks

[AaaGee]

Cant believe there aren't loads of these on this thread already!

[Silverlocks]

Photo Essay: Victoras Part I - Wyon Young Vic G&D Reverse. Taken with the shiny new camera of course. 1875M Young Victoria

1876 Young Victoria Weak strike  can be seen on obverse - look at lettering at the bottom of the coin, and Victoria's pomy tail.

1879M Young Victoria

1880M Young Victoria Looks like it's been polished at some point.

1884M Young Victoria Also polished, by the look.

Edited May 21, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Charliemouse]

1989 Double Sovereign

Lighting slabbed coins is very tricky.  In order to light the fields, I needed to angle the coin so that the light reflects off the surface.  But of course the light also reflects off the plastic of the slab.  With a diffuse light, this is not too bad, but it does drastically reduce the contrast.  Takes quite a lot of work to fix.

Or there is the easier option, angling the coin away from the light so the fields are dark but the colours are richer.

So which do you prefer?

 

[Solachesis]

2020 proof sovereign with George İİİ cypher 

[Solachesis]

Slow day, so here's all the sovs I've bought. Fun fact, I have none of them anymore.

Might do a post with all the halves.

 

Edited June 18, 2023 by Solachesis
Wrong photo

[Zhorro]

47 minutes ago, Solachesis said:

Slow day, so here's all the sovs I've bought. Fun fact, I have none of them anymore.

Might do a post with all the halves.

 

Is it spot the error?

[NGMD]

4 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

Is it spot the error?

1958 with Vic😁

[Solachesis]

2 minutes ago, NGMD said:

1958 with Vic😁

Ah bloody hell

[Silverlocks]

You should do a post with all the middle eastern stuff and the other world gold.

Edited June 20, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Charliemouse]

2014 Unfinished Proof

Used the same equipment as I do for photos, but popped the coin on a motorised turntable, and flipped the camera to video.  I think it works really well, and will use it again for showing off that lustre that is so difficult to capture in a single photo.

 

 

[modofantasma]

A few tubes

Edited June 22, 2023 by modofantasma

[Silverlocks]

[Solachesis]

11 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

Ed, Edd, n Eddy 

[Fishface220]

[richatthecroft]

Some lovely Sovereigns for your viewing pleasure.

To begin, the Sovereigns that kicked all of this madness off.

Coronation Issues

Special Reverses 

Special Reverse Shields

Strike on the day

 

 

Edited July 8, 2023 by richatthecroft

[Aldebaran]

On 08/07/2023 at 14:41, richatthecroft said:

Some lovely Sovereigns for your viewing pleasure.

To begin, the Sovereigns that kicked all of this madness off.

Coronation Issues

Special Reverses 

Special Reverse Shields

Strike on the day

 

 

This is a truly beautiful collection, thank you for showing them. 💛

[modofantasma]

As always @richatthecroft a tough post to follow. 

3 nice George V sovs