Meep,
Your Campania, Naples, Silver, Part II photos look excellent. Whatever you've changed in your photography recently seems to be working!
Hi Cara,
Thanks for the compliment.
Actually, I didn't change anything in my photography. I'm doing the exact same thing I've been doing.
My
Campania,
Neapolis silver coins just happen to be coins that are easy to take photos of. They are silver, not bronze, which are notoriously difficult to take photos of, especially the darker ones. And they are nicely
toned. They don't have ridiculously lustrous surfaces, as my Cumae coins do. You may have noticed the
reverse photo of my last Cumae coin, with the
star symbol. It is very bright. The reason for this is that this coin is in very low grade, and it has very lustrous surfaces. I
had to place the coin on the grey towel at an undesirable angle in order to get the
star to be visible in the photo. When I tilted the coin at the normal angle, the
star wasn't visible in the photo (because it is so worn). When I laid it flat, the
star became visible, but the luster is blinding. I re-shot that coin about 7-8 times. Then, after posting it, I re-shot it again several more times. The new photos were worse than the one I
had previously posted, so I left it alone. I even tried shooting it with my lights off. It was worse, I assume because the dark background caused the camera's shutter to open more. This seems to be a problem with very low grade AR coins with very lustrous surfaces.
Meepzorp