Walking along a dusty dirt road, I just happened to see this 1943 Mercury Dime. Detected this one with my eyes. My gold stinger was in the closet at the house. This could have just as easily been a 20 dollar gold piece folks, so keep your eyes peeled.
I could have personally lost this one when I was a kid while in the woods hunting or maybe riding a horse. No telling how many bulldozers, tractors, combines, trucks etc have run over this one and it's still in pretty good shape for the shape it's in.
http://forum.goldgrubbin.com/forum/photos/members_other_pictures/images/30978/original.aspx
http://forum.goldgrubbin.com/forum/photos/members_other_pictures/images/30979/original.aspx
kellybrookme, I used a Kodak EasyShare CX 7530 digital camera set on the "closeup" (for pictures closer than 28 inches") setting. Turned the flash off and lighted the dime with a halogen desk lamp. I zoomed in on the coin from about 12 inches out until it filled the window, focused and shot. I put the coin on black construction paper for contrast. Anything shiney will reflect light back into the camera and cause a glare. One other great photographery trick is to take lots of photos and use the best ones. You'll sure have a heap of not so good ones. Costs nothing to do that with a digital camera, and all you have to do is press delete to get rid of a bad one.
The biggest cause of bad pictures is taking them from too far away. Unless you are shooting scenery of course. For good pictures of objects and people, shoot from as close as possible, and take a bunch of pictures then pick out the best and trash the rest.
Here are a couple pictures of the dime.
http://forum.goldgrubbin.com/forum/photos/members_other_pictures/picture31080.aspx
http://forum.goldgrubbin.com/forum/photos/members_other_pictures/picture31081.aspx
Herschel, This is great info! I was using a FUJI Finepix S700. I was using a white background. I had it on closeup but could not zoom without distortion. I'm reading the book to see if I can figure out why it won't zoom in closeup. I was out in another forum and found this on getting better pics of coins. Thats how I got the pictures of the dime. I am going to try it on a few of my nuggets to see how it works with them. This is the link.
http://www.metaldetectingmaine.com/index.php?topic=1105.0
Look at his photo's here.
Then look at them after I got through with them.
Here. http://forum.goldgrubbin.com/forum/photos/members_other_pictures/images/31099/original.aspx
Which are better?
Well, I guess they look about the same. My enhancement didn't do much.
He sure went through a lot of steps. I didn't have to do all that. My biggest problem is not doing the picture, I have to post to an online gallery in order to copy my own picture and put it in my pictures, and then I can upload to the forum. It's a Koday software thing. If you have their software/camera, they don't want it simple to move it out of Kodak software. I cannot right click and copy one of my own pictures in Kodac Easyshare. It's "easy" to "share" on line with their software. But doing anything else is a pain and a BUMMER!
That clay pot should be priceless.
Tell us about all the other coins. This sounds really neat.
Man have I got a lot to learn! What you did with his pictures is just what I wanted to do with the dime. I just need more practice.
ya, more practice
I'll go through the other coins and let you what I find. If I can figure this picture thing out I'll post a few more.
Take care, Tom