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UK Coin Site Updates
A Happy New Year to everyone.
I have been working on my web site again, and in particular trying to improve the images of copper and bronze coins. I have decided that trying to use a scanner is not very effective, as especially with darkly toned coins the colours are all wrong. I have bought a new digital camera, which takes excellent close-up pictures of coins without having to buy a macro lens. I still have to reduce the image sizes a lot, otherwise they take far too much of my limited web space, but the quality of those images that I have taken so far is a big improvement. The interesting thing is how much the background colour affects the images. White is no good - it causes under-exposure and I have not yet learnt quite how to regulate that. Black is good for silver coins, but makes coppers look too silvery. I have found green to be good for coppers, giving a good tone for the image of the coin itself (in fact the tone is improved over the original in some cases!) Have a look at the pictures of fractional farthings, farthings and copper pennies. Direct links: http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/fract.html http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/farth.html http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/pen1.html Bearing in mind the recent troll invasion (which my kill-file has very effectively dealt with), has not my random tag-line generator done well this time! -- Tony Clayton Coins of the UK : http://www.coinsoftheuk.info Sent using RISCOS on an Acorn Strong Arm RiscPC .... Sometimes you just have to say 'What the heck' |
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