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Favorites Before Mirrorless

Pileated Woodpecker male	Goldfinch on Sunflower	Ash Cave	Dayflower - Commelina communis
Bleeding Heart	Red Bellied Woodpecker - male	Green Horsefly	Aurelian Lion
Tulip Poplar	Tomato Hornworm	Bumblebee on Echinacea	Baby Owl
Gauley Bridge Falls, WV	Juvenile Downy Woodpecker	Lepidophora lepidocera or related species of 'bee fly'	Hummingbird moth
Aphids on Gladiolus	Turks Cap Lily	Passionflower	Passionflower
Sulphurs	Thread Waisted Wasps	Watching TV	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Giraffe	Red Tailed Hawk	Tufted Titmouse	Pileated Woodpecker male
Siberian Iris	Turk's Cap Lily	Passionflower	Gladiolus
Hummingbird Moth	Assassin Bug - Arilus cristatus	Lygaeus kalmii - Small Milkweed Bug - on Sunflower	Praying Mantis
Rescuing Flooded Pumpkins	Spider on Hyacinth Bean	Sandbox	St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Lewes, Delaware
Male Mosquito - Psorophora ferox	Turk's Cap Lily	Wasp cleaning wings	Disassembling Christmas
Crab Spider on Buddeleia	Hummingbird Moth	Bumblebee moth	Mountain Horned Dragon - Acanthosaura capra
Mountain Laurel - Kalmia latifolia	Passionflower	Pink Ladyslipper 2007	Pink Ladyslipper 2007
The Easter lizard?	Rough Green Snake	Camille - Chamaeleo triceros sternfeldi	The Staredown
Mantis on Passiflora	Richmond	High Five	Piliated Woodpecker female
Blackstone	Blackstone

Doug Smith		01-Jan-2009 12:21
Backgrounds are a matter of personal preference. I prefer black backgrounds. I have taken some with white and find the brightness distracts from the coin. There are some coins that look better to me on a medium gray but I usually only do white when shooting for a print publication. Black or white are much easier to match for front and back than gray or other colors. My use of a dowel post to support the coin also works better with black. If you have not seen my pages on the subject, you might find interest in the following or ones linked from it. http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html I know of no SLR that allows swivel but you can now get some models with a feature called 'live view' that allows previewing electronically which should allow a cable to transport the image to a computer monitor which could be used while seated. That seems more trouble than it may be worth so I would still suggest using a good non-SLR. I shot most of the coins for my illustrations of the Failmezger book on Late Roman while reclining following leg surgery. There is a picture of the rig used for that at the bottom of one of my old coin photo pages. The old pages reflect the degree of advancement I had back then and are a bit embarrassing now. http://dougsmith.ancients.info/990nikon.html I always shoot RAW and postprocess most images in Canon DPP finished off and obverse/reversed merged in Photoshop Elements 6. When doing a lot of coins at a time, I use the RAW conversion utility of Elements which is easier to do as it allows seeing both sides of the coin on screen together and avoids the need to create intermediate TIFF files which need to be deleted later. I find I get better quality on nature photos from DPP but there really is not noticeable difference with coins.

Bill Donovan		11-Oct-2008 21:16
These are great, I really like to pics of birds.

firstbrook		11-Nov-2006 23:30
Fantastic favourites gallery.......excellent photography

Guest		11-Nov-2006 01:22
I can see why these are your favorites. You have an outstanding collection of photos in this gallery.

Mary Sue Smith		15-May-2006 23:34
Doug, what beautiful photos! Stunning! As an amateur photobug I am so in awe. Of course, I'm not into the wonderful equipment that you obviously have learned to use like an artist! I'm taking photos (on a tripod), aimed out my back sliding door (usually dirty) at the wonderful birds visiting my feeder. But, we love all the visitors!

Guest		10-May-2006 23:38
Excellent gallery, my compliments to the chief. :>)

Guest		08-Feb-2006 15:00
Beautiful gallery and fantastic work. I love the colours and choice of subejects. Michael

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