<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cabb0c82-52da-4a85-a93b-8ccad075c2f1/B92FC908-812E-4A23-92A2-6297341CEBD4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html" href="http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html" style="font-size: 11px;">home.comcast.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html"><H1>Experiments in Coin Photography - 2008</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html">It has been several years since I have updated my material on the photography of ancient coins so this page will offer opinions developed since my earlier pages which are linked at the bottom of this page. Opinions may differ on whether my coin photos have improved in these last few years but at least a few images have benefited from what I have learned. There is room for several opinions on the questions that face a photographer of ancient coins and we all must decide which style best renders the coin as we would like it to be seen. It should be obvious that some coins, like some people, take better pictures than others. We have to decide if we are trying to make each subject "Hollywood Handsome" or going for "Passport Photos" which show the coin with brutal honesty</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/home.comcast.net/img/5BBC72B7-9B6F-4528-BE80-802ED0A05C16" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.comcast.net/~dougsmit/coinphoto2008.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/home.comcast.net/img/C75825FD-0BCD-46A5-A249-4743C28E4C5F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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