Posts: 1298 Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Location: S/E Missouri
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:41 am
While trying to work with backgrounds I thought I would try this one and it seemed to work fairly well.
I had been cropping the coin photo onto another background but that loses part of the rim in the process. This doesn't. It just takes away that shadowing on the background oposite the light source/s.
I placed a piece of clear cling wrap over a bowl, placed a coin in the center of the wrap and directed my lighting so that any shadows at the bottom of the bowl were not showing in the shot.
The first photo shows the coin setting on a piece of white paper and the second setting on teh clear wrap over the bowl.
Kinda looks like the coin is floating.
Steven
Nice suggestion. If the background is a problem, I usually create a different background, and move the image over to new background and erase the borders or move just the coin image with a circle cut to the new background. Several different ways to get things done, but your suggestion would work also. _________________ Richard S. Cooper
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I'm not a photography expert, but I read online somewhere about putting the coin on a drywall screw with a felt protector on the end. This raises the coin above the background so the shadow won't show up in the picture.
