Bicentennial Quarter
by Lonnie Paulson
Title
Bicentennial Quarter
Artist
Lonnie Paulson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
One of my first projects I did when I got my macro lens was to photograph some of my coins. I saved this coin from 1976. I photographed the back of a 1976 Bicentennial quarter with a Nikon D90 and the lens I used was a Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 macro lens. I mounted the camera on a copy stand so I could look directly down on the coin. The quarter was placed on a sheet of glass elevated above a black background for separation of the coin from the background. For the lighting I used a Nikon SB-600 speedlight mounted in a 5.5" x 8" soft box with a outside diffuser added. The placement of the softbox was in back of the set-up and very close. and very low to the coin. I held the soft box right up against the glass sheet to get good relief in the coin. The exposure was f/16 at ISO 100 and the shutter was synched with flash at 1/200 sec. I cropped the image as a square and converted it to black-and-white.
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May 27th, 2017
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