YeOldeCollector Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Got myself a new camera today, here are some photos I've taken. Let me know what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Nice clear pictures Clive What kind of camera and lighting do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Thanks Hus!! Using a Fuji FinePix S8000fd, 8MP, 18 x Optical Zoom and Super Macro. Absolute bargain which made it better! As for lighting, I'm still experimenting. At the moment am using a "natural" light lamp but it's slightly yellow so will probably buy a cheap one next week. Will fiddle around over the weekend and try to crack the 'perfect' combination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Thanks Hus!! Using a Fuji FinePix S8000fd, 8MP, 18 x Optical Zoom and Super Macro. Absolute bargain which made it better! As for lighting, I'm still experimenting. At the moment am using a "natural" light lamp but it's slightly yellow so will probably buy a cheap one next week. Will fiddle around over the weekend and try to crack the 'perfect' combination. The camera sounds good. My camera is OK, but I might upgrade. The thing I really struggle with is the lighting though. I might also need to buy specialist bulbs etc. Hope you find the "perfect" combination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Got myself a new camera today, here are some photos I've taken. Let me know what you think. I think we need to finally open that photog phorum. Great pics, Clive. I've got to say: maybe its the coins you chose to photograph or maybe its the new camera but something about each portrait was much more captivating than usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 "Got myself a new camera today, here are some photos I've taken. Let me know what you think" Bravo Clive. Great Photos, Great Coins, a joy to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Many thanks guys, after some tinkering I managed to get myself a decent portrait of one that I have always struggled with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Many thanks guys, after some tinkering I managed to get myself a decent portrait of one that I have always struggled with I thought that was a self-portrait Clive!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 I thought that was a self-portrait Clive!!! As much as I'd love to be English Royalty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 What's he looking at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 What's he looking at? No one will ever know... Perhaps he is keeping an eye over Normandy! Bearing in mind that the die engravers would usually never have seen the king and there were no photographs, that's why they differ so much from die to die. They were probably just told to make him look powerful and strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Many thanks guys, after some tinkering I managed to get myself a decent portrait of one that I have always struggled with. Is that a Tealby I see? Or a Henry I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 'tis a Henry I Quadrilateral on Cross Fleury Penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 I still haven't quite got round to getting a Henry I penny yet! One day, one day... Your's 'tis a beaut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldeCollector Posted August 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 This is Henry's most common type but the portrait is almost always blundered, this is a rare example as it has a fully visible portrait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Late Norman coinage is particularly difficult to get with good portraits! If you're into the Norman stuff, particularly the Henry I coinages and you want to know more of the history that surrounds then then i can recommend you read an article by Mark Blackburn entitled 'Coinage And Currency Under Henry I : A Review' - it deals with the dating of the issues and trying to work out how devastating the purging of the moneyers in 1124 actually was to the coin producing administration. Quite fascinating as he redates a lot of the series based upon the moneyer signatures. There was a copy of it in the Journal of Anglo-Norman studies for the year 1990. I have a paper copy of it, but no electronic copy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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