There is an art to Coin Photography. In this article in the Canadian Association for Photographic Art’s monthly magazine, Canadian Camera, I discuss coin collecting and coin photography and my inspirations for both. Since this was published, I’ve discovered Jack Black is another famous coin collector.

In coin image editing there are a lot of tasks that are repetitive, and thanks to Photoshop, they can be made into actions. If you’re only editing one image at a time, you might think actions are more work than they’re worth, but I think you’d be surprised.

It can be tricky to capture detail in dark coins, but under exposing a dark coin is not a problem you can fix in post-production. If you don’t capture the shadow information when you click the shutter, it’s lost for good.