First attempt at light box

[Chef Geoff]

Taff that exposure is technically perfect unyet still not what you would be after for a portrait. Not your fault or the cameras. photographs are one dimensional, a face is three dimensional and to capture that we have to use light to give both depth and form. that photograph is taken under ambient light so all skin tones will appear the same, thus flat. A coin on the other hand is one dimensional so we are only recording it's tonal range from it's brightest white to it's darkest black, the problem we are having is that the white is a grey-blue and the black is a dark grey.
God why did I ever give it up, I can feel the passion in me.lol
I shall have a read and get back to you later.

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Any better Geoff ?

[Chef Geoff]

Much much better Rob you can now see every little detail, in fact you could afford to give it 1/2 a stop more exposure, but its fine and you now have the contrast between the background and coin.

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Final effort Geoff

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

And side by side

[Chef Geoff]

Yes Rob thats got it, the last one was a bit out of focus but hey that's easy to sort out. the colour balance and contrast is sorted as is the exposure and the mystery is solved, well done.

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Thanks for all your help fella, I really appreciate it. I was about to sling the camera.

ps. Been reading up on Auto mode on reviews and it gets a slating. In manual its great though.