Taking photo's of your mini's

[Colonel Tasalof]

Ok just a quick post for taking pictures of your mini's. The best way to do it is to set ur mini up infront of a white canvas. Then place one or two lamps pointing directly at the mini on the left and right side of you. And finally you stand between the lamps. This way you will get a good looking mini and won't be hard to see.

Colonel Tasalof

[Deleted]

2 more things I might add: A tripod (or at least a bunch of books for the camera to stand on) and macro mode on the camera are a must.

[dethklok]

actually i find it best to use a peice of white poster paper as your backgroud and curve it this way you do not get a horrible shadow effect. Make sure the mini is on the sheet.
cheers

[Deleted]

Darn! i wish i had a digital camera to take some photos with

[Deleted]

use an analog and a polariod to test it. Oh, also, some of you guys may have focus problems. I solve this by putting the mini about halfway across a room and zooming in 12x. It focuses the model wonderfully (not great, but needs want) but blurs the background like no other. still, if it's a white bg, then this may prove a simple solution.

[Deleted]

If your digital camera has a "macro" fuction, use it!! It makes closeup-pictures of small objects crystal clear.

It usually looks like a flower on the camera menu

[Deleted]

Once you take a picture of your mini you should so put it as your pic for the side of all replies.

[Deleted]

i take pictures of my miniatures by taking a piece of paper and put it in a swooping shape with the use of some kind of support in back of it...this allows the background to be all white without any edges or weird lighting. also if you dont have special lamps...do what i do...do it next to a window...or under intense light... another important part about taking photos of your miniatures is the manual settings on your camera...make sure the lighting is correct and that its in digital macro if the camera offers it

[commissarbob]

If at all possible use full spectrum lighting or sunlight. If you are in the northern hemisphere the ideal is what is called a 'north light' meaning basically indirect sunlight.

[Deleted]

i usually take pictures of mine outside inna daylight seems to do ok apart form when its clouded over lol

[Melissia]

Ugh. No offense dude, but the thread title gives me a headache... there's no need for apostrophes at all.

[Deleted]

heres a tip if you only have a camera on your mobile phone like me (cell phone for you guys in the states) get yourself a magnifying glass and place it over the lense, this makes your picture a lot more clear for close up pictures which always just end up being blurry when you hold the camera near a figure.

[stovrose]

My camera phone tries to adjust. Didn't work for me

[Deleted]

turn off the auto focus thing.

[treadiculous]

Is there a preferred size of picture, as mine always seem huge in this forum... but then i like that cus it shows of the image well.. i just wondered if it annoyed folk... for example :

[privateflippy]

@treadculius Are you sure you have enough heavy weapons?

[angelusmortis]

Jun 10, 2010 17:14:18 GMT -5 privateflippy said:

@treadculius Are you sure you have enough heavy weapons?

Thats a start for one platoon if you ask me. You should see my Krieg arty. Talk about overkill.

[Ymmot (M.I.A)]

There is so much threadromancy going on in this topic that I don't even know if it is worth mentioning that you should not threadromance.

[ElegaicRequiem]

I thoroughly enjoyed how every post came in a about a year apart for a couple bits...