Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'Smartphone photography'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • ++ GUESTS, ADVERTISERS, AND LOGGED OUT MEMBERS ++
    • + REGISTERING AN ACCOUNT +
    • + RECOVERING ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT +
    • + ADVERTISING AT THE B&C +
  • ++ COMMUNITY ++
    • + NEWS, RUMORS, AND BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS +
    • + AMICUS AEDES +
    • + EVENTS +
    • + INTRODUCE YOURSELF +
  • ++ SITE FEATURES ++
    • Articles
    • Blogs
    • Clubs
    • Downloads
    • Gallery
  • ++ FORGE ++
    • + GENERAL PCA QUESTIONS +
    • + WORKS IN PROGRESS +
    • + HALL OF HONOUR +
    • + TUTORIALS AND HOW TO'S +
  • ++ IMPERIUM ++
    • + ADEPTA SORORITAS +
    • + ADEPTUS ASTARTES +
    • + ADEPTUS MECHANICUS +
    • + ASTRA MILITARUM +
    • + IMPERIAL KNIGHTS +
    • + TALONS OF THE EMPEROR +
    • + THE IMPERIUM OF MANKIND +
  • ++ CHAOS ++
    • + CHAOS DAEMONS +
    • + CHAOS KNIGHTS +
    • + HERETIC ASTARTES +
    • + REALM OF CHAOS +
  • ++ XENOS ++
    • + AELDARI +
    • + DRUKHARI +
    • + GENESTEALER CULTS +
    • + LEAGUES OF VOTANN +
    • + NECRONS +
    • + ORKS +
    • + T'AU EMPIRE +
    • + TYRANIDS +
  • ++ STRATEGIUM ++
    • + OFFICIAL RULES +
    • + TACTICA +
    • + LIBER VICTORUM +
  • ++ THE HORUS HERESY ++
    • + AGE OF DARKNESS +
    • + ADEPTUS TITANICUS +
    • + AERONAUTICA IMPERIALIS +
    • + LEGIONS IMPERIALIS +
    • + WARHAMMER: THE HORUS HERESY +
  • ++ IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE ++
    • + OTHER GAMES +
    • + THE BLACK LIBRARY +
  • ++ FAN-MADE ++
    • + THE LIBER +
    • + HOMEGROWN RULES +
    • + SPECIAL PROJECTS +
    • + FAN FICTION +
  • ++ ORDO ADMINISTRATUM ++
    • + ABOUT THE COMMUNITY +
    • + BOLTER AND CHAINSWORD 101 +
    • + BUG REPORTS +
    • + THE SUGGESTION BOX +
  • Brotherhood of the Lost's Discussions
  • The Crusade Club's Rules Development
  • The Crusade Club's Saint Katherine's Aegis Campaign
  • The Crusade Club's General Discussion
  • North America's Discussions
  • South America's Discussions
  • Europe's Discussions
  • Asia's Discussions
  • Africa's Discussions
  • Australia's Discussions
  • 40K Action Figure Afficionados!'s Custom Figures
  • 40K Action Figure Afficionados!'s Fun Photos/Poses
  • + The Battles for Armageddon +'s Which War is Which?
  • + The Battles for Armageddon +'s Useful links
  • + The Battles for Armageddon +'s Discussions
  • +Some Things Are Best Left Forgotten+'s Topics
  • The Cabal of Dead Ink's Submissions Box
  • Oldhammer 40k's Oldhammer Discussions
  • Indomitus's Discussion
  • Metal Head Armory's Who is Who
  • Metal Head Armory's Horus Heresy
  • Metal Head Armory's Necromunda
  • Metal Head Armory's 40k
  • Metal Head Armory's Slow Grow League by MHA
  • Shadow War: Imperium's Discussion
  • Guerrilla Miniature Games's YouTube Videos

Categories

  • Painting & Modeling
    • Decals
  • Game Systems
    • Warhammer 40,000
    • Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy
    • Aeronautica Imperialis
    • Age of Darkness - Horus Heresy
    • Battlefleet Gothic
    • Epic
    • Gorkamorka
    • Inquisimunda/Inq28
    • Inquisitor
    • Kill Team
    • Necromunda
    • Shadow War: Armageddon
    • Space Hulk
    • Warhammer 40,000 Roleplaying Games
    • Other Games
  • Background (Lore)
    • Tools
  • Other Downloads
    • Army List Templates
    • Desktop Backgrounds
  • Legio Imprint
  • Oldhammer 40k's Oldhammer Files
  • Indomitus's Files
  • Shadow War: Imperium's Files

Calendars

  • Community Calendar
  • Warhammer Mt Gravatt Championship Store, Brisbane's Championship Store Events
  • North America's Calendar
  • South America's Calendar
  • Europe's Calendar
  • Asia's Calendar
  • Africa's Calendar
  • Australia's Calendar

Categories

  • DIYs
  • Editorials
  • Homegrown Rules
  • Lore
  • Product Reviews
  • Site Help Files
  • Tactica
  • Tutorials
  • Miscellaneous

Blogs

  • Noserenda's meandering path to dubious glory
  • Evil Eye's Butterfly Brain Induced Hobby Nonsense
  • The Aksha'i Cruentes - A World Eaters Crusade Blog
  • Waffling on - a Hobby blog about everything
  • + Necessary Ablation: apologist's blog +
  • I am the Very Model of a Modern Major Hobbyist
  • Liber Bellum
  • +Cooling the Rage+ Majkhel's blog
  • Drakhearts - Hobby blog and general musings
  • CFH test blog.
  • The Motive Force Was Inside You All Along
  • Spazmolytic's Trip into the Void
  • Wandering the Void
  • Skirmish Mats Product and Company News
  • Khornestar's Amateur Blood Blog
  • Its the Horus Apostasy, not Horus Heresy....
  • GreenScorpion Workbench
  • Flitter Flutter Goes the Hobby Mojo
  • The Yncarne's Hand
  • Conversions and Scratch Building Madness
  • Ordo Scientia
  • Doobles' slow grind to inbox zero
  • Death Angel
  • WAR's Blog
  • Xenith's Hobby Hangout
  • Brother Nathans...everythings...
  • Killersquid's Chaos Knights
  • 40K Feast & Famine
  • The Black & Red: An Accounting of the Malexis Sector and the Nihil Crusade
  • Plz motivate me blog
  • Wraithwing's Primaris Space Wolves - The Blackmanes
  • Brother Casman's Meanderings
  • Old Misadventures in Sci-Fi
  • My 40kreativity blog ( mostly art )
  • The Archives of Antios
  • Straight Outta the Warp - A Brazen Claws Blog
  • Lord Sondar
  • The Strifes of the Matteus Subsector
  • Some Little Plastic Homies
  • immortel
  • General hobby blog
  • Moonreaper's Lore Introspections and Ideas
  • Snakes of Ithaka Hobby Blog
  • McDougall Designs News blog
  • Grotz Hobby Hole Commissions
  • Stealth_Hobo's Hobby Blog (Imperial Fists and Other Stuff)
  • Wall A & B1 up to damp course
  • ZeroWolf's Hobby Madness
  • Saucermen Studios - 3D Printable Terrain
  • TTCombat Paints and Ultramarines
  • Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up
  • Faith and Teef, a toaae blog
  • Here There Be Monsters
  • Cult of the Octanic Blade - tinpact's Drukhari
  • Sons of the Dawn
  • Maybe this will help
  • Ashen Sentinels - an Ultima Founding Space Marine Chapter
  • Sanguine Paladins Hobby Blog
  • Silver Consuls-Rise to Glory
  • Gaston's Salamander Cult: A GSC Blog
  • A hobby journey for the Horus heresy
  • selnik's hobby blog
  • Tyriks's Tyranids
  • Halandaar's Badab Blog!
  • Saracen's Batreps
  • milddead’s Deathguard
  • TC's Odds and Sods
  • The Order of the Broken Arrow
  • Sporadic Hobby Thoughts
  • TheArtilleryman's Fighting Machines
  • Hobby And Design
  • Wormwoods' Various Projects
  • The Observation Post
  • the blog that will probably be renamed
  • Domhnall's hobby goodness
  • Tomcat's WH40K Laser Creations
  • Armata Strigoi
  • Zulu.Tango's Hobby Blog
  • Oni's work at work blog
  • Mazer's Model Meanderings
  • Sven's Hobby
  • Murder Cursed
  • Bolter and Chainsword online conference
  • The Thalassians
  • Uncle Mel's Ramblings

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


Website URL


ICQ


Yahoo


Jabber


Skype


Discord


Location


Interests


Faction


Armies played


CustomTitle

Found 1 result

  1. For many, herein lies an article which can safely be filed away under the title ` I Already Know.` A lot of us have smart or mobile phones with camera built in. Not a lot of us have what is required for high quality photographs of miniatures: really good digital cameras, light boxes, time and patience (I myself lack all four. Particularly the last two). However, all too often I see images posted of miniatures photographed with mobile phone cameras which are of pitifully poor quality. Bad lighting. Camera focused on the base or table. Camera focused on the keyboard behind the miniatures. Camera focused on the image on the book/miniature box behind/under the miniatures. Photo includes a lot of surroundings. Needs cropping. When you spent time painting miniatures to the best of your ability, isn’t it a shame you can’t present them a little better? If your painting isn’t all that good, if you can post reasonable images then other B&C members can give useful advice on how to improve your painting. The point of this tutorial is to show that it’s not that hard to take reasonable (dare I say decent?) images with the camera of a smart phone. Quickly too. Gear 1. Camera-equipped mobile or smart phone. If you have a digital camera, even a very basic one, you can improve your photographs with a bit more time and preparation. 2. Photographic background. Nothing fancy. A plain sheet of white paper under the miniature and curving up behind them will suffice, but a decent coloured one is better. Like the one you can download for free and print off from the B&C itself: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/files/file/7-photo-background/ Or, as I recently discovered, a black sheet (okay, I admit it: actually a plain black dress shirt or T-shirt). White paper background. Photographic gradient background Black sheet background All three were taken with the same camera, in the same lighting, same position. But that last one came out awful, didn't it? So I tried this: Put a piece of white paper in the corner of the photo. And cropped it out. Far better. Optional You can of course get decent photos with your smart phone camera’s basic build in app (including cropping, on an iPhone), but personally I prefer an app with a few more options: cropping, at the very least and adjustable exposure if possible. I’m not into cameras at all and the word `photo exposure` used to make me grumble “Sounds complicated” and run away. But stick with me here. I use Camera+ (which will set you back all of a pound/couple of dollars/perhaps 200 yen?) but there are likely a lot of other good apps out there. By all means reply with suggestions. What to do I don’t have good light in my living room. A combined 30 & 38Watt double-ring light. I put the miniature on the background sheet somewhere as well lit as possible. Camera shake is also a problem so, if you don’t have some kind of tripod (I’ve seen some smartphone cases with built in tripods) then make sure you can rest your elbows/forearms against something to steady your hands as well as possible while you snap away. Of course, you could put your phone on a surface and use a timer, but I find I’m rarely able to get the angles I want that way. Now get reasonably close, but not so close that your camera can’t focus on the model (sounds obvious, but considering some of the blurred images I’ve seen...). Even the basic iPhone camera app will focus on whatever you tap on the screen, so tap about a bit until you’ve got it focused on the miniature (not the base. Often my camera picks up on the texture of the base and stubbornly tries to focus on that. Don’t fight the machine spirit. Guide it where you want it). Now, if you’re using Camera+ you can tap on the little plus in the top right of the focus box.... ….to lock the focus, then move the exposure circle around (alright, that photo's blurred terribly, but that's because I had to push the power and menu buttons simultaneously for a screenshot). Experiment with this as, moving the exposure circle to a dark area on the image will lighten everything (and can get you far lighter photos than you might first expect. Using the gradient background gives you lighter and darker areas to experiment with). You can also fiddle with exposure compensation, focus lock, exposure lock and white balance lock at the bottom of the screen. Not something I’ve yet fiddled with. Let’s keep this simple. So, you’ve got your image focused (and nicely exposed). So take some shots. If possible press the shutter icon lightly rather than snapping shots with the volume button, which will probably move the camera. As I said before, try to make sure your arms are braced firmly. And take at least two shots of each angle as one will probably come out badly. Once you’ve taken plenty of images from various angles (try standing the mini atop a paint pot for some shots from low angles. Just make sure the background sheet is always behind the mini, please!) you can put away the background and mini, grab a coffee and either email the photos to your PC for uploading or - with your camera app - do some cropping and fiddle with other options. Camera+ also lets you fiddle afterwards with not only the exposure but clarity, rotating/flipping, straightening (if you’re shots are a bit wonky), tints, duotone, soft focus, film grain (combined with the sepia filter and film-like frame you can put together some nice shots), sharpening, blurring, saturation, temperature, brightness and contrast, highlights and shadows and vignette. All: Lightbox -> Edit -> The Lab. Most of which I have never used because I haven’t the time and I just want some good, clear shots. As good as you can get with a digital camera and a light box? No. But decent, I hope.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.