HellChyld Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 okay I have atripod for the camera and I'm using 2 light sources from in front of the model using revlon<sp?> bulbs. with a test run on a bare plastic mini this is what I got. Wip001.jpg help on making them better as looking at it if I had to rate the pic between one and ten ten being best I think this is like a two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aretziel Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 try take the pic a but further away for the first and zoom, and then try put it closer and zoom out and see what happens ... some cameras have issues with full zooming I noticed ... as well as the focus ... can be hard to get a good focus on a small piece of mini as the camera not always focus at the centre piece in the lense ... another tip is to check the color balance in the camera, as well any macro ... this pic looks like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 2nd try thanks to Daeothar for cropping it and making it less dark http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/WIP002small(1).jpg might just be my monitor but does it seem to dark? and is it any better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 new pic were i cropped and adjusted the brightness and contrast I think I mave finally have some thing here http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip005.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orkdung Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 What sort of camera are you using? You need more light, and the last pic looks like you are focused on the rear guy to the right. Try to get an even focus, tap the button a few times, most cameras have an autofocus these days. There are also a lot of editing tools out there on the web for free. My girlfriend is big into camera software, so I'll grab some links from her tonight and post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Macsullius Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 right so its a digital, usually (with mine), you have to go into the picture menu on the camera, and select what type of picture u are taking - portrait, landscape, etc i have mine set on "flower" i..e. for a close up picture of a smallish object, with the camera quite close. gives a great shot with beautiful colours and i havent even got the best on the market. im using a casio ex-s100 heres an example http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h258/teddeeh/CIMG0412.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximo Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Well these are the problems i can see: 1. Bluriness either from not focused or camera shake 2. White balance is too yellow 3. A bit dark Now this is how i overcome these problems: 1. Bluriness: Your camera probably has a macro mode and in the manual it should tell you the minimum distance you can get to your subject while still focused. In most cameras the macro works best when the camera is a t the wide end of its zoom (fully zoomed out). So move your camera closer too the mini before zooming, try not to use any zoom at all. You said you're using a tripod so that should rule out camera shake. If you're still getting a bit of shake try using a remote for the camera (if you've got one) or setting the timer on the camera so you're not touching the camera at all. 2. White balance: the only way to fix this would be to cycle through the white balance modes on the camera until you get a good one. There should be a 'indoor' or 'tungsten' mode that reduces the yellows from normal light bulbs. 3. Darkness: You could either use more light in the form of brighter lights or taking photos during a sunny day in a nice bright room. Another option, because you have a tripod, would be to open the shutter for longer. That is if you're camera lets you do that. Anyway thats all i got. Im not the best photographer but since getting a new camera and applying the above photos of my mnis have greatly improved. If you wouldn't mind telling what camera you've got that would be a great help. Good luck with it. -max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted June 12, 2006 Author Share Posted June 12, 2006 I have a Vivitar Vivicam 4100 am gonna try acouple more pics with your suggestions ++edit: here are a couple new pics where i left the subject at the same spot and just used diffrent settings on my camera;++ http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip016.jpg http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip017.jpg http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip018.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted June 12, 2006 Author Share Posted June 12, 2006 after looking through the book on my camera and talking to a good friend i relized the macro mode wasn't being used. so here's the latest try with diffrent background and macro http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximo Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Those latest photos are much better. Yeah a good read of the manual always helps (something i still gotta do). I reckon the last of those three photos a couple of posts up has the most natural white balance. Though a bit hard to tell without paint. Anyway just keep mucking round with the camera. -max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted June 12, 2006 Author Share Posted June 12, 2006 okay i moved my set up so I had more light other then the lamps. took these and other then bumping the tripod on the second one took both the same way.dont understand why the first one is so much darker then the second http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip002.jpg http://lbc.emperorschildren.net/Wip003.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aretziel Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 I suggest you check so your settings in set to max quality, add MORE lights ... go get every darn spotlight you can find in the house and add around the mini, from front, sides and a top one facing down as well something maybe a bit from the back ... and cover each of them with a white fabric so the light get unfocused ... then check the macros again, and don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubal Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 To me it looks like you need more lights. Maybe someone mentioned it before, but now it's official :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juckto Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 The first one may be darker because you had something shading the camera's light sensor, so that it adjusted itself incorrectly. I think those last shots show that the camera is too close to the model, but that's just a hunch. Most digital cameras have 2 types of zoom, optical and digital. The optical zoom is real, it is the lens actually moving in and out of the casing. Once the lens is fully extended any furthur zoom is acheived by the digital zoom. The digital zoom is not real, do not use it. It is a mathematical algorthim that approximates surronding pixels by extrapolating from what pixels it currently does see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasma Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 What camera are you using? The 'blur' is split up into the colours of the spectrum- it looks like you're shooting through a big crystal, maybe you have an older digital camera? The light the models recieve should also be spread out evenly on your shooting area, to stop some models being brighter/darker than others, and make sure every model is the same distance away from the lense so that all of the models are in focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkkultist Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Go to The Lost Forums (these are the forums of my gaming club - link at bottom of this post) Go into the Painting and Modelling topic. There you will find a post about digital photography by dirty steve - My pictures are still far from perfect but they got 100% better than they had been by simply following those instructions. James K. Craig AKA tkkulitst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Belial Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 The guys at Baltimore GD told me that Fine Scale Modeller has a PDF about taking photos that GWUS recommends reading for all submissions. There was link around here somewhere. It helped me to slap these images of my AoR in progress. http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/GMBelial/Unforgiven/P6140008.jpghttp://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/GMBelial/Unforgiven/P6140007.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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