how to photograph minatures well?

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**oscarhardwick**

how to photograph minatures well? from my gallery, you will see that i havent got a clue, i have a fuji finepix 8.3 megapixel digital camera, any advice is welcome.

thanks

oscar.

**lolzman**

do you use macro???

**oscarhardwick**

no, i dont know what it is

oscar.

**lolzman**

ok its for close up pictures ok........ if you look at your camera you'll see a little flower symbol button press it and take a pic with it on and without it on and you'll hopefully see a difference when you put them on the computer

**lolzman**

oh forgot to tell you with macro you press gently on the button(not all the way down) and wait for it to focus

**oscarhardwick**

Wow, that made a world of difference, thanks.

oscar.

**Flinty**

As well as judicious use of Macro stettings you want to make sure that you have a lot of ambient lighting. Using flash photograhy tends to wash out your model paint jobs.

Get a couple of powerful task lights and use them to illuminate the side you want to take a picture of. One of my friends took these for me and the lighting really helps make the picture.

**Lanceradvanced**

One tip that I got from a course in photographing arts and crafts, that's applicable to pieces larger than single minis,(Squads, Tanks, Armies) is to pull -back- and then zoom in, as close as you can, IIRC this gets you a good depth of field.

More light is -very- good, and you might want to get yourself a screen of somesort to soften the lights out so you don't get hotspots..

**Grandmaster**

Ive done an article on it here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Photographing_your_models

I will be adding to it so if there are anymore points you me to add and discuss please just ask.

I am a photographer by trade so i should be able to help with most things

Oh yeah my work site is here

http://www.hamiltonstudiosblog.blogspot.com