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How do you shoot photographs of your models? I find it hard to not get some part of them all blurry and no focus. feel free to to look at them and comment if you got any tips. Do anyone know how to paint camouflage by the way? the standard greenish one.

homebrew method -

You'll need a tripod, a cam with macro mode and a delay timer, and ideally two lamps both positioned slightly to the side, front and above the minis.

Assuming you don't have a light tent, cover the bulbs loosly with baking paper or kitchen roll to diffuse the light (or hang them between the mini and lamp somehow), and experiment with distance and placement untill it looks ok. Play around with cam distance too obv.

Backdrops should be non reflective, and choice of colour can drastically affect the outcome, so play around with different materials and tones.

If you've got access to any image manipulation software, then a quick crop to frame it well and a contrast tweak should be all thats needed.


Edit - Simple camo. Paint base colour (green in this case), paint whatever pattern of tan/brown you want (squares, squiggles, waves, tiger stripe, digi, etc), then finally some black overlapping both the green and tan to finish it off. Just remember to leave enough space so you dont end up with just tan and black visible.

Orki wrote:
Assuming you don't have a light tent, cover the bulbs loosly with baking paper or kitchen roll to diffuse the light (or hang them between the mini and lamp somehow), and experiment with distance and placement untill it looks ok.

Any fear of the paper catching fire? Sounds a bit dangerous, but really good.

Well as long as your not wrapping the bulb in paper and your using an energy saving bulb (are you able to buy non-energy saving bulbs where you live?) you'll be fine. I mean, I've seen people wrap lamps in rubber gloves sealing them off with rubber bands and those haven't caught fire

That makes sense