Hi all,
Just a quick note to say I've put up some pics of my collection of FT ships
at:
http://gallery.future-i.com/FTShips/
The captions on the photos relate to my own personal universe, but the ships
are recognisably from GZG and Brigade. I hope to add more when conditions
permit.
Does anybody have any good tips for photographing minis? I'm using a Fuji
S5000 & would be interested in any advice on lighting, camera modes and such
like.
Thanks,
Nick
> This gallery was created by Nick Dingle 54 minutes ago
Umm.... still steaming!
Er, I've a certain DD squadron commander that would have words about the
'Chinese' ships, as his name is definitely Slavic. ;->=
I must say I rather like how they all turned out, but high marks for the
Brigade items.
Particularly liked both the merchants and the separate colors on the
modules, and how you worked the the non-GZG into matching color schemes.
Not sure if the 'German' work as NSL as well as the SDN fits the ESU, but
that's personal taste.
Tony definitely needs to direct a thanks your way.
As I, for the pleasure of seeing them.
The_Beast
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:50:06PM +0100, Nicholas John Dingle wrote:
> http://gallery.future-i.com/FTShips/
Very nice!
> Does anybody have any good tips for photographing minis? I'm using a
I'd say that there is one technique which will get better results than any
other single thing (apart from focusing correctly): transverse light.
Miniatures by their nature tend to lose a bit of surface detail compared with
the "real thing"; and the conventional camera strobe, nearly coaxial with the
lens, washes that out even further. I like to have light coming in at about 45
degrees from the lens axis and not use
a built-in flash at all. (Then again, that's what I use for "real"
photography as well.)
It looks as if you're getting some of this already...
R
Doug, I concur - I've already asked Nick for some more pictures so we
can feature his models on our site.
All hail Nick !!! :-)
> Doug Evans wrote:
> This gallery was created by Nick Dingle 54 minutes ago
Hi again,
Sorry for the delay in getting back - with it being bank-holiday
weekend I didn't have chance to check my email.
> From The_Beast:
> Particularly liked both the merchants and the separate colors on the
Thanks! I'd originally intended to add more detail to the pods -
names, logos and the like - but they never seemed to come out right. I
have some of Brigade's smaller container ships as well, and have done
something similar with them. Plus one of their Heavy Freighters
(SFS-5006) which I painted yellow, and now it looks like a Vogon
Constructor Ship....
> Not sure if the 'German' work as NSL as well as the SDN fits the ESU,
The rest of my German fleet (well, squadron) is made up of GZG/Eureka
Oceanic Union ships, which match the flat, rectangular shape of the
Brigade BB/CVL quite well. I do have a few unpainted GZG NSL ships and
am planning to have them as interchangeable small power ships, perhaps Russian
or Argentine.....
I'd agree the SDN fits with ESU ships very well. Its shape is very similar to
GZG's BDN & CA (Voroshilov) in that range.
> From Roger:
> I'd say that there is one technique which will get better results than
> any other single thing (apart from focusing correctly): transverse
> compared with the "real thing"; and the conventional camera strobe,
OK. The lighting for these photos was provided by the two hallogen ceiling
lights I have in my room. They're poseable, so I tried to direct them in such
a way that they didn't bathe the minis in light
too badly. Are those types of bulbs preferable to standard 60W-ers for
photographing by, or is it much of a muchness?
Thanks to all again,
Nick
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:01:52PM +0100, Nicholas John Dingle wrote:
> OK. The lighting for these photos was provided by the two hallogen
With a digital camera, it's mainly a matter of seeing what that
particular camera responds to best - tweaking the white balance manually
can improve things vastly. I'm not a big fan of specialised lights, as
long as you have _enough_ light.