Taking Pictures part 1

So, I decided to take some photos of my figures to put up and show people. Turns out that taking detailed pictures of one inch high people is actually quite tricky. Who knew?
After some internet research and serious reading of camera manuals I figured out where to make a start.

First job, I need some more light, and I needed it to be diffused. Hmmm...




After some work with cardboard, greaseproof paper and gaffa tape I came up with this set up.





You can also see my youngest being helpful whilst I set this whole thing up and took the pictures. This wasn't a tricky thing to make, the main problem I'm going to have with it is storing it as the sheets of greaseproof paper are pretty fragile. I'll just have to keep it out of the way on top cupboards for now until I think of a better place.





The rhino came out a lot better than the pictures of the berserkers, not sure why, probably because it's bigger and took more light.

There's a lot more that I need to sort out, I could really do with a tripod. I'll need a bigger backdrop card as I struggled and, in one case failed, to frame the picture within it. I will need to figure out how to do F stop stuff and colour balancing, I've got all the information I need, I just haven't explored it yet. After I have conquered those hurdles the last stop will be loading the pictures into GIMP to play with the colours and some cropping there first before posting. I think it would also help if I had daylight bulbs in my three lights. Well, lots to be getting on with then.