Advice for taking pictures of mods
Posted 10/16/2010 at 07:54 by WolvieFan9
Here are a couple of recommendations for shooting pictures of Clix (learned through much trial and error):
- If you have a tripod, use it. You want to eliminate shaking of the camera altogether. If your camera has timer, that is even better, because then you don't get movement from the pressure of your finger on the shutter button.
- Keep the camera back about 2 feet from the figure.
- Set the camera to maximum pixelation. I have mine set to 5 megabyte pixels -- each photo comes out to about 1 meg in size. I then use my editing software (Photoshop) to crop it and resize the photo to make it about 300 Kb for posting.
- Don't zoom the camera hardly at all. The figure should be tiny in the picture when you take it. When you crop it way down with the editing software, the picture will be come big enough.
- If you can, use natural lighting. When I take pictures of my mods, I wait until the early afternoon, based on where the sun is going to hit my house -- and therefore the table I use to photograph -- at that time of the day. Don't get too much direct sunlight on the figure.
- If you have a tripod, use it. You want to eliminate shaking of the camera altogether. If your camera has timer, that is even better, because then you don't get movement from the pressure of your finger on the shutter button.
- Keep the camera back about 2 feet from the figure.
- Set the camera to maximum pixelation. I have mine set to 5 megabyte pixels -- each photo comes out to about 1 meg in size. I then use my editing software (Photoshop) to crop it and resize the photo to make it about 300 Kb for posting.
- Don't zoom the camera hardly at all. The figure should be tiny in the picture when you take it. When you crop it way down with the editing software, the picture will be come big enough.
- If you can, use natural lighting. When I take pictures of my mods, I wait until the early afternoon, based on where the sun is going to hit my house -- and therefore the table I use to photograph -- at that time of the day. Don't get too much direct sunlight on the figure.
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