Digital Photography Captures Your Best
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Digital photography has become the number one method of picturing and then sharing your scale modeling efforts but knowing the type camera you need and the lighting starts one down a dizzying road of new technology when it comes to cameras.
This guide will develop over time as reading is easier when you can break a subject as wide as photography into information-packed morsels. It is easier to find what you need and far easier to ready than to try and absorb the whole book.
Photo Setup Takes More Than A Light
The guide presents tips and techniques of digital photography that will help you in picturing your scale model and further getting it up online where others can view, comment about it and learn from it.
Everyone has heard the phrase RTFM (ReadTheFrigginManual) and it is good advice. Cameras today are likely to be very complex and some offer features that are new to many photographers.
The trade-off is today’s cameras, particularly the digitals, have taken us to new heights when it comes to successfully photographing a scale model and than getting it online. This process was a lot more difficult and time consuming in the days of film photography.
You were dealing with pictures in the range 10 inches in width by 7 inches high, weighing in at 423,890 bytes, notoriously slow to load. By the simple acto of cropping or reducing the photo size to a comfortable web size 4.6" X 2.2", you will cut its weight to 21,336 bytes--Now that's a diet!
For the most part tabletop photography lends itself well to creating some dramatic scale model photos. Many modelers rush their creations out doors to take advantage of the sunlight, but I prefer have more direct control over the lighting let alone the weather. This video will give you some ideas:
For the most part tabletop photography lends itself well to creating some dramatic scale model photos. Many modelers rush their creations out doors to take advantage of the sunlight, but I prefer have more direct control over the lighting let alone the weather. This video will give you some ideas:
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The film below shows how natural lighting, unusual angles and close-up action can improve your railroad model photography.
