Testing out Foldio on Zombie Soldiers

[Lawful Evil]

Got my Foldio delivered to work today. It's convenient and easy to use. It certainly helped my photography improve, but not to the levels I had hoped. I guess I'll work on all that a little more.
Copplestone zombie future soldiers, of course. Great, fun sculpts with large, easy to paint details. I'm particularly happy with the skin and eyes. I bought two packs and use the Totenkrantz mini from Reaper as a leader who can resurrect the zombies over and over again.

[von Lucky]

Let me know your thoughts on it in a few weeks. A light box is definitely something I think I also need to help take better photos.

[Mr Tough Guy]

pretty decent pics, but maybe a bit more light wouldn't hurt, did you get a Foldio 1 or 2 and how many light strips does it have. Been looking into getting one myself, but I'm thinking maybe I should wait till the Foldio 2 is on general sale

[zizi666]

If you happen to have a photo editor with an auto-adjust feature, use it on your photos.
I've built myself a lightbox with a milky white plastic container from Ikea and my pics are always dark but a simple click fixes that.
(I tried it with your photo and it was a lot more vibrant)

P.S. I also read that it might help to put a white and a black item next to the objects, but I don't know if that works with all cameras or just the high end models.

[Sangennaru]

That's cool! Seems to me that the background has no light enough. If you can light it to bright white, the photos will be cleaner!

And yes, some photo editing is always necessary in a softbox! ^_^

[Lawful Evil]

Thanks for the tips, lads, I'll try them out.

pretty decent pics, but maybe a bit more light wouldn't hurt, did you get a Foldio 1 or 2 and how many light strips does it have. Been looking into getting one myself, but I'm thinking maybe I should wait till the Foldio 2 is on general sale

Foldio 1, two strips, but I'm not sure where the best place to put the second strip is. Once it's attached it won't come off easily.

I tried using macro mode as many recommend, but the camera was focusing on say, an extended weapon or arm or head and blurring the rest of the miniatures body, a distance of half a cm or so!

[Sangennaru]

I tried using macro mode as many recommend, but the camera was focusing on say, an extended weapon or arm or head and blurring the rest of the miniatures body, a distance of half a cm or so!

If you can, try to reduce the camera lens aperture, from 2.4 to 8.1 or similar. Those number are just arbitrary, i hate photographers for that (being a physicist myself), but the idea is that will increase the focus depth.

[zizi666]

As for light strips : I did a search in a chinese webshop and found 9V operated LED strips and they where available in cool white.
maybe I should try them out for my box...

[stone-cold-lead]

I've not tried the foldio thing but did briefly try a light tent. To be honest I don't think they're necessary. They might work ok if you have a strong light source or a flash to bounce around inside them but the kind of make shift lighting that I guess most of us use just isn't strong enough to have much impact.

Here's my makeshift photography set up. It's a terrible image as I took it with my phone the other weekend when I was doing some photo's.



Two cheap desk lamps from Argos (for those of us in the UK), cost about £15 each and the bulbs replaced with daylight ones (can be pricey but they last years). Got to get them in really close to the subject to ensure enough light. A light tent would do absolutely nothing to improve the set up. I'm no pro though, I still had to do a little image correction in GIMP. If I could improve one thing it would be to get better lamps.

[Commander Vyper]

Cool.

Looking forward to mine coming across the pond.

Nice zed shots. Btw