Kimmo
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Adjusted, on the way!
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Briggsy
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Really interesting thread and a great result, thank you very much indeed.
Cheers Simon
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Blind Pew
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Really well done. Great use of the tank wedgie. An excellent job.
KenBoyle
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Beautifully done Kimmo! 
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Ken
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Ken
MoboSchreuder
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Excellent done
Mobo
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Hi Kimmo
Great finish , well painted and presented as always
Good V Bench to follow
Thanks for sharing
Looking forward to seeing the next
Happy benchtime
Nap
Great finish , well painted and presented as always
Good V Bench to follow
Thanks for sharing
Looking forward to seeing the next
Happy benchtime
Nap
WarhammerAdjacent
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Lovely work, I really like the way that it gives the sense that there's a lot going on just outside the vignette.
Kimmo
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Cheers Mike, Simon, Mario, BP, Ken, Mobo, Nap and Stefan!
Mario, the darkness comes from two things. First off, the figures are painted starting with a base of something much darker than normal. Think of it as going with the first shadow as your midtone and adjusting everything from there. The second is playing with the levels in your photo editing tool of choice. I use GIMP because it's free and honestly, as good as Photoshop without the proprietary Adobe bells and whistles that most of us will never need. Click for full size
On the left is the original, and the right has had the gamma (or mid) reduced by 8%. This darkens all the midtones and shadows slightly without altering the colours much. I also bump the contrast a little as well after, so you have to fiddle around a bit to understand how far you can go with either before you start losing information or change the overall feel. I normally edit all my photos for the simple reason that I don't have a permanent shooting space so the lighting and camera setup is always somewhat different from project to project and often from session to session. It sort of sounds like cheating, and if we start splitting hairs, it is. High end cameras have all this software built in so that when you adjust the settings on the camera for your shoot, all of this is done automatically. Again, hair splitting. Personally, I just try to get the best photos possible while remaining as true as possible to the original. One tip for shooting with a dark background is to bump back your exposure +/- on your menu. Unless you really know what you are doing and have a good camera/setup to begin with, your camera is probably going to read all the available information and come up with an exposure that is way too bright to compensate for the dark background.
Kimmo
that is also looking very nice ,I love the pics also that they be so dark,how do you do that??
But very very beautiful done
Mario
Mario, the darkness comes from two things. First off, the figures are painted starting with a base of something much darker than normal. Think of it as going with the first shadow as your midtone and adjusting everything from there. The second is playing with the levels in your photo editing tool of choice. I use GIMP because it's free and honestly, as good as Photoshop without the proprietary Adobe bells and whistles that most of us will never need. Click for full size
On the left is the original, and the right has had the gamma (or mid) reduced by 8%. This darkens all the midtones and shadows slightly without altering the colours much. I also bump the contrast a little as well after, so you have to fiddle around a bit to understand how far you can go with either before you start losing information or change the overall feel. I normally edit all my photos for the simple reason that I don't have a permanent shooting space so the lighting and camera setup is always somewhat different from project to project and often from session to session. It sort of sounds like cheating, and if we start splitting hairs, it is. High end cameras have all this software built in so that when you adjust the settings on the camera for your shoot, all of this is done automatically. Again, hair splitting. Personally, I just try to get the best photos possible while remaining as true as possible to the original. One tip for shooting with a dark background is to bump back your exposure +/- on your menu. Unless you really know what you are doing and have a good camera/setup to begin with, your camera is probably going to read all the available information and come up with an exposure that is way too bright to compensate for the dark background.
Kimmo
Hi Kimmo,
Thank you very much for the explanation,but gonna translated this ,because I don't understand everything ,sorry
I don't have GIMP ore photoshop ,but gonna look ore ask my son I f he know what he can do,it's changed a lot the pics,absolute very beautiful
but first I gonna translated si I understand everything,but........ thank you very much for the explanation how that works Kimmo,
appreciated this and absolute very beautiful diorama
Mario
Steve Ski
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Great job, Kimmo!
Oh boy
Have translated this but it's a lot,my son is going too look if he got time,because I never worked wit these programs,and my son is taking much pictures
so he can take a look
Thank you for this explanation Kimmo
Mario
