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[megroot]

Hello Guys,

Strucling with the digicam, i finally get some pictures off my spanish volunteer.
He is from cartago models and i bought it by figure royal (gino poppe).
In my opion it is a very well sculpted figure.
With your help and with help from my modeller club AMSS i think i did some nice brushstrokes.
Hope you like it, and please give some comments.
(if someone get the pics better please do it).

Greetings Marc.

 

[Bert Takken]

He Marc
have you read the article Marcel Jussen wrote about Photography of models?
In the basic the pics are good but unsharpen and I think this is a negative something to judge your figure, but what I can see, it isn't for sure not bad.
maybe you can highlighten the parts of the body wich are "horizontal" a bit more to give the figure more depth (I know, I know, it's always easier to give comments on other work then doe it by yourself.)
In the book of Sherperd Paine, the principe of the shadows on a figure, (on top more highlghten then the feet) as you don't have the book, I can try to convice my pc to scan that part and mail it to you.

It's a shame that at Twenot only figures after 1900 can shown, but give it a try, however, maybe you get some respons, you know it's not a Tiger or T34
Bert

 

[Roc]

Hey Mark, from what I can see it doesn't look bad, if you can sharpen the pictures a little, I might be able to see it a little better.

Keep the good work.

Roc.

 

[Bert Takken]

Hai mark
Yep, I think the pics are sharpen but maybe a bt bigger...............
Now I see the highlighten I mentioned before, so I have no comment. Please take this and your other figures with you at the next meeting of the Twenot (Should be Sneek?)
I've planned to sit there with a lot of my figures and just painting a bit or so, Just to let the panzerboys kno , there is more then Tigers and Jagdpanzers <BIG GRIN>
Bert

 

[vince wai]

Hi Marc,

The figure looks nice.

As for the photo itself, I think you had over-sharpened with the image as it start to show quite grainy ( or are they gif files ? ) . The best way is to shoot the picture at a higher resolution as a master file and scale it down for different usage ( such as uploading to a site ) and cropping. Also, if you mainly want to show the figure ( rather than the base ), try moving the camera closer because the base will occupy a lot of the valuable pixels of the image. By the way, if you try cropping your existing images ( shown here at this thread ) and enlarge it, the image quality will not be improved as the pixels will only become more pixelated. The best way is to start off with a image of higher resolution such as around 2000 pixels with the longest width and scale it down.

Hope this will help.

vince

 

[megroot]

Hello Bert,
Thanks for the nice comments. No i don't go to Sneek, it is about 350 km from my home. Twenot doesn't allowed romans, spanish soldiers ets. It has to be from ww I till this time. I do not paint such figure's.

Hello Vince.
I regrad that i sold all my SR camera's. I take the picture's with a resolution off 2496 X ???. As high as possible (5,1 milj. pix). I made pic's with lights, (set camera on that kind of lihgt) but no good results. Than with flash no results ( i know why), than with one light, in macro, and in tele.
The best results i remaked in irfanview to upload them. On my screen they look good, but not so good as the real figure.
My early pic's with this camera and under the same conditions are good.
So i do not know what is happen. Maybe i shall look what shutterspeed is on the camera when he take's the pic's.
Maybe i should consider a tripod the make the pics. They all free handed.

Thanks anyway.
Marc

 

[vince wai]

Hi Marc,

Do you know what file format you used to save the files( shown here in this site ) and uploaded to the site with your software? Gif or JPEG? I had downloaded your image file and the file name ended with ".php" ( for a JPEG file, it always ended with file name with".jpg" )

vince

 

[megroot]

Hi Vince,

I 'am now at work (still a half hour) than go on my racingbike for 40 km to home.
Then eating, showering, .
As soon as possible i go to the PC to see what format it is.
Ill send it to you by email, because i think it is off topic here. If not let me know.

Thanks for your help

Marc

 

[Guy]

Its not off topic Marc........alot of us learn from the discussions of others here. So post away here what you find out when you get home. I may learn something too..

 

[megroot]

Good Morning Guy,

Oke, i clean up the plaster of paris room (that's my work , fixing broken bones with plaster of paris) and i go home.
I posted here in these thread.

Thanks.

marc

 

[megroot]

So, i went home and i checked and rechecked the camera.
Gues What: The macro stand is reset to normal picture's when you had push the button. The selfrelease shutter is not working with macro without changing it in the menu.
So i made picture's freehanded with a shutterspeed off about 1/2 to 2 sec, without an apropriate lightexposure.
It give's blurry pic's out of color. :angry:

Now i've found the good settings i reworked all the pic's, deleted the other.

Now i hope that many people can give comments to my brushing.


Vince the picture's where in jpg. Thanks for all you comments its helpfull.


Greetings Marc.

 

[amherbert]

Those are nice pictures now!!!

The colors look good to me. A fine job on the figure. That's a lot of blue (similar to something I've been working on).

Thanks for fixing the pics.

Andy

 

[megroot]

Thanks Andy for the nice comment.
I hope you can attack the blue. It is a difficult colour. If you paint in acrylic, i have learned that you better highlight the blue with a mixture of your basecolour blue and a grey colour.
Hope you can something with this.

 

[Guy]

Much better pictures Marc........excellent painting with the blues....I like the subtle flow from dark to light blue.. For your third figure, I would say alot of us will have to watch out for you in the competitions......you may be a force to be reckoned with. Keep up the excellent work my friend

 

[megroot]

Thanks Guy,
But the comments are to great. It is gonna be excellent when i can paint just like You Guy, Gino Poppe, Larissa Tamberg, Lou Masses and all the masters and grandmasters here at PF.
And competition is at this time not for me.
I learned a lot from your comments here on the planet.
So I put all the nice words to all the guys who give the beginners the good advice's.

marc

 

[megroot]

Thanks Bert,

I agree with your statement off digicam's. I remember you had the such a problem with the digicam. My offer still stands.

Thanks for the comment

mARC

 

[vince wai]

Hi Marc,

Good to see you'd solve the problem Nice pics and hope you'll post more of your works soon.

vince

 

[amherbert]

Originally posted by megroot@Aug 11 2004, 01:51 PM
...
I hope you can attack the blue. It is a difficult colour. If you paint in acrylic, i have learned that you better highlight the blue with a mixture of your basecolour blue and a grey colour.
...

Hi

I know, blue is fun!

I have been painting a Pegaso Norman. His surcoat is blue. I used a French blue base with yellow and grey added for highlights and shaded with mostly red and darker blue. Unfortunately the fit of the subassemblies is awful. I dryfitted everything before painting, but not well enough I guess. I basically have to start over again, and don't feel like it!! The blues worked out for me, which was satisfying after fighting with reds on my last figure.

I find the complementary colors really added to the highlights and shadows.

Next up, a Napoleonic Dutch Imperial Guardsman - so I can work in white on white on white!!

Cheers
Andy

 

[megroot]

Originally posted by amherbert@Aug 12 2004, 04:26 AM
His surcoat is blue. I used a French blue base with yellow and grey added for highlights and shaded with mostly red and darker blue.
I find the complementary colors really added to the highlights and shadows.

I shell remember this tips. The next for me is a mountain man. The face is already done.
You get a great struggler there with the with's
Good Luck.

Marc