Photography - Backgrounds and Creating a "feel"

[redarmy27]

Hey guys,

I've been painting for a bit and feel that I'm improving, but I'm always having troubles with taking photos of the miniatures. While I get the basics of photography, I have trouble using backgrounds and some lighting. Do you guys use gradient backgrounds on paper? Cloth?

I'm interested to know what you all use for backgrounds and what colors you utilize.

Also, focal length and macro; do a lot of you guys go in to those in great detail? I'm primarily a wildlife/ sport photographer so taking pics of my miniatures is a bit different.

All the best,

Jake

 

[Pepperpot]

Maybe these two links might help you. The first one is a tutorial how to build a cheap photobox out of an Ikea bucket:
http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/2010/02/tutorial-how-to-build-photo-setup.html

And here are some free backgrounds, which you can easily print out:
http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/2010/05/photo-backgrounds.html

The other stuff/ tutorials on massive voodoo are also very worth to check out.

From what I have heard, one of the next miniature mentor video/ tutorials is supposed to cover the photography of miniatures.

 

[pmfs]

You can see colour backgrounds Here!!! last post.

Pedro

 

[redarmy27]

Thanks!

What kind paper do you guys print yours out on? I try to use "flat" paper, but the damn ink makes it shiny. Hmm...

 

[pmfs]

I use a sheet of cardboard without flash and very low ISO!
You can take your photos in any background, try grey or black and after use photoshop cs5, elements or other to change to the background you want.
Here!!!