Re: [FT] Ship Pics

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:50:06PM +0100, Nicholas John Dingle wrote:

>http://gallery.future-i.com/FTShips/

Very nice!

>Does anybody have any good tips for photographing minis? I'm using a
>Fuji S5000 & would be interested in any advice on lighting, camera
>modes and such like.

I'd say that there is one technique which will get better results than 
any other single thing (apart from focusing correctly): transverse 
light. Miniatures by their nature tend to lose a bit of surface detail 
compared with the "real thing"; and the conventional camera strobe,
nearly coaxial with the lens, washes that out even further. I like to 
have light coming in at about 45 degrees from the lens axis and not use
a built-in flash at all. (Then again, that's what I use for "real"
photography as well.)

It looks as if you're getting some of this already...

R