How to take (great)

photographs of
miniatures

FUN FACT
I started to learn photography to make great
pictures of my miniatures. Then I became a
better photographer than a miniatures painter.
And Im finally a professional photographer

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PHOTO/GRAPHY

Write with light

GOOD NEWS!

Miniatures painting
= painting light

so you all are photographers

THE ART OF
NEUTRALITY
Photographing miniatures is not an art. Painting the miniature is
the art. The photographs should show the miniature the most
honest and real as possible without any interpretation.

What makes a miniatures

photograph great?

Right exposure
Sharp deep of field
Global, neutral & soft light
A great miniature :-)

Underexposed

Right exposed

Overexposed

The focus is on the gun,

not interesting

The focus is on the face,

better but not yet there

The whole miniature is

in focus

Shadow and highlights created by the

ambient light, not by the painter

HOW TO WRITE WITH LIGHT?

BORING TIME, SPOILER ALERT

THE CAMERA

TOP VIEW

light

Shutter speed
vitesse dobturation

Aperture
ouverture
ex: 2.8

ex: 1/250

ISO
ISO :)
ex: 400

LETS
MAKE IT
FUN
:

photo exposition
explained by
Mario Bros

Exposition
Aperture
ouverture

1 sec

2 sec

3 sec

Shutter speed
vitesse dobturation

OK BUT
MARIO?
for those who didnt get is,
Marios a plumber

SHUTTER SPEED /
VITESSE DOBTURATION

1/300 sec

1/40 sec

1 sec

NO CHANCE TO HAVE MY
MINIATURE MOVING

APERTURE / OUVERTURE

APERTURE / OUVERTURE

APERTURE / OUVERTURE

APERTURE / OUVERTURE

ISO

ISO NOISE
100 ISO

SMOOTH

800 ISO

1600 ISO

GRAIN

THERE IS ANY
RIGHT UNIVERSAL
ISO SETTING TO
AVOID NOISE. IT
DEPEND ON YOUR
CAMERA

Its ok I can fix noise on my computer

CHEATER SHEET
NOISE

MOTION BLUR

DEEP OF FIELD

The right exposure following your camera

Right exposure following your eyes

Right exposure following the camera

Right exposure following your eyes

Right exposure following the camera

LETS TALK ABOUT

THE FOCAL LENGTH

YOUR CAMERA HAS 85% OF CHANCE TO BE IN THIS RANGE

THE VALUES ARE UNIVERSAL BUT THE CROPPING

DEPEND ON THE SIZE OF YOUR SENSOR

LOST?
FUCK IT AND
GRAB A
50MM!

BY THE WAY MACRO

LENSES ARE FOR
FLOWERS AND BUGS

THE LIGHT

Light we experience it everyday.

When there is any light there is nothing. We observe it since
we are kids but its still so hard to understand and master.

The law of light

The inverse square law

INTENSITY OF LIGHT IS INVERSELY

PROPORTIONAL TO THE SQUARE OF THE
DISTANCE FROM THE SOURCE OF THE LIGHT

Me to physics
and mathematics

The light intensity decreases slower

than the distance between the subject
of the light source

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

nope wasnt just to make you think Im smarter than you believe.Im not :-)

HARD LIGHT VS SOFT LIGHT

To read light,
read shadows.
Quentin DM 07/03/15

The closer, the softer.

The bigger, the softer.

May I introduce you to the scrim light softer

CAN WE TALK MINIATURES

PHOTOGRAPHY PLEASE????

The perfect miniatures painter scrim!

Quick words about reflexion

Top

Left

Right

3 CONFIGURATIONS
EXAMPLES

From leskouzes.blogspot.be/

From massivevoodoo.blogspot.be

SHOPPING LIST (<100)

Light

Diffusion

or
or

or

Others

COMPUTER WORK

Well stay
high

RAW or JPEG?

RAW
-

Good for mini pictures

flat but neutral

more flexible

JPEG

Good for holidays pictures

more contrasty and good

looking straight from camera
less flexible in photo
manipulations

Curves

Curves - Colors
R(ed)
G(reen)
B(blue)

vs

C(yan)
M(agenta)
Y(ellow)

Exports
WEB
- Max 1280 px large
- 72 dpi
- Small sharping
PRINT
- Same size as the original picture
- 300 dpi
- No or subtle sharping

What I need to remind

from all of this?