Experimenting with my light box and a camera

You know I said you wouldn't have to put up with any pictures of completed models for a bit... Well, for various reasons I had access to a newer, better digital camera the other day and thought I'd see what it could do in my light box. It was actually what I went on to use for my Genestelaer Hybrid shots to try and make them look a little bit better than the digital camera I usually use. I think the pictures are better but at this stage I was still fidning my feet. I'm a point and shoot guy so this is it with automatic settings.

Perhaps the white balance needs adjusting as the background is still a little grey

But it's not too bad.

Compare that to what comes out of Camera360 on my phone. Now granted I'm doing a fair bit 'post-production' to get that whiteout behind which is in turn brightening the model as a whole. Possibly if there was a middle ground between the two images...

So I tried my Venomthrope in the box

I'm sure I tried to adjust the colours in Picasa [I don't have Photoshop at home] but it's still a bit dull in the background.

Once again Camera360 brings out the vibrancy.

I think I actually prefer this, it speaks to my high contract, saturated appeal.

Epic Reaver Titan, with the best potential wound scoring mechanism not yet re-discovered by GW to sell new bases

I notice that it's also picking up a little blur/shake on it as well.

Whereas Camera360 manages to be pin sharp which seems a little surprising.

The ProtoTervigon came out OK.

But the real advantage to the Sony is it's zoom capability

Allowing me to get really up-close and personal in all the gory details.

These are definitely better picture than my Panasonic camera, although I should have taken some on the Red Planet background. Anyway, it was worth a play around and sharing the pcitures with you all. Obviously it convinced me enough to photograph the Genestealer Cult with it, it's still a learning experience but they're much improved I think, maybe I can finally get something on the GW website?

'nids part 223 - Genestealer Hybrid Neophytes - Moar shots

The last of my endless parade of finished Genestealer Cultists. I'm actually looking forward to when I can display them alongside the Brood Coven, Aberrants and my original Cultist conversions.

Obviously I mentioned a new Armies on Parade board this year. I'm looking at creating a scene of my Deathwatch [again on the list] holding out against a Cult hoard sweeping through a container yard.

But don;t get your hopes up, there's no major new build here and as much as I would like a load of Armorium Containers I'm hoping to make some out of Foamboard.

In the mean time I have my scratchbuilt fences and future containers to make up the defensive area and hopefully my Ferron Fire Firs will be outside the compound from whence the Cult is emerging.

So the bulk of my efforts will be a new 2' x 2' base and potential backdrop. Then any extra containers and trees I can manage, alongside the Deathwatch marines.

Hopefully that'll be sufficient alongside the Cultists and the 31 Genestealers I've never used on my AoP board [not that anyone at the store will be aware, they'll just assume it's reusing the same army again no doubt].

Hope you enjoyed the pics and I look forward to sharing the Cult as a whole eventually. Now I need some Sentinels...

'nids part 222 - Genestealer Hybrid Acolytes - Moar shots

As is my norm now I simultaneously take pictures on my phone alongside the digital camera. The camera is supposed to be the truer representation of the colours, but as I still struggle to get btter pictures out of my set up and the camera quite often it's my phone that's producing the better images. I say better, I mean I like them more, thanks to the various filters and extreme saturation.

I really do love the kilted guys.

And on the white background too. Most of these are just adjusted to make the background as white as possible so there's actually less contrast in the model.

There you have it, just the MOAR pictures of the Neophytes and then you can rest easy about being subjected to all these images :)