This one is good

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Ahar, that does look nice Jay, i sent another besides that one thats better quality (check your email).

Looks the ideal way to show a Ledy front and back inside one "card frame", nice touch

Cheers Rob I'm playing about with ideas at the moment and trying to work out how far I can push the different techniques in Photshop 4.

Do you have a blank name plate buddy on its own?

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After with raw white background



After with mapped background



After with race track effect

2nd last looks best ! IMO anyway

"2nd last looks best " if you meant the mapped background- I agree. Add the racetrack and that's a winner?

Blank nameplate sent Jay, if you need cardfronts + backs to make something more unique but scaled down give me a shout

I see some really great pictures in this forumn, do you use light tents/ boxes to show your figures so well?

Do you have to use specialist light bulbs with them so they look so good, and are they expensive?

Cheers,

Rob (A person sick of shadows)

I just use a sheet of white A4 and my daughters 12MP Camera, daylight and also lightbulb light at times too

Shawn and Stu both have lightbox set ups so im sure they will chime in regarding there methods.

A lot of the site pictures especially in the reference section have been editing using advance software like Photoshop CS4 and Paint Pro etc there are a lot of great before and after editing examples in there to view the results that can be achieved.


Jay

Just had a look on amazon and the light box setup is pretty cheap? I was expecting silly money ....I might pick one up but it will hardly get any use

chazgreentooth wrote:

Just had a look on amazon and the light box setup is pretty cheap? I was expecting silly money ....I might pick one up but it will hardly get any use

I got one from Amazon Chaz and it was well worth the money mate. It came with two lights and a tripod.

It folds up really well in a carry case.

I'll try and find the link mate.

How much???

about £30.

But I know Shawn got the same one even cheaper over in the US.

I'm on my iPod, when on the computer I'll find the link

Thanks very much for your advice, I've decided to try out a light box, I shall let you know the results.

Funnily enough someone else has started a thread on RS about this after my post.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=4052178&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1#Post4052519#4052178

This was the one and it comes in different sizes...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ex-Pro-Product-Photo-Soft-studio/dp/B001A3Z7OK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1263075157&sr=8-3

Yeah, thats one of the ones I was looking at.

Just ordered one

A quick test ...




The good news is i am impressed, the bad news is 1 bulb only lasted 5 minutes before blowing, these do get hot but ive had lots of these type bulbs blow in the home, theyre just not made like they used to but are cheap enought to buy.

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You should get a better replacement, the ones they send are paploo. Wicked picture by the way mate.

Haha yeh ill look for a better type bulb i think, the lamps themselves are pretty neat with the pop out feet.

The camera by the way is a Fujifilm 12.2MP Camera, this was in its macro setting.

Im still usin' my old Cannon. Need to upgrade soon.

Slightly on topic topic, but thought I'd throw this one in here.

How do people take pics of their collection? Was playing around this weekend with taking some pics and wasn't 100% happy with different lighting/shadows etc.

Anyone have/build/use a lightbox, or have any other suggestions for taking good close up details pics? Thinking of both loose and carded figures here.
EDIT by James! I've merged topics

thanks james - didn't even see this 4 page thread before now

Will read through it in detail, but on first glance looks like my initial questions have been answered