Astorath WIP, NMM/blending help

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HorusLupercal

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OK, really looking for a little help here. Here's the completed model. I'm really want to improve out of the 7-7.5 range of quality that I seem to be stuck in. Where am I needing to improve to accomplish this? Is it possible that it's just a lack of photography skill or is there something glaringly obvious I'm missing?

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Willdorling

Willdorling

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Heya, all looks good but the images do not allow you to see the best of the work.....something with the lighting I think? Your NMM looks good as far as I can tell. I think the trick is he light spots and you seem to got that down. Might benefit from a dark backgrouns and some extra lighting to brighten things up.

Most important thing is if YOU think it's better than your last mini. Votes are nice gratification but don't feel the score is accurate. Some great minis end up as an 8, other technically worse ones a 9. Really I think it depends what the first 5 or 6 voters give as most people will go either one number either side......to get 8.5 you need 9's and 8's and so forth. Paint happy etc.

Looks nice to me!! 8 out of 10.
 
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HorusLupercal

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Here's a picture of my lighting set up. Maybe I just need to read some photography tutorials.

Basically it's 2 Ott Lights and a armature desk lamp for the directional lighting with the mini sitting on a rotary table.



I'm definitely happy with the way the model turned out and am already on to the next major project. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't blinding myself to something obvious.

I appreciate the comments.
 
Willdorling

Willdorling

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Seems like you have a reasonable amount of light. The bulbs might be a bit 'cold' but I cannot tell from this piccie. What camera do you use? Are you using a tripod?

I use a manual setting on my SLR and use the timer setting. That minimizes my inteference in the image and then i just set the exposure length to capture the right amount of light. I use GIMP for editing but in most cases this is just to resize the image. Backgrounds help define the mini. maybe try a few back drops.....massive voodoo have some you can download of different colour.

Cheers
Will
 
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HorusLupercal

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I have a cannon powershot that I set up on a tripod. I usually use the macro setting, but for some reason it seemed like the servos were acting a little odd and not focusing. So I ended up using manual mode, which the zoom was not working with focus so I ended up with the camera 4" from the model..

I'll try a few shot with a black background and see what happens. Thanks.
 
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GreenOne

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Two things on the nmm.
The pure white in highlights has to be solid and visible at the top of every reflections for it to really look like metal.
Also I think the shadows switch to black much to soon and there is not enough brownish midtones; gradient need to progress much more gradually in the shades areas than light ones.

Besides that, as been told, good start.
 
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