Miniatures close-ups

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Trevor

Brushlicker and Freak!
@RcNiles209

We are becoming increasingly sure that Sebastian has sold his soul to get uber painting skills... ;)

Seriously these close ups are very useful. Particularly in the case of NMM, in many cases you can see what are quite abrupt changes in colour (intentionally of course), it is these that (when viewed from further away than a gnats whisker), create the illusion of metallic reflection.
 
Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
Hey! :) Thanks for the comments

About the camera and the picture I submitted. First it is actually a reduced image... the original is 3456x2304 while this one is 2419x1613. The picture was not taken by me.. it was a friend who used two combine lenses (one tele and one wide-angle) to gain a super close-up mode. I can\'t find a tutorial right now.. but it should be doable for anyone with a digital slr and several lenses. :)

My own camera is a sony cybershot P100 so it\'s not able to do so good close-ups.. I don\'t even have a super-macro mode.

Maybe these are more helpful? These are done with my camera. Sorry about the specks of dust... and the blob besides Gandalf head was a speck of dust on my ccd.. but it\'s gone now somehow :)

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EDIT: DANG! Forgot to do levelling on them.. ah maybe later. These are pretty much straight from my camera except some sharpening.
 
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Logan

New member
Guys, now THIS is a close-up

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Done about six years and taken when I was messing about trying to figure out the macro on my (then) new camera

Hope I didn\'t scare any small children.
 
Wren

Wren

Member
That is a pretty in your face, I\'m gonna git you picture, but I think for me it\'s the unearthly stare of freakishly large Celeborn that\'s the dream haunter...
 
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Herb the bitter

New member
I\'ll do the best I can here, not sure how these\'ll look as I think I\'m topping out my Sony camera. Here are a couple I\'ve been too lazy to put in my gallery yet:

firbolg-resized.jpg


This is sized for CMON:

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Here are some closeups:

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and

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laurence

laurence

Brushlover
Sublime painting

Hi Herb the Bitter, Great pics mate. I must say that the dwarfs sword is totally mesmerizing. Very cool painting!

Thanks,
Chris
 
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Herb the bitter

New member
Originally posted by laurence
Hi Herb the Bitter, Great pics mate. I must say that the dwarfs sword is totally mesmerizing. Very cool painting!

Thanks,
Chris
Click to expand...


The top picture is an old Ral Partha Firbolg(a giant race of some sort). I picked it up for a buck at my local store\'s swap fair. I think it\'s slightly taller than an space marine for reference.
 
Wren

Wren

Member
Wow, the sword on the firblog is so smooth and shiny looking even at that size, impressive!
 
automaton

automaton

New member
wow, that gandalf is fantastic avelorn, I love it - the photos are great! Really excellent work!!

and herb the bitter, your stuff is excellent too, great smoothness even in the close-up!
 
khavor

khavor

Member
Cool, I remember those old Ral Partha giants. I especially like the Firebolg\'s belt. The green oxidation is perfect. The wolfen is gorgeous too. I can\'t believe the transition from gray to black on his muzzle is still indistinguishable in the extreme close-up.
 
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Herb the bitter

New member
Thanks for the kind words.

I\'ve come so far, but looking at other people\'s stuff, I can see I still have so far to go(luckily this site is a wellspring of inspiration.):)
 
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TAB Studio

New member
Here is fire after alfonsos help in tone but before dullcoat, I gave her to the owner and I have no finished pictures but you get the idea :)

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Edit to protect the innocent
 
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Jericho

Consummate Brushlicker
You asked for it!

Photos of my Warrior Priest, all I did was a quick levels adjustment and cropping of the raw images from my 8.1 megapixel camera. The first shot was taken from closer to the mini, and depth of field suffered slightly as a result. It\'s way more obvious at this scale than when it\'s shrunk!

extremecloseuppriest1.jpg

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Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
Yep! Great work... both sharp and wellblended! Nice camera as well... I more and more feel that I need a new one :)
 
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