Darkest Heresy

I’ve been trying for a while to find a cheap camera to take pictures of my models with so that I could show them off here. Well, I’ve still not found a cheap camera… But I did pick up an iPhone 3GS, which may serve for now.

So I looked through my recently completed models (there are many that near completeness, few that seem to achieve it) and selected the Techmarine from the Thunderfire Cannon. I’m pretty happy with the model itself and it’s recent, so it seemed like a good choice. The next step was finding a decent way to take pictured without a lightbox, tripod, etc. Suffice to say it involved two rule books, a file, a cup of tea, my desk lamp and a sheet of paper. And some awkwardness trying to hold more things than I have hands for.

The result is these two pictures. The first is unedited apart from some slight colour correction to get the colours closer to the actual model, at least on my screen. The second was run through TiltShift Generator whilst I was playing around, and is mostly getting posted because I like the effect.

Techmarine - Unedited version

Techmarine - Tiltshifted version

So, I’m wondering if anyone has any preference on the images? Any tips as to getting a better one? I’m thinking a tripod and something like the clarifi case with the macro lens might get a sharper image. I’ve considered a lightbox, but the iPhone seems to have issues getting a decent colour balance with a bright white background.

With any luck I’ll get some kind of semi permanant photo area set up, and maybe I’ll manage to more model pics up. Maybe it’ll even convince me to actually finish my models!

-J