Ever since I joined this community, there are so many talented people to make some impressive threads. I believe most of us keep trying to impress and inspire people by sharing the best of our work.
However today I decided to become an annoying person, to post some of my failed pics, with some explanation on why they failed, and how to avoid them.
-Lighting problem-
As a videographer, I do care about lighting, but only in real life. The biggest mistake I did was overlooking the same importance when taking photos of action figures. These might not occur for smartphone camera users because smartphone camera has a much higher tolerance against low light, and most of the time room light alone can already produce great photos. But as a rule of thumb, let the light hit the face from 45° angle to 80°, or otherwise even photoshop is not going to bring back to life
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-Angle problem-
Angle is the same issue I overlooked back then, just like a real person, there are very rare exceptional has a good looking at all angles, thus seeking the best angle before taking a photo is important...especially those joins....the awkward neckline XDD
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-Pose problem-
Last but not least, posing might not get deep down the road for everyone, because a normal, brain-functional collector, would not risk the breaking benjamin to make an extreme pose on their figure. But I have self-destructive behavior, I actually addicted to posing and losing some of my best figure bodies...For my advice, if you want to achieve some big poses, at least get some real person reference or try yourself, if you feel hurt doing some poses, the action figure literally feels the same way, not pain, but break.
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Misc problem....these are just wrong that I cannot explain, but just avoid this silly stuff, you have to be better than me
Alright, that's enough for me to insult myself today.....I hope you have a great day ahead if you survive this far.
However today I decided to become an annoying person, to post some of my failed pics, with some explanation on why they failed, and how to avoid them.
-Lighting problem-
As a videographer, I do care about lighting, but only in real life. The biggest mistake I did was overlooking the same importance when taking photos of action figures. These might not occur for smartphone camera users because smartphone camera has a much higher tolerance against low light, and most of the time room light alone can already produce great photos. But as a rule of thumb, let the light hit the face from 45° angle to 80°, or otherwise even photoshop is not going to bring back to life
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-Angle problem-
Angle is the same issue I overlooked back then, just like a real person, there are very rare exceptional has a good looking at all angles, thus seeking the best angle before taking a photo is important...especially those joins....the awkward neckline XDD
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-Pose problem-
Last but not least, posing might not get deep down the road for everyone, because a normal, brain-functional collector, would not risk the breaking benjamin to make an extreme pose on their figure. But I have self-destructive behavior, I actually addicted to posing and losing some of my best figure bodies...For my advice, if you want to achieve some big poses, at least get some real person reference or try yourself, if you feel hurt doing some poses, the action figure literally feels the same way, not pain, but break.
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Misc problem....these are just wrong that I cannot explain, but just avoid this silly stuff, you have to be better than me
Alright, that's enough for me to insult myself today.....I hope you have a great day ahead if you survive this far.