[Erik Mona]

I use a lightbox I got on Amazon and turn the light all the way up. This tends to white out the background. I shoot photos on my iPhone X. I then mess with the exposure filter a bit, as the photos always come out darker than the figures look in real life. This looks as close to the actual paint job as I can get.

When I had worse light options I tended to mess around with filters a bit more, but with good lighting I don't have to as much. The lightbox also tends to result in some weird shadows, so I also bathe the figure with light from my Ott Light crafting lamp from the front, so he's getting it from all sides.

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Do you have velum or white paper on top of the light, or just set the figure right it?

Thanks for the information. I've never been happy with my photos, so this is another approach to try.

[Erik Mona]

I got the light box from Amazon (a gift, so I don't know the brand name). It comes with a sort of vinyl collapsable five-sided cube. It also comes with several cloth (ok, sort of between cloth and paper towel texture) sheets that you sort of drape from the back of the box. This gives a rounded-off appearance to the bottom back, so you don't have harsh lines. By the time you crank up the lights and sometimes mess with filters a little bit, it more or less fades completely into the background. I didn't get the light setting right for my Claymore photos (another recent thread I dropped here), and you can probably see some of the "cloth" texture under his feet.

[Erik Mona]

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Originally Posted by SlicesCustoms

Solid across-the-board bro paint looks even, shadowing looks good. my favorite part about this is how you did an aged dry bone on his belt buckle

Thanks! I'm sure you know this better than most, but there's a point where you fall so deep into detailing one specific part that you stop being mad about it and just sort of fall into it. I lived on that belt buckle for the better part of an afternoon, and it turned out to be just the therapy I needed.

Glad you appreciate the Georgia O'Keefe sort of vibe I was going for there.

[SlicesCustoms]

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Originally Posted by Erik Mona

Thanks! I'm sure you know this better than most, but there's a point where you fall so deep into detailing one specific part that you stop being mad about it and just sort of fall into it. I lived on that belt buckle for the better part of an afternoon, and it turned out to be just the therapy I needed.

Glad you appreciate the Georgia O'Keefe sort of vibe I was going for there.

100% know that feeling. Therapeutic when you?re in it, rewarding after it?s finished.