How to Photograph Miniatures

Good pictures of your work will really help you on your miniature journey. In this video, Bruce breaks down his methods for ensuring good quality images when using a DSLR.
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[@JamesDavies-gk5xe]

Hands down best video on this topic! 🙌

[@andrewbratchell1715]

Agreed!😊

[@clive_maloney]

Agreed. I've worked dozens of videos on this topic. Best explanation I've seen.

[@GitGudPainting]

Thank you for saying so!

[@oainger]

Fantastic - finally the why these settings matter broken down in a way I can understand. Thank you.

[@GitGudPainting]

Glad it helped! That you for commenting!

[@cryocheese]

Bruce, dude, mate, my guy! This is brilliant!!! This is everything I've learned over the years, and in exactly the way I could dream to explain it and show it whenever I get asked and if I had proper time to write it down or even film it. I'll recommend this video literally every time I get asked about miniature photography and share it whenever I can! Thank you so much for your effort and attention to detail with this complex topic! (personally I've found a light source angling *up* from below the mini helps as well, especially when the top down one is powerful)

[@GitGudPainting]

Thank you so much man! I'll definitely have to do a follow-up, both to address the amount of stuff I didn't cover and to add in all the super helpful tips that folks are sharing!

[@ElectronHexagon]

Absolutely Brilliant!

[@GitGudPainting]

Thank you! Hope you find it useful!

[@treydog999]

i would love to see a follow on of this of how to record yourself painting minis.

[@GitGudPainting]

Good idea! I can definitely whip something together on this!

[@NikkiAnnMarie]

Fantastic video, explained very clearly :) Very few go over what each variable actually does and just give vague recommendations, so to get that much info crammed into about 10 minutes and digestible is really well done I think it might be worth some further discussion on backdrops and how to set them up - mainly focusing on getting pure white/black (or close to it) without overexposing the mini/backdrop respectively, and potentially something on focus stacking as well, but those are more advanced topics so I totally understand skipping them

[@GitGudPainting]

Absolutely! There was so much to cover that I wanted to keep it tight, but I'll certainly be covering this in a future video. I've had some good links to free focus stacking tools so I'll probably demo one of those as I don't want people to have to learn Adobe stuff if possible.

[@jimphillips6532]

Amazing thank you

[@GitGudPainting]

Thank you for watching!

[@piotrunogi]

Good explaination. It'realy clear (so reduce the time or increse the exposure.?)

[@GitGudPainting]

When we remove ISO from the equation, we're balancing shutter speed with our aperture. As the aperture opens up (going lower on the f-stop) we need to increase our shutter speed, and vice versa.

[@piotrunogi]

​Euh.. when I write that it "was clear", it was a kind if métaphore.. your explaination was good at the first Time 😅"​ @@GitGudPainting

[@stevehurleydesign]

Super helpful! Curious if you could share the specific lens you’ve used? I have a kit lens that falls within your recommended range but I’ve been wondering also about macro lenses and if they’d work for miniature photography. Cheers

[@GitGudPainting]

Yes of course! I use a Panasonic Lumix G 42.5mm f/1.7

[@mart1n287]

Just one thing to add: a Lumix GH5 is a mirrorless not a DSLR

[@GitGudPainting]

Ha this is a very good point! Think my brain decided to transpose DSLR for Camera

[@lilpain1997]

Not got a DSLR and I don't really think I will buy one for just taking pics of minis seeing as I do not have a following at all so it just makes no real sense to get one. That said this info was very valuable overall and can be applied to phones as well.

[@GitGudPainting]

I get it! It's not for everyone and it depends entirely what you want out of the hobby!

[@lilpain1997]

@GitGudPainting I would love to get a following and make it into something, but that's brutal to do.

[@BossFightCoaching]

Would you mind letting us know where you got the LED lights at the front?

[@GitGudPainting]

Sure! It's a VIJIM VL120 RGB Video Light from Amazon. I think you can pretty much search LED Video Light and get something good these days!

[@BossFightCoaching]

@@GitGudPainting amazing, thank you :)

[@radiationcow]

I don't have a DSLR, but I'll try this on my old point and shoot. Anything has to be better than my phone pics, right?

[@GitGudPainting]

It will be! The phone is such a nightmare for post processing, even a point and shoot will have a big enough sensor to be beneficial