Quote from: Sandinista on 18 July 2014, 01:10:47 PM
Try resting them on a sheet of white paper to photo

Will do when I get home from work.  I photographed them late last night and was getting too much glare against a white background under the electric lights.  I'll take a picture while the sun's still up.   

A white background can be very hard to photograph against - the camera will see all the white and cut down the exposure time, leaving the figures as dark blobs.

Try going with a medium coloured background - a green cutting mat works pretty well.

They look good in the second photo but it's hard to tell . Look forward to some 'better' pics soon, fingers crossed. But then I'm no David Bailey so can't criticise others attempts .

Fingers crossed

Basically, I'm using a telephone to do all this (I don't have a computer at home)

Much better - can see them! I tend to use the phone and it's not great...

Definitely clearer !
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Plasticoutsider on 18 July 2014, 09:44:50 PM
Basically, I'm using a telephone to do all this

Do you use a camera to call your friends? 

Quote from: Hertsblue on 20 July 2014, 12:36:36 PM
Do you use a camera to call your friends? 

Friends?  I play with toy soldiers.  And spend summer Sunday afternoons indoors painting 1 cm high figures.

 
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Plasticoutsider on 20 July 2014, 05:47:26 PM
Friends?  I play with toy soldiers.  And spend summer Sunday afternoons indoors painting 1 cm high figures.

Yes, my relations often remark on my "prison pallor".

So, 5 months after exposing the inside of my head, I felt like my concentration levels might extend to some musketeers from Denzil Holles' regiment at Edgehill.

Looking good, that man!
Cheers - Phil

Welcome back.
Nice work.

That's a good start. Just the other 10 infantry regiments and 'x' amount of cavalry and aunty hilary and you can call it a day.