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You don't need any fancy or expensive equipment to take some great looking photos of your Gunpla.

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how I take photos of my kits using a couple of cheap, widely available items.

This is my photo space, setup on a spare desk. The items I use to shoot my models are; white and black paper, a desk lamp, and a camera. I'm going to explain each element of the photo space.

Black Paper:

The black paper is my background, you want to use a neutral background when you're photographing your kits. Generally if you kit has a lot of bright colors like the Raiser here, you want to use a dark background. Conversely, if you have a dark kit you should use a light background, like a light grey or white.

White Paper:

I'm using the white paper to reflect light from the lamp back onto the model, it helps soften the shadows and provides a degree of back lighting with out needing a second light source.

Lamp:

Any lamp will do if you're willing to color balance your photos after the fact, using iphoto, or photoshop. If you can't or won't color balance try to get a 'natural light' bulb for you lamp.

Camera:

Any camera that takes decent photos from 10-15 inches away will work. For this tutorial all photos were taken using an iphone. Normally I use a DSRL.

Mossimo Setup by Chris New

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setup for this

Ringflash from about 9 feet overhead. :D I had to use a mirror to see the screen to tell where to make adjustments after each test shot.

Setup by Hendrik le Roux

Setup by mcsherryp

New PC Setup by Asad_A203

Relatively new PC setup, same guts (CPU+Mobo+Soundcard) from 2009:

Case: Fractal Define XL R2

CPU: i7 920 @ 3.8 Ghz with Noctua NH12 CPU Cooler

Mobo: Gigabyte EX58 DS4

GPU: 2*XFX R9 290 4GB Crossfire (1 Ghz OC)

RAM: 6*2GB G-Skill 1600Mhz Triple Channel DDR3

PSU: 1000W Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold

Soundcard: Auzentech X-Fi Forte

Harddrives:

Intel 330 180GB SSD SATA 3

WD Caviar Black 7200RPM 1TB

Hitachi Desktstar 7200RPM 1TB

WD Caviar Green 2TB

Seagate Barracuda (pulled from an external HDD bay) 3TB

setup for retard. by .. Lim

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Setup for this

Funny setup by Brigantino

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a funny way to make macros without having a dedicated macro tripod :-)

My girlfriend made that pic, i was using 70-200mm + extension tubes

i used this setup to make this pic:

www.flickr.com/photos/brigantino/4022271344/in/photostream/

178_365_setup by Ainsley Joseph

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setup for this shot.

Setup by IGFestUK

This photo was taken at Insomnia Scotland

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Photo by David Portass Photography

Day 71 - Lighting Setup Diagram by Aaron™

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Resulting shot here.

Note: This is definitely not to scale.

Strobist:

Natural light from the room (at frame right) bounced off a silver reflector to get it through the doorway.

Use this to share your lighting setup or to document your setup for future reference. Email me at kevin@kertzdesign for comments and/or suggestions. Not for commercial use.

Setup by sNeak[y]

Yes thats jericho on the screen above my main screen.

water setup shot by Jeff T

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Setup shot for my Strobist Boot Camp Water submission. Mouse over for notes.

setup by neppanen

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Setup by Joel Höglund

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SETUP KCW by T a l.

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VulcanEBF25-06-Setup by Jim Hoffman

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Setup on the tripod with the spare belt and the carry strap. Oh, also with two of the eight batteries i bought for it.

Setup by henri_ilanen

This is the setup (nice isn't it ;) )

for the "Menu please?" shot.

Setup by IGFestUK

This photo was taken at Insomnia61 #i61.

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Setup shot by Tom Magliery

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Not much to my Macro Mondays "set up" this week except for smooshing around some parsley with a pair of tweezers.

Sound trigger - set by Scott Dickson

Close up of sound trigger - set prior to making contact with mic.

Built out of some metal pieces from a Vex robotics kit we own. Also, used my favorite -- pvc pipe !

Mic is in a piece of pvc pipe and a metal flange is in contact with the pickup. When the striker hits the flange, it triggers the mic. I sound-proofed the mic with some paper towels to cut down ambient noise and it works very well.

By putting the striker on a radiius, I can vary the flange position and change the delay.

Setup by IGFestUK

This photo was taken at insomnia59

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setup_3_flash by Mark Palmer

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set-up shot for screwdriver and country photo images. Is this getting near an ideal set-up?

See notes.

Studio Setup by Jay Williams

This is a shot of the studio "rig" that I setup for the my latest pics. (such as this one)

Setup by IGFestUK

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Setup by Mr. Bell

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This is the setup for the photo: Floating Raft in the Fog. Basically its a box made out of some scrap wood a pane of glass and saran wrap filled with fog from a standard little Halloween fog machine

Float Raft in the Fog:

www.flickr.com/photos/mrbell/7892225272/in/photostream/

Specimen Imaging Setup by Laurence Livermore

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The "large" specimen imaging setup at MNHN, Paris. They also had another setup with a Canon MP-E 65mm for smaller specimens.

This was the first time I had used the newish Nikon 105mm VR lens as I use a Sigma 105mm on my camera.

The lighting was really good. All I noted was the make (Kaiser) but it allowed me to take really nice photos at f/22, usually requiring less than 4 photos to make a composite dorsal shot of a coreid.

Setup for "Drunkenness" by Alucardo

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Setup for this.

DSC_0230 by Drew Austin

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Setup

Setup by IGFestUK

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254_365_setup by Ainsley Joseph

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setup for this shot.

Setup by James Robichaux

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Setup by IGFestUK

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230_365_setup by Ainsley Joseph

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setup for Day 230/365

Macro setup by Ville Mäkinen

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Handheld macro setup

EOS 550D with aftermarket batterygrip with built in intervalometer

EF 100mm f2.8 USM Macro

Cheap aluminium tripod ring with C-shaped flash bracket (normally have the C-shaped bracket on the other side of the lens to get more space for fingers for manual focusing.

TTL cord with Nissing DI866 Mk II + O-Flash ring flash adapter

Normally I have the rubberbands stretched over back of the flash unit to the front end of O-flash to make O-flash rest againts the lens hood to minimize movement and reduce strain on the tilting & swiveling flash head.

Due to the crop sensor and narrow FOV of the lens, no vignette is visible on the pictures due to rather obstructive O-flash placement. Without lens hood I could use the O-flash adapter straight from the camera, but it does block the manual focusing ring quite effectively then.

Yes, its a bit heavy. But still very mobile package and gets the job done!

Setup by IGFestUK

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SETUP by Mike Gilbert

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Setup by IGFestUK

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Setup by IGFestUK

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Setup by IGFestUK

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Setup by IGFestUK

This photo was taken at insomnia59

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Setup by IGFestUK

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Smoke Setup Shot by Andy

This is the setup shot for my recent smoke shots. I fear I lied to you all .... the snoots were made from dog food and dish washer tablet boxes, not cereal boxes as previously claimed ;-)!

I'll tag what's there.

Resulting shots:

Here and here

Setup Shot by Gregory Roberts

This is the setup for this shot

Cross Section Setup by Samer Farha

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This is the setup for the cross section pictures of horned melon. It's a $15 diploma frame, which a friend suggested when I asked where I could go to buy some glass. I sandwiched the slice between the two bits of glass and then held it all in place using the clamps. Sunpak 383 set at 1/16th power, reflecting off the white foam board.

See the whole set here.

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