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Introduction
Photographing small objects is one of the toughest tasks in photography.
For long time in the past, this task
can only be mastered by professionals,
using expensive camera and lenses. This type of photography requires a
special lens, commonly called "macro-lens", which can be focused very close to the
object.
But today, everything change, the massive advances in digital photography
and computer software,
causing macro-photography become accessible
by almost anybody. Even a small compact digital camera may already have a macro-capable
lens.
Therefore any modeller will now be able to take a good picture, without
the need to invest in expensive
photography gadgets. But, certain skill and knowledge will still be required to create a good picture, that 's the reason why I wrote
this guide.
This guide was written for
common people with basic knowledge on photography, it is not intended
for professional photographers. Therefore all of the articles will focus
on the utilisation of digital camera, mainly compact-camera,
and simple instead of state-of-the-art equipment. Specialised
equipment, such as studio flash, view-camera,
bellows, etc., will not
be covered in this guide. But again, a basic understanding of photography
should be
attained prior of reading this guide, at least, one should understand
what is 'aperture', 'shutter-speed', and 'ISO rating'. I will not touch on this basic subject.
Last but not least, this guide
will not teach you on how to use your camera, nor that it will teach you
how to
build a good scale-model, but it will give you the idea on the
techniques in photographing miniature models
and other aspect surrounding the miniature model photography.
Now let's take better pictures
of your models. Read on...
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