Topic: Vesticus' Grand Army of Altdorf and Reikland - Light Wizard

[Vesticus]

Your painting is for sure great! Very smooth and precise.

But, I still think that the whole picture looks blue, rather than just the background. In some cameras the white balance has to be changed manually, try and take a picture of a pure white surface, and if it turns out blue, you'll have to change these settings. I hope this is helpful and that you don't see it as critique, I had this problem myself for a long time with my new camera before a friend told me what was the problem.

I'll have a play with settings next time I shoot some photos. I haven't practiced enough to discover a method that works well every time, it's a bit hit and miss at the moment.

All comments welcome though.

[Your Mother]

The steel on the general looks amazing.

[Vesticus]

For today's model I have finished my Light wizard.

1st time I have tried painting marble and i'm really pleased with how it looks.







Photos are  a little better, still not perfect though.

[mr chumley warner]

that looks top class mate.

Can you photo the model on a white B/G?

Your first two images look blue tinted and the 3rd is blurred , 

sorry , the model looks so good i had to ask for a new pic !

[Vesticus]

No problem, I'll take some more pics tonight.

[Swan-of-War]

Wow, he looks awesome!  The white is so smooth and the pose is menacing.

Painting marble is hard, especially on such a small surface.  Did you finish it with an ink?

[Vesticus]

that looks top class mate.

Can you photo the model on a white B/G?

Your first two images look blue tinted and the 3rd is blurred , 

sorry , the model looks so good i had to ask for a new pic !

Here is a photo against a "white" background. It was taken outside so no bulbs involved.

Looks like I need to read my camera manual switch it to manual for once!

[Spjuth]

Painting is great as always!

Here's some general info on colour balance/white balance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_balance

But yeah, taking a look in the manual sound like the best way. Good luck!

[Albrecht Hexenjaeger]

Fantastic! 

I've been waiting for an afternoon to take a stab at this model myself.

[Delthos]

I hope you don't mind, but I took some liberties and ran an Auto Adjust Colors in the free image editing utility IrfanView. Depending on the colors in the photo, it won't always fix a bad white balance properly, but this looks to have done extremely well in fixing it. It will improve most pictures, but every once in a while it'll actually make a photo worse and you'll need to manually adjust the colors and balance. Here are the results.

[krom1415]

great use of white of that figure, top job.