mine is same case with you.... uneven temp bulbs make it yellowish on 1 side....

Erm... that pic I was using an incandescent light bulb which was the really yellow one before I got another work lamp where I attached a 4000K bulb to it ^^

From the pic I posted, the yellow tone is really obvious there.

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Added on June 18, 2008, 11:34 pmHave yet to take a few pictures with my new bulbs to test out as I am too busy

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It works this way, the thicker layer the diffuse the more less light will hit the figure and the further the light also less light will hit the figure, I found it best to use 1 layer and and use a box so that the light doesn't leak out.

both the one i am using is 6500k, daylight lamp is the best but I can't find the exact color temp at shops here, i think it's below 6000k. to get perfect white bg you need to over by at least +1 EV, but this doesn't mean you'll get a perfectly balance white though, this is due to our camera always meter at 18% grey, so if it's white and you shoot without adjusting EV u get grey instead. Samething with black. What you can do is to pull the top light further from the bg, this will increase the light spread making the area that's in you frame more balance white, or get another a third lamp to light the bg.

grain appear when under expose and you try to adjust it back to the correct exposure, but usually not very visible unless you are using high ISO or the photo underexpose a lot.

both pic is slightly underexpose actually, the second have a whiter bg probably due to the light hitting that part of the bg more. The hair looks bright probably because the light is not soft enough.
for the first shot, more light is needed to light up her face, so you can tilt a white cardboard infront of her face to bounce the top light back to her.
for the second shot you should place the light to the front left of the figure.
the color is off is due to white balance, it happens even to me haha, you usually can adjust it back in photoshop

btw light placement and the amount of light u use is not fix, so play around with it, experiment until you are satisfied witht he result

Ok... Will try things out. Thx for the tip valho =)

great tips

btw what ISO you recommend using? I tried to use the lowest possible but it seems to catch less details

the lower the better u get sharper images
if catch less details...too low light maybe?

Here's some shots I made

with the settings

WB : Daylight
Iso : 80-100
Micro Mode
7M
EV +1


how did it turned out?


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@wolf
Quite OK lah

feels a lil dark on the left, did u put a reflector there?

I forgot... ok here is another one...


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her skin colour looks pale...

damn, i wan a new camera, my old digicam spoiled d...got my alter FATE from PA yesterday~~~
cant take pic, no camera

the box super big, juz nearly fit into the PA box only, abit dented d...haizz...anyway, very satisfied with the figure..

parcel arrived on 9June at Pos Besar, 18June only deliver to me...=.="

quite ok, need a reflector on the opposite side to soften shadow. Hmmm if you camera have vivid color mode then use it, might look nicer. Figure color need to pop a bit in the photo, it'll look nicer . Even Pns also can get photo like below, shot using my Ixus 850IS last time before i got my DSLR, decide to post Alter Fate photo since sai mention her

nice close-up shot you got there,

Ok here is another with the vivid settings, I think it turned out a little bit better, I still can't get the background to have even lighting, will have some dark
areas in the picture

& Should I add more the contrast or just let it stay as it is?

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now this one looks good, but hmm slight blurry though, not using tripod and timer?
I think the color is good with this new shot. Its quite hard to get an even white background unless you use extra light to shine at the bg.

nice~~
tats the fate tat poisoned me...XD

Alright, Second take to adjust the sharpness.

This time I used tripod + Timer + 2 reflectors to spread out the lights




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this one looks ok, maybe just soften the light a bit, otherwise its a nice shot

Alter Yagami Hayate up for PO, for a whoooping 9310yen



and look what she comes with

wuahhh nice........., cost almost 100USD$ omg.....


how they made the magic book stay in mid-air..... magic?

My one worst, turn out bought wrong lamp... ORANGISH!!..

Please scold. TQ




This one edited with the temperature option..