that's the danger in using styrofoam, since styrofoam is quite hard, it can dent the figure box inside as well if heavy boxes are put on top of it. I prefer the way HS put paper instead.

Hmmm from what I can see the photo lack sharpness and seems a tad noisy. what cam u using btw. you can try some of the steps below that I use when shooting figures.
to shoot something with white bg, try to increase your exposure compensation around 2/3. Also always set your camera to macro mode, shoot in manual mode with custom white balance. Also use timer when shooting, and the lowest ISO you can use.

umm strong light should be the main light, while the weaker light as top light, so your light should switch position. You can soften the light a bit by DIY a diffuser, tracing paper and box works great. +1 exposure should be enough, but it's strange that the photo lack sharpness, hmm, well try out the steps i given on the previous post and here and see how it goes. takes some closeup pic too

pasting it doesnt help u spread the light enough, the use of diffuser it both to soften and spread the light

just cut a box till u are left with the four sides with a square hole in the middle, cover one side of the hole with tracing paper.

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

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

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.

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

haha yeah too warm, didn't try the light before buying ah

hmm i thought I mention that Ikea only sell warm light haha , anyway Parkson should have the light you guys are looking for, I got mine there.

Wolf516~the books is probably hollow so should be quite light

raptor_cZn~she's a 1/7 so since Alter 1/8 is already 6-7k yen, 9k yen for a 1/7 from Alter is not suprising. I think if Alter 1/8 Fate were release now instead of a few years back it'll probably cost about the same price haha.

very very tempted to get her, but there's no news whether Alter will release Nanoha or Fate though

Yeah and at 29cm, yup the box gonna be quite big. Shipping gonna be killer i think., i estimate the price probably more than RM350

Sadly yes, Alter haven't announce adult version of Fate and Nanoha, still praying they'll release them though

May 08 is the second reissue, there was a reissue in 2007, around April, that's when I got mine

hmm that's something new, so got cheaper price haha
btw Alter is not under Good Smile Company anymore

shoot more and experiment

hahah i found out there might be a second series after I go my Rize. *sigh* to go through the process of camping at HS and preordering again

congrats on getting your first shuraki girl, there are well worth it , now time to take some photos

might buy if I have the budget and space for it at the time haha

i went for brownish textured bg for her to match her base, you can always go for some chinese theme though,
emm she's the hardest to cast off for all the shuraki girls, so good luck

fortunately I got nothing else in Oct, so probably can get Hayate

still haven't decided, it's either PA, XL or TFM, definitely not HS, shipping gonna be killer

have to wait, they don't put up PO as fast as Japanese site

it always selefon tape only, they don't have any seal for the figure box one, even those from Japan also same