Photoshoot

I've been experimenting with my photography setup, using my new terrain boards and some backdrops I've painted. These are the first results, I'm quite excited with how they've turned out!

The plan will be to get some photos like these from every game I play. Of course in-game photos are going to be a bit more rushed, but perhaps I can recreate the best ones afterwards whilst the terrain is still on the table. I've found that however many photos you take, you're never going to capture everything - every unit on the table, every exciting part of the battle, all of your personal favourite miniatures in shot. But perhaps from 20 in-game photos you'll accidentally create two or three gems. And likewise with carefully posed photos like this, you're never going to get every figure perfectly in focus for all to see. It's all about the overall visual impact of the scene, rather than getting each carefully converted and painted figure into the frame.

I'm made a gallery page for this blog, accessible from the menu up above. I'll put all my best photos there going forward, both in-game shots and from photoshoots like this. Not the photos of new units as they are showcased, but rather compositions like these that hopefully each tell a little story.