It
surprises me that with the advent of digital cameras people don't experiment
more when they are photographing their models. Switching to black and white is
one of the easiest options - as I've shown here with the first four pics showing
Dragon's US Marines and Japanese Infantry. I bought them all together as one
boxed set as a tie-in with the Windtalkers (execrable) movie. There was one
extra marine in the box: a resin casting in fatigues but minus any other
equipment and looking nothing like Nicholas Cage (or a Navaho Indian). My
diorama was inspired more by Clint Eastwood's excellent Iwo Jima films: all
bare, rugged rock and no (difficult to model) vegetation.
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Photo 5 shows the
beginnings of my experiments with the photo edit feature on Windows 2000 (which
I thought was excellent - much better and easier to use than that on Windows
XP). This pic is monochromed and posterized. Other pics went through pretty much
the same process though allowing some color into the posterization. Pics 6-7 are
of Dragon's Russian Cossacks; pic 8 is of a pair of Dragon's French Foreign
Legionnaires; pic 9 of the same company's Russian Tank Riders; and pic 10
of Trumpeter's 1/35 AS9 and its mighty gun.
I have yet to
try PhotoShop but I'm sure there are similar features on that to indulge
in. You don't have to limit yourself to setting models against dodgy (all
too often unconvincing) backdrops . . .
Greg Kerry
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