Comments on: Varnished Water Feature http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2005/04/29/369/varnished-water-feature/ War Gaming and Modeling for Pulp, Warhammer, Mordheim and Flames of War Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stu http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2005/04/29/369/varnished-water-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Stu Wed, 18 May 2005 04:37:27 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/index.php/archives/2005/04/29/369/#comment-558 Sold this piece for $17NZ on TradeMe too... Sold this piece for $17NZ on TradeMe too…

]]> By: Stu http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2005/04/29/369/varnished-water-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Stu Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:42:36 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/index.php/archives/2005/04/29/369/#comment-546 Yeah it's funny that a light bulb should make that much of a difference to photography when you consider modern digital cameras are supposed to be able to adjust the white-balance. This wasn't even a very good shot because I just chucked the terrain down on a bit of foam board and lit it with a single overhead table lamp, then the GIMP's 'magic wand' was used to turn the background a flat white. The nice lady at Lighting Plus in Newmarket told me they were 'shadow free light bulbs for drawing' which would have been very impressive :) but alas it will still take multiple light sources to banish shadows for figure shots. I'm very happy with the terrain too considering I threw it together in two evenings just to try painting some water. The water feature itself is a little too linear to be very convincing though. Yeah it’s funny that a light bulb should make that much of a difference to photography when you consider modern digital cameras are supposed to be able to adjust the white-balance. This wasn’t even a very good shot because I just chucked the terrain down on a bit of foam board and lit it with a single overhead table lamp, then the GIMP’s ‘magic wand’ was used to turn the background a flat white.

The nice lady at Lighting Plus in Newmarket told me they were ‘shadow free light bulbs for drawing’ which would have been very impressive :) but alas it will still take multiple light sources to banish shadows for figure shots.

I’m very happy with the terrain too considering I threw it together in two evenings just to try painting some water. The water feature itself is a little too linear to be very convincing though.

]]> By: Ben http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2005/04/29/369/varnished-water-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Ben Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:55:14 +0000 http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/index.php/archives/2005/04/29/369/#comment-545 Jesus man, that daylight bulb sure does the trick eh? Looks damned professional. Was that shot on white paper, or did you photoshop out the background? Very nice in either case. Oh, and the water feature looks good too ;) Jesus man, that daylight bulb sure does the trick eh? Looks damned professional. Was that shot on white paper, or did you photoshop out the background? Very nice in either case.

Oh, and the water feature looks good too ;)

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