hi folks and welcome back to the channel and in this video I'll be doing something i haven't done
in the ages and that's playing with toys so this type of photography is something I've never tried
before and basically what happened my stepson Calvin came to me and said um I've been clearing
the room out I've got a big box of figures you often sell things on eBay can you get rid of
them for me both that started me thinking I've never tried toy photography I know it's a massive
thing that a lot of people do there are loads of videos on YouTube and thought I'd have a go as an
absolute beginner first time trying it and see how it got on all you need a couple of action figures
a camera in this instance of course we're using the FZ82 because I've seen other videos where
everybody's using mirrorless or dslr cameras or even a mobile phone I've yet to see anybody
try it with a bridge camera so I thought I'd give that a go as well as that you also will
need a tripod a computer monitor download some backgrounds a pile of books to stand the figure on
and a couple of lights so lightning wise I'm using a ring light these are cheap and cheerful ones I
picked up with the local supermarket you can buy them online and don't not a lot of money
really quite handy little things to have I use mine for vlogging so I'm going to use them
for this project but you could just use an angle poised lamp or a desk lamp
doesn't really matter as long as you can light your subject
that's all you need so I'll get set up and I'll show you how I achieved these shots
so here you can see my very crude setup I've got the figure balanced on a big pile of boxes and
books and things like that as you say it doesn't really matter what you use as long as you can see
on the back of the camera there you eliminate that from the shot and just concentrate on the figure
and the background the background itself was a download from the star wars website
there are a number to choose from it's quite a handy little website to use
the freight users screenshots screen servers and backgrounds for if you're doing a zoom type
meeting so now it's just a case of bringing in some lighting
as and where you want to use it try and keep it off the screen but just illuminating the figure
and it's just trial and error to get the lighting where you want it so that it looks as realistic
as possible so once we're happy with our setup and the camera is focused onto the figure like so it's
just a case of taking a shot now at this point I would say that if I wasn't using the phone for
vlogging I would use the Panasonic app to use as a remote shutter this would give me a better shot
than trying to do it by touching the camera because we're about to get some shake especially
with the cheap tripod that I'm currently using but that's it that's as simple as it gets for
this type of photography once you've taken a shot you're going to obviously edit the image in the
likes of photoshop Lightroom whatever software you use so you can do things like enhance the colours
add some illumination to some of those reds in the image to sort of look as if
those led panels are glowing, soften things put a vignette on it whatever you want to do to try
and make the shot as realistic as possible so there you have it really really straightforward
little project nothing complicated ideal for a rainy day or another look lockdown god forbid
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