The Little World

Photographic shot, that is.

The acquisition of a new Fujifilm camera with a touch screen has led to adoption of a new procedure for scale model photography. I can now doe focus-stacked images much more easily.

It’s not my invention – it’s been going on for ages -but now it is very simple for tabletop work. John France and I have proved the concept for small aircraft, large planes, and even battleships.

We set our cameras similarly – mine’s a Fujifilm X-T310 II while he uses a Nikon D850. We frame the shot as we want it and then put on a 2-second self timer. Shutter speed is auto and aperture about f:11.

Then we go round the image displayed on the rear LCD screen, touching the points we want in focus. I use the nose. wingtips, canopy, and tail to get 5 shots.

Put into Photoshop CC2019 or the Helicon program, these 5 shots blend with no hazy flaws. Once the image is flattened it can be run through a Camera Raw filter and made to look perfect. You turn this out as a jpeg and go back to taking more. The process takes longer to write up than it does to complete in the studio.