Photographing miniatures requires getting the right exposure, sharp focus across the entire miniature, and neutral, soft lighting to accurately represent the miniature without any artistic interpretation. The key aspects of getting proper exposure are understanding aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and how they work together based on the camera's light meter. Soft, diffuse lighting is best to avoid shadows and highlights not intended by the miniature's painter.

1. How to take (great)
photographs of
miniatures

2. FUN FACTI started to learn photography to make great
pictures of my miniatures. Then I became a
better photographer than a miniatures painter.
And I’m finally a professional photographer…
Presentation
quentindemeuter.eu
facebook.com/quentindm.photography
hello@quentindemeuter.eu

3. PHOTO/GRAPHY
« Write with light »

4. GOOD NEWS!
Miniatures painting
= painting light
so you all are photographers…

5. Photographing miniatures is not an art. Painting the miniature is
the art. The photographs should show the miniature the most
« honest » and real as possible without any interpretation.
THE ART OF
NEUTRALITY

6. What makes a miniatures
photograph great?
- Right exposure
- Sharp deep of field
- Global, neutral & soft light
- A great miniature :-)

7. Underexposed Right exposed Overexposed

8. The whole miniature is
in focus
The focus is on the gun,
not interesting
The focus is on the face,
better but not yet there
X X V

9. Shadowandhighlightscreatedbythe
ambientlight,notbythepainter

10. HOW TO WRITE WITH LIGHT?

11. BORING TIME, SPOILER ALERT…

12. THE CAMERA

13. Aperture
ouverture
Shutter speed
vitesse d’obturation
ISO
ISO :)
ex: 2.8
ex: 1/250
ex: 400
TOP VIEW
light

15. LET’S
MAKE IT
FUN : photo exposition
explained by
Mario Bros…

16. Exposition
Aperture
ouverture
Shutter speed
vitesse d’obturation
1 sec
2 sec
3 sec

17. OK BUT
MARIO? for those who didn’t get is,
Mario’s a plumber…

18. SHUTTER SPEED /
VITESSE D’OBTURATION
1/300 sec 1/40 sec 1 sec

19. NO CHANCE TO HAVE MY
MINIATURE MOVING…

20. APERTURE / OUVERTURE

21. APERTURE / OUVERTURE

22. APERTURE / OUVERTURE

23. APERTURE / OUVERTURE

24. ISO

25. ISO NOISE
100 ISO 800 ISO 1600 ISO
SMOOTH GRAIN

26. THERE IS ANY
« RIGHT UNIVERSAL
ISO SETTING » TO
AVOID NOISE. IT
DEPEND ON YOUR
CAMERA

27. « It’s ok I can fix noise on my computer »

28. CHEATER SHEET
NOISE
MOTION BLUR DEEP OF FIELD

29. The right exposure following your camera

30. Right exposure following the cameraRight exposure following your eyes

31. Right exposure following the cameraRight exposure following your eyes

33. LET’S TALK ABOUT
THE FOCAL LENGTH…

35. THE VALUES ARE UNIVERSAL BUT THE CROPPING
DEPEND ON THE SIZE OF YOUR SENSOR
YOUR CAMERA HAS 85% OF CHANCE TO BE IN THIS RANGE

36. LOST?
FUCK IT AND
GRAB A
50MM!

37. BY THE WAY MACRO
LENSES ARE FOR
FLOWERS AND BUGS

38. THE LIGHT

39. Light… we experience it everyday.
When there is any light there is nothing. We observe it since
we are kids but it’s still so hard to understand and master.

40. The law of light…

41. The inverse square law
INTENSITY OF LIGHT IS INVERSELY
PROPORTIONAL TO THE SQUARE OF THE
DISTANCE FROM THE SOURCE OF THE LIGHT

42. The light intensity decreases slower
than the distance between the subject
of the light source
Me to physics
and mathematics

43. WHY DOES IT MATTER?
nope wasn’t just to make you think I’m smarter than you believe.I’m not :-)

44. HARD LIGHT VS SOFT LIGHT
« To read light,
read shadows. »
Quentin DM 07/03/15

45. The closer, the softer.
The bigger, the softer.

47. May I introduce you to the scrim light softer

48. CAN WE TALK MINIATURES
PHOTOGRAPHY PLEASE????

49. +
= The perfect miniatures painter scrim!

50. Quick words about reflexion…

51. Top
Left Right

52. 3 CONFIGURATIONS
EXAMPLES

53. From leskouzes.blogspot.be/

54. From massivevoodoo.blogspot.be

56. SHOPPING LIST (<100€)
Light Diffusion Others
or
or
or

57. COMPUTER WORK

58. We’ll stay
high…

59. RAW or JPEG?
RAW JPEG
- flat but neutral
- more flexible
- more contrasty and good
looking straight from camera
- less flexible in photo
manipulations
Good for mini pictures Good for holidays pictures

60. Curves

61. Curves - Colors
R(ed)
G(reen)
B(blue)
C(yan)
M(agenta)
Y(ellow)
vs

62. Exports
WEB
- Max 1280 px large
- 72 dpi
- Small sharping
PRINT
- Same size as the original picture
- 300 dpi
- No or subtle sharping

63. What I need to remind
from all of this?