Pair of Fallschirmjagers (1 Viewer)

Great photo Duke. The FJ are very realistic. I like the Honor Bound Panther A in the background.
 
Great photo Duke. The FJ are very realistic. I like the Honor Bound Panther A in the background.

Thanks. Another photo from a little higher angle and a little more saturation.


 
Duke; A smaller aperture on the camer lens will give you greater depth of field and bring the Panther and Building into sharp focus. Another way to achieve greater focal depth is to move the lens back from the subject until both the near and far field of interest is in focus. A wider angle photo will be the result; but than you can crop to size in post processing to cover the subject matter. Your lighting is very good! What camera are you using?
 
I really like this last photo. The size compatability of the figures and the Panther is excellent. Great depth of field with the settings you used on this shot.
 
The facial features on these figures are excellent! Kudos to Ken Osen!
 
Duke; A smaller aperture on the camer lens will give you greater depth of field and bring the Panther and Building into sharp focus. Another way to achieve greater focal depth is to move the lens back from the subject until both the near and far field of interest is in focus. A wider angle photo will be the result; but than you can crop to size in post processing to cover the subject matter. Your lighting is very good! What camera are you using?

Katana,

Yes I use the aperture feature on almost all my photos. The first two photos were taken with the purpose of the foreground being crisp and the background being a little fuzzy.....i.e. taken with a lower f # setting. I think I used f10 or f12 for these photos. I wanted the focus to be on the two figures in the foreground. When I want there to be more of a greater depth of field like the last photo with the Panther out front and to bring the background items like the house and tree into more focus...I change the f setting to a higher # in this case I shot that picture at f29. I believe around f18 f20 gives you a nice balance between foreground focus and background depth of field. One thing to remember, when shooting at a high f setting... you need to make sure you have good lighting AND that you hold the camera extremely steady, preferably on a tripod. Any camera movement will probably lead to a blurry picture. I'm using a Nikon D3000.
 
The facial features on these figures are excellent! Kudos to Ken Osen!

Agree wholeheartedly with this statement katana. Great faces are an extremely important component of a miniature figure looking good and Ken and team have done a great job on these two figures.
 
Katana,

Yes I use the aperture feature on almost all my photos. The first two photos were taken with the purpose of the foreground being crisp and the background being a little fuzzy.....i.e. taken with a lower f # setting. I think I used f10 or f12 for these photos. I wanted the focus to be on the two figures in the foreground. When I want there to be more of a greater depth of field like the last photo with the Panther out front and to bring the background items like the house and tree into more focus...I change the f setting to a higher # in this case I shot that picture at f29. I believe around f18 f20 gives you a nice balance between foreground focus and background depth of field. One thing to remember, when shooting at a high f setting... you need to make sure you have good lighting AND that you hold the camera extremely steady, preferably on a tripod. Any camera movement will probably lead to a blurry picture. I'm using a Nikon D3000.

Great technique and very effective. I use a Panasonic GX1 with image stabilization in the lens. The ISO goes up to 1600 so a great deal of aperture/time latitude is possible Typical shots I have posted are F 5.6, 1/40 Second at ISO 1600. I post process in PICASA which gives you great flexibilty in adjusting highlights, shadows, front lighting and color temperature. I cannot believe how far photography has come in the last 16 years!
 
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Duke; A smaller aperture on the camer lens will give you greater depth of field and bring the Panther and Building into sharp focus. Another way to achieve greater focal depth is to move the lens back from the subject until both the near and far field of interest is in focus. A wider angle photo will be the result; but than you can crop to size in post processing to cover the subject matter. Your lighting is very good! What camera are you using?

There is a balance between blur caused by shallow depth of field and diffraction. Diffraction starts to become noticeable above f/8. You've touched on 2 of the 3 ways to increase your depth of field. The 3rd way is to use a wide angle lens. I generally shoot with a 24-70mm lens and 35mm is a sweet spot along with f/22. I have a D800 and use ISO 100 to ensure a noise free picture. I shoot off a tripod and the average exposure is between 4-6 seconds using my video lights.

Frank
 
Another excellent scene Duke and those FJ's work really well with that very nice HB Panther. I have the 421 numbered Panther and it's one of my prized possessions in my collection. I agree what you said about the facial expressions on the figures and you can't go wrong with the price as well!

Tom
 
There is a balance between blur caused by shallow depth of field and diffraction. Diffraction starts to become noticeable above f/8. You've touched on 2 of the 3 ways to increase your depth of field. The 3rd way is to use a wide angle lens. I generally shoot with a 24-70mm lens and 35mm is a sweet spot along with f/22. I have a D800 and use ISO 100 to ensure a noise free picture. I shoot off a tripod and the average exposure is between 4-6 seconds using my video lights.

Frank

Thank you for the advise Frank. New techniques are always appreciated. I use a 24-90mm with image stabilization. The Panasonic Venus image processing engine does a pretty good job of filtering out noise at ISO 1600.
 
Another shot with better view of Panther...


A Panzer IV H and Kingtiger with a different pair of Fallschirmjager to go with your HB Panther A. Great figures by W. Britains. I wish I could do as nice a backdrop as you have done!

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Agreed, these figures look very good and hopefully there will be more in the future. It is very tempting to get into the WB WW2 figures as they fit my budget better. Chris
 
Agreed, these figures look very good and hopefully there will be more in the future. It is very tempting to get into the WB WW2 figures as they fit my budget better. Chris

IMO the new W. Britains Fallschirmjagers are some of the best WW II true 60 mm figures available today. The figures are size compatable with Figart and First Legion Armor. Some K&C Armor will work also; but they can range in size from 1/32 to1/28 scale depending on when they were made.

The great photo by WW II Buff has the excellent 1/30 scale Honor Bound Panther A; which is no longer in production, but they turn up on Ebay.
 
Agreed, these figures look very good and hopefully there will be more in the future. It is very tempting to get into the WB WW2 figures as they fit my budget better. Chris

I have to admit, if these two FJ's are something to go by and their price remains largely the same, I could be a convert. Well done to Ken and the team for producing some very nice WW2 figures.
 

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