7) Miniature photography.

Miniature photography using compact digital camera.

As for beginner (part 1), I will discuss the basic photography on miniature figures or glass ornaments to get start. Use this as our model and I have to practice with my steady hands on close-up shooting still objects. To begin with, my discussed options for getting close-up, focus on the smaller figures or ornaments from the camera and without using tripod making several different shots with the setting of ISO speed, white balance, exposure compensation EV +2 to -2, and others. And from there, we pick the best result of the pictures. Study the composition on each picture to understand the different setting so in order to improve our standard. Usually, when using point and shoot digital camera without much features as DSLR and less adjustment, but a good way to learn before investing into buying expensive camera. This practice gives some photographic tips and tricks for getting quality pictures of our shots. That's what my opinion in making best use of our money.

Lighting for photography.

Proper lighting for your photography will be the most important thing you can do to get an attractive detailed photo of the miniature shots. Will have two options--natural light, and artificial light (usually from a camera flash).

Indoor photography.

The interior of most houses will not have enough natural light to give you a good picture photo. Even if the light is bright enough, the "colour balance" of a photo (especially one taken with wrong exposure) can be off--yellowish with a regular light bulb, or greenish with a fluorescent bulb. Therefore, indoor photography will need a camera flash. For my case of close-up focus, I need to setup own lightings, and if using flash for close-up shots are not advisable.

Digital SLR.

For portrait or group photography in house, we need to check the distance range for our camera flash--just like our camera has a focus range for sharpness, it also has a distance range outside of which the flash will not give the proper amount of light If your camera flash operates for close-up work, and your flash is removable, you should consider getting an attachment which would allow your flash to operate off the camera, since lighting to the side of an object, and not straight in the front, is always more appealing (if we put the lighting off to the side, the lighting is not flat, and it will create proper, flattering shadows on your doll). Compact digital cameras generally do not have removable flash but with built in flash. (to be con’t)