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Re: MOC: Dragoons, digitally photographed
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:38:27 GMT
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  beautiful job on the painting, jeff!  those are some great looking 'figs
and the gold trim details are especially nice!

  later ~ craig~

In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> (Please note the crosspost - trim your groups when replying!  Comments about
> the 'figs should got to .castle, comments about the photography or the camera
> to .publish)
> 
> Well, I went out and got a digital camera today...finally. It came down to
> the Sony Mavica FD83 and the Nikon Coolpix 800.  (Castle readers, don't worry,
> there _is_ a reason this is in the group.)
> 
> Both cameras were great - the Sony especially is very friendly and easy to use
> - but I decided to go with the Nikon's higher resolution (1600x1200) and a
> feature set that was more likely to be useful to me.
> 
> Anyway, I'm very pleased with my choice, and I've put up a couple of pictures
> I took tonight at my LEGO site.  (The address is in my .sig.)  The pics are of
> some modified minifigs I made a month or so ago, inspired by the Final Fantasy
> series of games.  (I figured Castle was the most appropriate LEGO theme.)  I'm
> really pleased with how they turned out (both the figs and the pics.)
> 
> On the page, I included some basic information on the photography conditions -
> lighting and such - is this sort of stuff helpful to people?  Should I
> continue
> to include it in other MOC sections I put up?  Or is it just more useless info
> cluttering up the page?  Is there other information that would be helpful?
> Distance from camera to figs, ISO eqivalent of the picture, that sort of thing?
> If there is, let me know.
> 
> J
> 
> --
> sakura@mediaone.net     is     Jeff Johnston       http://www.io.com/~jeffj
> My LEGO Web page has moved!  Go to: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/sakura
> Check out my Trade List and Want List - * - Last Updated 12/19/1999
> LEGO Geek Code:  SP+ CA +++ (375/6075) PI +++ #++ S--/++ LS++ Hal  M+ A++  YB73m



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  Re: MOC: Dragoons, digitally photographed
 
I'm very interested in your photography techniques! What are the zoom and macro capabilities of your Nikon, if I may ask? I'm looking for a good digital camera that can handle objects closer than the standard 10 inches. -- Paul Davidson craig (...) (27 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: MOC: Dragoons, digitally photographed
 
(...) Thanks, Craig! Craigo-lego was definitely the biggest inspiration that actually got me thinking about the possibilities of painted or otherwise decorated LEGO. I still think we need a lugnet.blasphemy group for painting, sawing, snipping, and (...) (27 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)

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  MOC: Dragoons, digitally photographed
 
(Please note the crosspost - trim your groups when replying! Comments about the 'figs should got to .castle, comments about the photography or the camera to .publish) Well, I went out and got a digital camera today...finally. It came down to the (...) (27 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.publish)

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