In the past few years of painting models for both commissions and to sell on the shop, I've been slowly taking more time over the photography of the finished models. Originally it was just so I'd have a decent picture for my own portfolio, and use a plain white background. But over time I made some basic quick-n-dirty bases and backgrounds to show the model in a setting . I kept them pretty generic at first; a simple grassy base and rock backdrop and a road surface with a grey concrete backdrop. Not great, but as a start, I was encouraged by the results. It set the model off nicely and, especially for the shop, offered an impression of the model in a game setting.     After these very basic versions, I made two more, both with much more detail to them. In each case they were a little rushed, but again, showed promise and did (in my own opinion) look a step up from the previous ones. So far they've been okay, but I've noticed that they could be with having more area of...

For a long time I kept the photography of the figures and models I paint pretty simple with plain white backgrounds, just out of easy more than anything. But as time went on I wanted the photgraphs to look a little more - dare I say - professional. So I started using an open source graphics package called GIMP. With this software, I was able to remove the backgrounds to the models and add in an equally plain, but more regular one. Sometime a light grey, then a faint old paper effect. I still do this with the photographs I take for my reference portfolio. But when posting them on the shop or Instagram, they looked a little anemic. Looking at other people who added scenery and various bases to show off their figures in their photos intimidated me a little but I finally took some tenative steps with some very basic set-dressing to my model photography. And while this isn't a complete run-down of my photography set-up, it will hopefully show that you don't need go crazy with scener...