Scale – in – focus

Scale in Focus

Thinking more about photographing small things

Scale in Focus is no longer posting new content and is an archive of material by Anthony Oliver and Aviagrafik.

A new blog about model railways will be along soon.

color

  • A journey into decoding orthochromic imagery for model makers. ‘The one where a black and white image tells lies’ After six gruelling hours in the kitchen with Julia Child and a needlessly complex Boeuf Bourgignon recipe, I retreated to the chaise to recover from the worst effects of the shallot fumes and contemplate the instruction Read more

  • BASICS: Pixel colour

    Long read 45 min This is the third in a series of ‘fundamentals’ posts which are based around selected excerpts from the forthcoming book The Scale Modelling Photography Manual. Additive (electronic pixel) colour This post follows up from what we learned about the basics of light and pigment based subtractive colour systems (RBY paint and Read more

  • BASICS: Light

    following post is an edited excerpt from the forthcoming title: The Scale Modelling Photography Manual. Before we begin to think about the practical techniques which help us take better images of our models, we need to absorb some key theories and grasp the basics of the science behind what we are doing. Mythbusting 101: Awesome Read more