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.

photography

  • Image gallery

    this an unordered selection of my photography. A mix of full-frame digital, conventional medium format and 35mm along with smart phone imagery. for more contemporary art photography and art please have a look at my Hand Held Skies website. https://handheldskies.mystrikingly.com/ all images copyright Anthony Oliver / Aviagrafik 2025 Read more

  • The train now arriving at . . .

    As I mentioned in some of the edited archive posts and updates on my health and hobbies, I’ve moved away from the styrene kit hobby and revisiting my other love, British railways and model railways. The main focus will still be on photography tutorials with skills, hints, and tips for miniature hobbyists to make the Read more

  • Friday night lites: Armchair aviation archaeology

    Digging up an old 1/32 Hasegawa P-51D build Fresh from an excursion to the kitchen in search of that last (and probably stale) HobNob saw me passing the telly and being distracted by a documentary about ‘Friday Night Lights’ – perhaps better known as an NBC Netflix drama series, the factual documentary was about a Read more

  • BASICS: Workbench images 2. Practice

    Optimising the workbench as an ad-hoc photo studio for smartphone images The following post is an expanded view on the use of a smart phone for scale model photography, and is based on a chapter from the forthcoming title: The Scale Modelling Photography Manual. The inside scoop In part 1 we investigated the hows and Read more

  • BASICS: Workbench images 1. Theory

    PART 1. A two-part journey through the basics of smartphone photography Long read 20 mins The following post is an expanded view on the use of a smart phone for scale model photography, and is based on an excerpt from the forthcoming title: The Scale Modelling Photography Manual. Achtung Spitfeur! So, you make models, you Read more

  • Salty Beau – a sea going u-boat killer

    A Coastal Command Beaufighter – 1/48th Tamiya Beaufighter Fresh from an excursion to the laundry to gently tap the water cylinder in the vain hope that some physical abuse may elicit hot water for a shower, I happened to look out across the harbour and caught sight of what looked for all the world like 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