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.

smartphone photography theory.

  • Friday night lites: Gallic sparrow – Allez le bleus!

    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: 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