Small Soldiers reshoot

neogfx · May 13, 2007

OK so I reshot some of the images from my Small Soldiers set.
What do you think of these?
The originals can be found here http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81190

Defence of Bottle Pass

Fallen Soldier

Prisoners of War

Please comment and compare. I will post the others in the set when I have reshot them.

abraxas · May 13, 2007

even better.

brighteyesphotos · May 13, 2007

I like these better. The others were too bright. The darkness of these add to the feel of the "war."

Alex_B · May 13, 2007

much better! much better light

xfloggingkylex · May 13, 2007

What did you use for lighting if you dont mind me asking? I love the dramatic effect.

neogfx · May 13, 2007

Just a desk lamp. Can be very handy them desk lamps.

JustAMom · May 13, 2007

the 2nd one is good, the 4th one is great, and the third one is AWESOME

abraxas · May 13, 2007

You got a story that goes with this?

MrMatthieu · May 13, 2007

To my opnion i fyou want to shoot this small soldiers, light, background and focus have to be perfect, that 's not the case to my opinion, you should be able to do better

MichaelMigz · May 13, 2007

i really liked the originals, but these are jjust 100x better. th elighting totally makes these photos great

neogfx · May 13, 2007

abraxas said:
You got a story that goes with this?

The concept is that when nobody is about these models come to life and the German soldiers fight the British troops over certain "territories" in my room. It is a set of work for a gallery installation for my university degree.
It looks at the possibility (or should that be probability?) that there may be other plains of existence other than our own. It looks at the world in a different perspective to that in which we are used to seeing it.

neogfx · May 13, 2007

MrMatthieu said:
To my opnion i fyou want to shoot this small soldiers, light, background and focus have to be perfect, that 's not the case to my opinion, you should be able to do better

The focus in these seem to be pretty spot on from what I can see, remember that most of these are macro shots so I have had to get as large a DOF as possible for some. I'm quite happy with the lighting, with the possible exception of the first.
And the background in the first could possibly be better, but I didn't want to falsify things too much. These are not supposed to be realistic dioramas but rather toys that come to life and battle in the surroundings in which they find themselves.

I value critique highly, could you please elaborate on your comments as I would be willing to reshoot in order to get higher quality shots.