Daniel: Now I'm finished. This gelatinous thing is a pain to work with.
My apologize to Armored-Struggle-Wagon. I appreciate the recommendation, but that paint would mess with the texture I had planed.
My camera is trash but here some more photos: http://imgur.com/a/ZrtkU
Tahrey: Ruffling the wax to look like fur? Now that's a cool idea! :3
BTW, if the camera isn't too good indoors, get as much light (other than its own flash) as you can on the subject, maybe put it on a minipod or just a flat surface of suitable height and orientation and use night-shot/fireworks/etc mode, and stand it a little further away so it can focus better. A slightly smaller image but with crisper focus can still look a lot better after being cropped down.
Oh, and if you can take the pic in the middle of the day near a south facing window, with the artificial light acting only as fill-in, that can make a dramatic difference. Funnily enough you really need as much of the blue end of the spectrum as possible... indoor lights tend to be short on it, but at the same time most digital cameras are least sensitive to those colours also, which is what causes a majority of the graininess after it performs the internal white-balancing steps (which, for one thing, will then end up massively boosting the blue channel and then post-smoothing it, leading to that characteristic grainy-yet-blotchy appearance, as there might only be 2 or 3 bits worth of intensity there instead of a good 8 or more). If you can get a blue-tinted incandescent craftlight, or some halogen bulbs, instead of CFLs or cheap LEDs, they work the best as they're closest to sunlight and so give good colour rendition. "SAD lamp" fluorescents or LEDs aren't as good because they're made specifically to flood the eye with blueness at the expense of all other considerations - they'll get rid of the grain, but as they don't have a proper continuous spectrum, some colours will end up looking very strange.
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My apologize to Armored-Struggle-Wagon. I appreciate the recommendation, but that paint would mess with the texture I had planed.
My camera is trash but here some more photos: http://imgur.com/a/ZrtkU
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BTW, if the camera isn't too good indoors, get as much light (other than its own flash) as you can on the subject, maybe put it on a minipod or just a flat surface of suitable height and orientation and use night-shot/fireworks/etc mode, and stand it a little further away so it can focus better. A slightly smaller image but with crisper focus can still look a lot better after being cropped down.
Oh, and if you can take the pic in the middle of the day near a south facing window, with the artificial light acting only as fill-in, that can make a dramatic difference. Funnily enough you really need as much of the blue end of the spectrum as possible... indoor lights tend to be short on it, but at the same time most digital cameras are least sensitive to those colours also, which is what causes a majority of the graininess after it performs the internal white-balancing steps (which, for one thing, will then end up massively boosting the blue channel and then post-smoothing it, leading to that characteristic grainy-yet-blotchy appearance, as there might only be 2 or 3 bits worth of intensity there instead of a good 8 or more). If you can get a blue-tinted incandescent craftlight, or some halogen bulbs, instead of CFLs or cheap LEDs, they work the best as they're closest to sunlight and so give good colour rendition. "SAD lamp" fluorescents or LEDs aren't as good because they're made specifically to flood the eye with blueness at the expense of all other considerations - they'll get rid of the grain, but as they don't have a proper continuous spectrum, some colours will end up looking very strange.
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