Comments on: Review: Megahouse’s Aludra (Redux)

By: Aka

Aka — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:28:19 +0000

It makes me happy people enjoy those pictures. Because I was so on the fence about them, and wondered if they were pushing it too far. Turns out, not so much

You consider Aludra loli? or you’re just comparing her against them?

You really should unbox yours and invest in a good camera! I’d love to see more reviews out there. One of the reasons I started doing them was because I couldn’t find many out there.

You don’t need anything like a DSLR like I have, but one of the prosumer point & shoot cameras would be great. Rico over at Polyvinyl Crush does all his pictures with a Canon PowerShot G10, it’s still not the cheapest camera or anything, but for the money I think it looks like a pretty great camera. It out performs my camera in many ways in fact, since mine’s from 2003.

By: Jem

Jem — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:14:08 +0000

Those were some very interesting and funny pictures that you took of Aludra and the figmas (Drossel and Kagami).

I have, yet, to open a good portion of the figures that I own, but there was always something about her character design that caught my attention relative to the other loli looking character in that franchise.

She looks good. It’s pictures like this that make me want to open up my figures, invest in a great camera and start taking pictures of the collection.

By: Aka

Aka — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:36:44 +0000

I’ve tried paper, but what tends to happen is they colour my lighting making finding the white balance difficult. Additionally the bulbs stick out from my lamps, and one doesn’t even have a cover, so I can’t put paper over these without creating a fire hazzard.

I manage to leave my ‘studio’ up for the most part, but it restricts access into certain storage areas in my room.

By: mikiwank

mikiwank — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:33:03 +0000

Waiting to buy a diffuser, you can made up of filters with layer paper.
As for me, I definitely buying two extra lights because I have difficulty with only two.
It is true that to install a photo studio takes a lot of space. Should be able to leave in place all the time.

By: Aka

Aka — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:12:47 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions mikiwank.

The plexiglas however works perfectly for white shots, it only lacks during black shots. The plexiglass also reflects the figure in the glass so you get a nice mirror effect. I don’t see how that would be possible with simple white paper.

I DEFINITELY need to get some diffusers, as I’m just using 4 normal lamps with compact flourecent bulbs in them. Causes all kinds of problems. I also need a better area to take pictures from, my setup is pretty DIY.

By: mikiwank

mikiwank — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:23:31 +0000

To avoid using the plexi, you can use a bright white paper. Once the settings of lights is the figurine is reflected above. I already did the test that proves to be fairly conclusive. So there is less work with photoshop later.

on the settings on a black background, it is very difficult to achieve when the item is very contrasting pictures (lots of white for example). It is imperative to use spread diffuser to your light bulbs.

By: Aka

Aka — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:43:00 +0000

Haha good stuff, at least I convinced someone out of all this that she’s worth buying. I’m glad you can look past her weapon unlike these other schmucks

Kagamin’s a baaad girl

By: Aka

Aka — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:41:40 +0000

My post-processing is 2 steps for 95% of my pictures and nearly automated thanks to Lightroom 2. White balance preset and add 10 to “Blacks”. That’s it. White balance is added on import automatically, and the +10 on “Blacks” I use another preset for after checking that it’s still the right choice on the first picture. It’s just specifics like macro shots and black backgrounds that get messy.

Steal away, all the content produced on my site is licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada license. Should even be included in the metadata on each picture!

By: Lylibellule

Lylibellule — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:56:55 +0000

Your photos convinced me : she will join my other QB. Really superb!
OMG!!!… on the contrary, Kagamin and Aludra are to be classified in the X folder! LooooL

By: Ashlotte

Ashlotte — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:46:09 +0000

Geez Aka thats an involved Post-process…Mines like 2 steps long being the lazy bastard I am… *cough*

But yea she looks really REALLY nice on the white…Shame I still squick at the metal dick, but I’m stealing all the shots without it showing for my collection. :p