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Originally Posted by BioBlade

Thanks for the tips! You’re obviously pretty familiar with the subject, so I hope you don’t mind if I ask a couple questions?
First, someone mentioned a ”macro” setting. In your experience, is this an important feature? I tend to shoot pretty close, up to even headshots of figures.
Second, any nuggets of wisdom on backdrops? I’m thinking scale grey brick (like castle walls) or wood planks. I imagine that would affect the lighting quite a bit, maybe even make a lightbox impractical for some shots.

Just chiming in as someone who enjoys toy photography (and also mentioned the macro feature lol)

If you're buying a point and shoot and it doesn't have a macro feature, it won't be able to focus on small, close up subjects like figure head shots. Though honestly I can't imagine there being many without this feature.

Whatever you use for your backgrounds, make it make sense and/or try and make it interesting. You're computer monitor provides an endless library of backgrounds for pictures





Depending on the quality of your monitor/tv and camera. You wan't to put a decent amount of space between your focus figure and the monitor so you can't see the pixels in the image.



And you wan't to match the lighting of your background. Use minimal lighting if its a night shot and in general place it in the same place the light source in the background so the shadows on your subject match the shadows in the background.





Putting objects or other figures in the background (and foreground) behind your focus will help give the picture depth and not feel like you're just snapping a pic of a toy against a flat screen.





Adding a floor or something that matches the image will help sell it too. Reflective floor in the image? Use a sheet of plastic to reflect the image of the monitor and help everything blend together





But really just try and match the flooring and you can give your picture even more depth. Or get super creative and print stuff out to use