Buying Diorama Photography
You've spent years in perfecting your diorama or railroad layout but the pictures you take do not do it justice. To your mind's eye the figures look real, the buildings are correctly scaled and the realistic detail. But the pictures you take make the building look like toys, the shrubbery like plastic and the unrealistic mood. Most difficult are layouts in N (160-1) or Z (220-1) or smaller than scale dioramas-1 87 scale.
There are three types of pictures you can take: showing the whole diorama, showing a perspective of the diorama without the intrusion of peripherals (room walls, etc.), and cropped close ups of the detail. The most realistic is the perspective shot which shows nothing but the diorama. In order to depict this properly, you must cut off some portion ofthe scene.
Assuming the diorama is on a table, position your camera on a sturdy tripod a few inches above the nearest corner so as not to include the sides of the diorama. Set the lens manually at the smallest F stop (which could be F11, F16 or F32). Set the camera at aperture priority (A) so that the exposure will be automatic. A point and shoot camera can be used but turn off the flash. Make sure the top of the picture in the finder includes only the background and none of the room walls. If a background is not a part of your diorama, buy a poster board in a sky blue and tack it behind the diorama as close as possible.
Wide Angle Digital Camera
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