Gideon

Prospecting on Île de Zeus

Very innovative cobblestone design

Nice ship, especially the hull! When it comes to the photography I have a weak spot for nice clean backgrounds Just mind the lighting so that if you want a shadow that it falls in the direction you want. If you don't want a shadow I suggest at least 2 similarly colored light sources.

Great challenge and congratulations not only to the winners but to all who made great efforts in their building for this challenge!

Fantastic houses and great scene overall! Very good presentation as well A small suggestion is however to use different colors (dbg/lbg?) for the walls and street as the contrast between those is a bit to low.

Nice builds, especially the fig combos and fig posing

Welcome! Great to see more citizens of Astrapi!

Not this year either I'm afraid... Going on a trip to Zambia in August so I've spent all my "wife acceptance budget" this summer I will unfortunately not honor the tradition of representing Historica in Skaerbaek this year either

Welcome! Great to see more Swedes here

Very nice facade! I've been struggling with one myself for a while so I know that it takes quite a lot of work to do only one side of a building too... Approval from Oleon!

Great jungle foliage, and I quite like the SNOTed shoreline as well

Great build overall, and I really like the composition of that first picture

It's actually not the color of the light which is the problem, unless you have mixed color temperatures which you have a hint of at the left side of the backdrop where there is yellowish incandescent (?) lighting and bluish natural lighting (looks like it's coming from a window?). I would suggest that you ensure that the whole build is lit with light of the same temperature. But the issue is that the camera is not adjusting the light correctly (either because the auto is misinterpreting the light or that you have it set to another setting which is not working out well). Based on your Exif data it looks like you have a Canon PowerShot SX160 IS and in that case the white balance settings at your disposal are the following: http://www.manualsli...ck.html?page=84 I would suggest either the "Tungsten" setting if the bulbs are incandescent, or "Flourescent" if that is the light source (or maybe even "Custom" if you want to fine-tune your white balance setting). The alternative (the way I do it) is to adjust the white balance afterwards, but in that case you should shoot in RAW as otherwise the camera will throw away a lot of the color information as it saves the jpeg with the wrong white balance setting) I made a quick attempt at changing the white balance of your build using Picasa, where I set the background close to the build on the right side as the reference (where the build shadows the blue light and the background is only lit by the incandescent lights). It might be possible that GIMP has a similar tool, but my old workflow before switching to Lightroom, was always to treat my RAW files in Picasa to get the exposure right before continuing with things like background removal in GIMP. It of course then makes the bluish light on the left very pronounced, but I think the colors of the bricks (which seems to be primarily to be lit by the artificial light) come out better. If you then were to replace the background it would look more natural with the neutral gray background. Compared to the original picture from flickr:

Building this kind of "work in progress" MOCs are harder than it looks imho. Well executed and photographed!

Great layout! That is a serious collection of ships

Very nice, this would fit right into Guilds of Historica! No one would probably complain if you joined Kaliphlin and cross-posted creations like this one there

Still waiting for the mineral samples to be analyzed.

Loyal to money in general

Great to see BoBS well represented at that exhibition! How do you transport the Margot? Is the rigging detatchable?

Definitely one of the best and most suitable agricultural builds yet here in BoBS

Great way to flesh out the religious life of BoBS and very suitable for a Sea Rat settlement to be such a melting pot of cultures!

Congratulations on getting your photo on Flickr Explore! I agree, the white bricks have a yellowish look. The fact that the background has been edited to an un-biased gray probably adds to this impression. Shooting in RAW makes it a piece of cake to correct the white balance in post-processing. Especially if you take a picture of a reference you know is white or even better gray. (I use a 18% gray card nowadays for calibrating my WB which I then can apply to all pictures taken with the same setup. Previously I used a folded white paper at the edge of the frame to calibrate each image in Picasa.) Otherwise it is as ME said good to play with the WB settings in the camera to match the color temperature of your light source(s). I've found that large amounts of tan can mess up my metering, especially with my old Olympus that was a problem.

Wow! This is a very nice rendition of the harbor of Barqa (which I've been thinking about building for several years but not gotten around to yet ) I like the overall design but especially the amount of detail you've put in there and the excellent minifigs! (Which torso did you use for the sheik...?) I will update the Barqa HSS registry to include this build. My lighthouse was a challenge entry so it was not eligible for filling the Nautical category but this would count

Welcome to Historica! Nice figures

Nice ship overall and great color scheme! Nice grating also, is it reversed headlight bricks...?