Originally Posted by Otto the Otter

First off, welcome abord the site. Go to the introductions page and introduce yourself.

You don't need any fancy sets. My only "sets" are back drops I downloaded from this site and taped to a cardboard box. The rest of my shots are all out doors.

Take your figures outside, pose them in a natural looking fasion and take your picture. Get compfortable with posing them and watching what's in your back ground (so you don't ruin the scale) before you start worring about elaborate lighting and sets. Even if you just take a picture of the figure on your kitchen counter with the wall as a back drop it's a start.

Take several pictures of you figure in the same pose, from the same angle and from different angles. Sometimes you get luky and shot number one is perfect, other times, it may take ten or fifteen shots to get just right.

The folks on this site will give you any advice you want, and nobody will be overly critical of your work as we all started out taking shaky, out of focus pictures at some point.

Don't get discouraged if you're not taking Outrider-esque photos the first time out. Even he had to start somewhere.

All I've seen on this site is improvment