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What kind of tools and such do you incorporate into your photography?
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I use a folding table to setup my scenes and take my pictures. I also use a regular tripod and a mini tripod, depending on what shots I want or need to take and where I want the camera to be.
For a camera, I used to use a Nikon Coolpix 4300 that I was borrowing from work. I've since bought my own camera, which is an Olympus Camedia C7000. I love it, so glad that I bought it.
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Do you create actual effects in the real world? Or maybe Photoshop is your forte?
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If you mean do I shoot outdoors, then no. I don't live somehwere that I can easily take my toys outside to take pictures, and I'm not willing to haul them off somewhere to do it. If I need an obvious outdoor shot I'll do my best to recreate it indoors, or photoshop whatever I need to compensate.
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Do you consider yourself an amateur (maybe semi-pro or pro) photographer or do you only pick up the camera to create your Dio-stories?
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Most of the pics I take are for my dio's, or typical family pics. I've only had the camera for a little over 2 months, so I'm still new with it. Chapter 5 of my dio was really the first time I got to using it.
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What's the strangest (or Hardest) thing you've ever done to capture a perfect shot?
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Nothing, really. I manipulate the background and figures to fit in with the scene I want to do. Thats pretty much it. It might take me a long while to get the shot, for example [img=http://www.cobrabivouac.com/dios/DOF/Chap5/5-23.jpg]this pic of Roadblock[/img] reacting to brawler took me almost an hour to get, because I wanted it to look a certain way, and the other 25 shots I took to get this one just didn't look as good as I thought this one did, and the lighting didn't match the other shots.
That said, I'm not a professional by any means, and I never had a photography class. I don't get insane over the 'perfect shot' because to me that turns it into work, and once I stop seeing doing dios as fun is when I need to find something else to help me relax.
The whole point in doing a diostory is to entertain and tell your story. More so, to enjoy GI Joe in a whole different way. If I'm going to spend energy obsessing over any part of the process, it will be the story itself and not the picture. That isn't saying that I'm lazy about the picture taking process, but my focus (hah hah geek joke) is more the story and the pics are secondary.
I'd rather have you (the reader) concentrate on my story rather than how much in perspective a particular scene is, because when it comes down to it its not special fx or flashy photography (hah...another geek joke) that makes the story good, it's the story itself.
Just my 2 cents though.
dan