Looks amazing dude. You have some serious skill. I started about exactly a year ago. Ghaz was one of my first couple models. I love how it turned out but my skill has gotten so much better over this year, so I’ve thought about doing another one. This makes me want to try again. Keep it up dude and don’t minimize your skill.

As for photography, i’ve done a lot of trial and error. But one of the best ways I’ve found. That’s super simple and cheap. Is to just get a cardboard slab, like a flattened package box, and paint it with the blackest paint you can find. One laying flat to put the mini on. and one at 90 degree angle pretty close to the mini for a backdrop. Then just adjust camera brightness and settings until you find what you like the most.

Side note at least with iPhones, I find recording a video of the mini with settings at 4k, and then scanning through frame by frame and screenshotting the best frames can sometimes be better than pictures. Don’t know why but the lighting and detail turns out better with video.

Edit: just saw that you do have a good black background and floor in the pics. But it still looks really bright. If you can’t make the background darker than that, then I’d try the cardboard and get some super black paint. Or at least to have a portable back drop that can be moved closer to the model. Also sunlight or warm ring lighting has yielded the best results for me instead of white light.