From what I've seen personally, the only time 'tricky to photograph' applies is to paint texture on polystone statues. Flash on cameras tends to wash out the paint apps on polystone.
Hot Toys/Etnerbay 1/6 stuff photographs fine. I own the DX Indy and people say the same thing but the photos and inhand are the same. That is a very average likeness as well, again most likely because of PERS
Really the only difference is that problems get dramatically magnified on 1/6 Hot Toys sculpts when they blown up to 1/2+ for pics. Its the lack of size in real life that you don't notice faults as much.
um yeah, my bad .... I didn't realize I wrote 'awful'. That is dramatically overstating things, not sure why I wrote that.
I meant its 'meh' ...which is why I made the post in this thread.
I own the Enterbay 1/4 Terminator and will buy the upcoming BD one. They are not meh
Also, its because we have comparison to much better Hot Toys Arnie sculpts. The Terminator1 tech noir figure has an amazing likeness.