X-Man...trainee

Results of playing with lights in my light box, and some textures and flares in post.

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Mando and Luxo Jr.

 WTF is this? 

This is a shot I took during a work offsite.  We are a remote team, so we all got together and built LEGO from our various office over Video Chat- cause why not?   Team building, fun, blah blah - yeah, its cool we can do that. I used my home studio to build it, cause thats where I have the space...

Anyhoo, I finished my built of the Luxo Jr LEGO model a bit early... cause I'm a good LEGOer thats why... so to fill in some time I grabbed my most recent model, Mando, and played with some lights, and came up with this shot in about an hour.

It is a bit, completely, poorly shot (used my cell phone), and the Photoshop is really rough in many spots, but it helped give life to an awesome LEGO model. Anyway, thats what this is.

I made it from these two shots.

I Cracked the Secret for a Portable Miniature Photography Studio!

 Dudes... I think I finally cracked a portable studio I can use for toy photography that gives me all the tools my home studio does, but will easily fit  into my existing photo bag.

That recent Mando photo helped me crack it.  Video is here:

The parts you need from Platypod are:

• Two Elbows
• One Clamp
• One eXtreme plate
• One Tab

Mando

 One model assembled, painted, photographed, and Photoshopped.

Painted Mando

 Last night I assembled this Mandalorian model from a kit by Bandai. I hoped it wouldn't need painting, but it turned out and there were a small but annoying number of small defects in the plastic that I decided to paint over.    This morning I got all the painted bits reassembled.    Should look good in front of my camera!

Surely You Jest?

The Jester.

Symmetry

 This is a jester model, full of all my janky painting mistakes.  Don't worry tho, cause soon it will feature in an image full of my janky Photoshop mistakes.  That, my friends, is called symmetry.