Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Holding Stuff Extravaganza

I have finished my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Holding Stuff series.

This all started a couple months ago when I was looking for more storage opportunities, and I pulled out an old bin from a shelf in my studio, and found the collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures I bought a bunch of years ago - I forget when I got them, but it was well before the pandemic, so its been a minute.

I have not shot these figures very much.  For a while there my action figure acquisition rate vastly exceeded my ability to photograph them artistically, so I have a bunch of figures that have not graced my camera. This set of 4 7" turtles from NECA being one of them.  When I saw the figures sitting in that forgotten box, I got a mental image of a shot that was selectively lit, with Raphael holding up his weapon of choice, a Sai, with a very shallow depth of field, so Raph would fade into the background.

It was time to play! A couple hours later I had this shot.

I really liked the photo, and it turned out exactly how I envisioned it would in my minds eye.   Since there are 4 turtles, and I had the whole set, I decided to let all of them grace my lens, and my artistic eye. All shot with the same style.

I like some more than others, but over the next couple of months I managed to capture a photo of each turtle.  These are the images I came up with:

That completed the set of turtles. Sometime around the 3rd and 4th turtle I was cleaning another part of my studio and I realized I had actually purchased the turtles sensei, Splinter, in a post-COVID trip to a second hand toy store, so I shot his portrait as well.

Splinter was a nice way to finish off this series.  

Most of my work is singletons - I rarely think in terms of series, so it was kinda of nice to revisit the same processing style over and over.  It was nice having that restriction.

I figure I'd end this post with a few behind-the-scenes shots of what these figures look like when I take their photos.   

Thus ends the post about these heroes on the half-shell. Turtle power!