Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Good lighting of LEGO photos

It is interesting to compare a commercial photo with a "mood" effects shot of the same thing.
See what a difference lighting and display technique make to the outcome of these too shots of almost the sme thing - a section of set 7623 - Temple Escape. It looks like a clip from a movie, but it is just standard LEGO well photographed.

The details of how it was done (underwater & with a drop of milk!) and other Flickr images by Avanaut can be seen at this link here: Avanaut at flickr.com
Lots of great photos with special effects here, especially Star Wars (including Hoth snow scenes!)
Compare the photo above with a normal photo (below) of the scene from the standard set photos.
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