Every month, we pick a LEGO photographer active in our community and share some of their work and a little about themselves. This month we meet toypoetry!
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Hello everyone!
My name is Anne, known as toypoetry on social media.
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I started taking toy photos about five years ago. Toy photography is for me a good way to escape from daily routine.
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For my Lego photography I love to create scenes with minifigures, work on their poses and make objects float if it fits in.
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Letting the minifigures interact with everyday items, sometimes showing them doing a little magic, describe my favorite subjects best.
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My current camera is a Nikon Z 6, using fixed focal lenses 50mm f/1.8 or 35mm with it.
For my latest pictures I chose the MC 105mm f/2.8.
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To plan the scene I put down some notes, gather together minifigures and things which can be useful for the diorama, wire, adhesive pads, foamboards and glitter.
If it’s a sunny day I take the scene outside, often during the hours before sunset, other days I take pictures on the dining table with a large window to my right using foam boards as reflector on the left.
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When finished I edit the raw files in Lightroom or Photoshop, adjust colours, brightness and remove wires and dust on the minifigures if necessary.
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The exclusive photo
Right at the beginning there was the idea to tell a story about a street musician, singing and playing guitar.
She would stand at the edge of the city park during her lunch break.
Someone passing by throws a tip into the hat before her.
Her little dog observes this and thinks “Woof, I’m hungry! Why can’t this coin be a dog treat for me.”
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The challenge here was to place the coin hanging on a wire in the position where it would look as if it was thrown to land in the turned up hat.
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For the background I placed the Botanical Garden set and as underground a grey floor tile.
I sprinkled a little glitter in front of and behind the figures to create a reflection effect.
Then I put a few bits of decorative moss to create the illusion of bushes.
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This scene should play in daylight, to underline the joie de vivre and love of musi, so I put up a white foamboard to left of the figures in a certain angle to reflect the light coming through the window. This light then hit the foamboard on the right side and illuminated the scene. Here a few additional placed sheets of folded white paper helped to lead the light.