Artist Feature: Hey.light

Each month, we pick a LEGO photographer from our community and share some of their work and a little bit about themselves. This month’s artist is Hey.light! Hi, my name is Astrid, I’m 58 years old and live in northern Germany.  I am a florist and have been teaching young people at a vocational school for many,…

40416 December 2020 Gift With Purchase Review

The upcoming gift with purchase for December is a small outdoor ice skating rink. This gift with purchase, a promotional limited time set available from Lego stores and the Lego online store, will be included for free with a purchase of $150. The Set The most prominent feature of this set is the gears that…

40410 Charles Dickens Tribute Review

LEGO often has a Christmas themed GWP (Gift With Purchase) set available to customers buying from them in the run up to the festive period and this year is no exception. Set 40410 Charles Dickens Tribute is one of this year’s offerings and Brickcentral were kind enough to send me one to review in advance…

Artist Feature: Hanasansiro & Tantelane80

Each month, we’ll pick an artist from our LEGO photography community and share a little bit about them and their work. We’re happy to present @hanasansiro and @tantelane80! “Hello, my name is Lina. I’m a 39 year old mother of two amazing boys who really love to play with LEGO. I started to do LEGO…

A Creative Journey

Hello community! For this month’s tip I would like to bring all of you on my journey along the picture-making road. I would like to describe my creative process so maybe you can steal some ideas for yourself. If you do it, please tell me how it will work for you! IDEA GENERATION Like most…

Artist Feature: Invadergrim619

Each month, we’ll pick an artist from our LEGO photography community and share a little bit about them and their work. We’re happy to present @invadergrim619 “Hello! My name is Josh, I’m 30 years old, a married father of 3, 8 year Navy vet and Graphic Designer I started doing toy photography in 2016 and…

The LEGO Book Nook for Photographers

UPDATE: Now on LEGO Ideas! Please support it if you love it! Every LEGO photographer needs a LEGO book nook. It’s a compact photography set that displays discreetly and beautifully on your bookshelf that you can have ready for shooting at a moment’s notice. I started my first book nook in January this year. I’m…

Wide angle vs Telephoto

This month we’re going to be talking about different focal lengths and how each can have a very different outcome on your final image. First we’ll start with wide angle, ultra wide angle and fisheye lenses. A wide angle lens on a full frame camera is from 35 to 24mm. Ultra wide angle is 24…

40422 Frankenstein’s Monster Review

The Frankenstein’s monster Brickheadz set (40422) is here, just in time for Hallowe’en 2020 – a year that has already been horrific enough, thank you very much. The set is also a tie in with the Universal film company and their roster of monster movies and characters. Mary Shelley’s estate is probably not seeing any…