It happened. I bought this set just for one picture. My imagination was immediately turned on when I saw this set and I answered the devil’s call. You can’t say no to the devil, especially when is made of bricks. But #nospoiler for the moment, I’ll let you guess which of next pics is the…
Category: Reviews
Fun Fair: LEGO People Pack Review
The LEGO People Pack – Fun Fair 60234 makes its debut on August 1 here in the US, but since I was visiting family in Spain where they’ve had it available since June 1, I couldn’t resist picking up the set at a LEGO Store in Madrid. I’d been so excited to get my hands…
Brick Generals: Asian-themed Custom Minifigs
Feeling the sting from not being able to buy the Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner 80101 and Dragon Dance 80102 sets last year, I started searching for minifig customizers that specialized in creating Asian-themed characters and stumbled upon Brick Generals in Singapore. Brick Generals has a whole range of minifigs from Lunar New Year revelers…
More Bokeh for Your Mobile
One of the banes of mobile photography is the inability to create smooth backgrounds and bokeh. The problem is a matter of physics — small sensors like the ones we have in our phones can’t produce a shallow depth of field. Camera manufacturers came up with “portrait mode” to digitally fake it, but the AI…
Pseudo-macro LEGO Photography
If you’re shooting with a regular lens on your camera, filling the frame with LEGO minifigures often means composing with crop in mind, wasting pixels in edit, and ending up with a lower quality image. This is why many LEGO photographers shoot with dedicated macro lenses: you can get tack sharp, close-up shots without sacrificing…
Mobile Flash Photography: Godox A1 Review
Off-camera flash photography used to be the realm of DSLR and mirrorless shooters but now mobile shooters with supported phone models can get in on the game with the Godox A1. The Godox A1 is a compact device that is billed as a smartphone flash but also functions as a remote control and wireless transmitter…
DigitalPrint By Patrick Baroni: Custom Printed LEGO Parts
LEGO customization options have come a long way from the days of tedious hand painting and decal application. In just the past decade, several custom LEGO design shops have popped up in part due to digital UV printing technology that can produce very high quality prints in shorter time, with more colors, higher accuracy and…
Living Photos for Instagram with Vimage: App Review
Vimage is an app for Android and iOS that allows you to overlay pre-made looped animation effects on your still photos to create a “living photo” — a hybrid of photo and video. Living photos get some of the same benefit as short videos on social media such as higher engagement and longer viewing, but…
BrickWarriors: Custom accessories for LEGO minifigures
One of the reasons why I love shooting LEGO minifigs so much is that their modular design makes it very easy to create new characters and tell different stories with them. I don’t need to bust out the X-Acto knife and “kitbash” a minifig; I can simply swap out body parts as desired. But as…