Review: LEGO 21330 Home Alone

Let’s have a look at this brand new LEGO IDEAS set. It will be in line with the expectations? It will pay homage to the blockbuser movie? Let’s read my opinion and you will find out!

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: sara.bian123

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 @sara.bian123! “I’m an artist and mom living near Seattle. Inspired by cartoons growing up, I got a degree in commercial art and worked as a 2D video game animator after…

How to Create an Underwater Bubbling Effect

Underwater toy photography can be fun but making the scene come alive can be a challenge. Often, the scene can look a bit too sterile with zero movement. In this video, I’m going to show you how to add a stream of bubbles to divers and underwater objects. The secret ingredient is an effervescent tablet….

Behind the Scenes: Tomek Skog

Photos of shiny, happy people doing shiny, happy things practically dominate my LEGO photography feed on Instagram. Granted, my preferences lean toward minifigs from the CREATOR theme and the Collectible Minifigure series so bright colors and moods are the expectation. One LEGO photographer who departs from the tendency towards all this glee and squee though…

Behind the Scenes: Luigi Priori

I am not a builder, or at least, I’m not very good at building MOCs (My Own Creations) so most of the time my LEGO photography is set in natural or found environments. Sure, I have a few brick-built elements and a couple of sets that I sometimes use as backgrounds in my photos, but…

Behind the Scenes: Maiko in the Rain

There are many techniques minifig photographers can use to separate the subject from the background. The most common techniques are using a shallow depth of field, where just the minifig is in focus but the foreground and background are completely out of focus; and color, where the minifig stands out because of a dominant color….

Behind the Scenes: Stroboscopic Dancer

Ever since I saw Joe McNally capture the sequence of a dance in a single long exposure several months ago, I have been aching to try the technique myself. The advanced technique Joe used is called stroboscopic flash, or repeating flash in some other camera systems, and involves using an off-camera flash to light the…