I love seeing photos of minifigs in natural environments. When they’re well matched to their scale and the narrative, the results are captivating. More often than not, photos like these are taken outdoors by unflinching toy photographers ready to soil their knees, lie on rocky beaches and risk losing their minifigs to wind and water…
Tag: LEGO
Party Banana Juice Bar: Exclusive Promo Minifig Review
I don’t typically collect whole minifigs, rather, I mine them for parts to use in my own character creations and this guy from the Party Banana Juice Bar 5005250 yielded big time. The little box set that came free with a $35 USD or more purchase in mid-July shows the costumed minifig on the packaging…
#inthestyleof Amber: The Music Attic
Several days ago, I went behind the scenes with Amber to see how she shoots her warmly lit brick vignettes and I also launched the #inthestyleof_nocturnelle9 challenge. I’ve got to admit, I thought this challenge would be a breeze since I already had a smaller modular CREATOR set to use as the brick-built environment and…
Behind the Scenes: Amber
Yellow is the color of happiness, and the color of realism, or at least that’s how Amber likes to think about the light she uses in her LEGO photography. Warm light — amber light — plays a big role in her work: “I’ve always loved the feeling of realness that warm light can add to…
#inthestyleof Renner_Lego: Cereal Unicyclist
In the second installment of the #inthestyle of series featuring Renner_Lego’s fun photo of a waiter tripping and spilling sugar cubes, I issued a challenge to use real food and minifigs in action. I didn’t want to buy anything so I scanned the fridge and the cupboard, taking mental inventory of the food items in…
Create a Custom Minifig Contest
If you follow my toy photography account on Instagram, you may have noticed that I tend to shoot non-stock minifigures like this hipster who is totally not inspired by my neighbor. Non-stock minifigs are those that I’ve created by mixing and matching parts and accessories from LEGO and customizers like Citizen Brick, BrickWarriors, SI-DAN, and…
Behind the Scenes: Renner_Lego
Toy photography lends itself to whimsy, and LEGO minifig photography even more so, but Renner_Lego’s work takes the potential for playfulness up a notch with the illusion of freezing action through compositing. It’s his photos with food in particular that caught my attention. Far from the unimaginative minifig-in-your-lunch snapshots taken with a phone, Renner_Lego’s concepts…
MiniMan Studio: Create Your Own Minifigure Review
The lifeless beach babe above is definitely not a LEGO minifigure. Apart from the dead giveaway (I’m sorry, I had to), your second clue should have been her stylish swimsuit top. LEGO doesn’t make nice bikinis for the ladies (see Exhibit A: Fun at the Beach people pack). Nope, this moribund minifigure was all my…
#inthestyleof The APhOL: The Prisoner
Last week, I posted a behind-the-scenes look at one of The APhOL’s photos and challenged myself as well as other toy photographers to recreate the look of “Sculpting”. I didn’t want to use the same subject of a sculptor though, but I wanted to try the technique of creating a dark environment, streaming light through…