I’m honored to have been contacted by Brickcentral to offer you the September tip of the month. I’d like to talk about a technical subject that you probably won’t use every day, but which can be very useful in certain cases, and which I use regularly in my photography: focus stacking. During photo shoots, we’re…
Category: Tips
Outdoor photography tips with Suzy and red bike
For this tip, I’ll show you how to take better photos outdoors by tweaking details. Start with a minifig and “something” because it’s the easiest setup you can photograph. It requires little amount of forest, garden, or beach to borrow for a while. Try to find a place with fairly the same level of light…
Shooting Lego Sets Interiors
I wanted to go back to basics with some tips on how to shoot interiors of standard sets. This will include several tips on how to set up the scene, where to put lights, and how to edit to achieve a certain style.I divided my sets into four themes, Creator 3-in-1, Friends, TV sets, and…
Framing Camera Shots
When it comes to photography, there are a variety of shots a photographer can take that help you tell a story for your viewer. Many of the terms I’ll be using this month originate in film-making, which I learned in various courses in art school like storyboarding and film history, and are equally relevant to…
Building and Photographing Brick-built Scenes
This article is intended as a compilation of tips to consider when shooting entire LEGO-built scenes, especially if you don’t have a lot of brick resources available for large MOCs. My goal is to remind you of some important compositional basics to consider when you build your brick scene and how to utilize this to…
Conveying Emotions in Toy Photography
For me, the most important thing in a photo is the storytelling. Photographing any minifigure in any environment is within everyone’s reach. But if you want to catch the eye and the curiosity of the viewer, your photo must tell a story. And to tell a story, it may be necessary to convey an emotion….
Using Mirrors to Extend a Background
I’ve been doing LEGO photography for a while and like many people, my collection consists of built and displayed sets as well as bulk pieces to make the MOCs for my photos. Who hasn’t dreamed of making large LEGO sets, which take up a lot of space in the photo? But unfortunately, we’re confronted with…
How to Shoot LEGO in “Space”
Space– the final frontier. Not only for toy photography but within reason, we can take some bricks or figures almost anywhere on the planet to take pictures. Not everyone has millions of dollars to build real rockets and go to space. So if we want to take LEGO to (outer) space, we have to fake…
How to shoot LEGO cars
We’ve invited our community member m1brickcars to share some advices to take realistic LEGO cars pictures and this is what he came out with!