Set 10280 Botanical Collection is an adult oriented floral build that is a bit of a departure from the sets LEGO typically releases. LEGO & Brickcentral provided Ohsomebrick & SarouxBastoux with the set so they could review and shoot it for us. Spoilers, they both liked it! However, they have different things to say about…
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LEGO 10280 Botanical Collection – SarouxBastoux Review
Set 10280 Botanical Collection is an adult oriented floral build that is a bit of a departure from the sets LEGO typically releases. LEGO & Brickcentral provided Ohsomebrick & SarouxBastoux with the set so they could review and shoot it for us. Spoilers, they both liked it! However, they have different things to say about…
Creating a stronger silhouette
For this month’s tips, I’m going to show you how to use silhouettes to help your audience easily identify the subject and action of your photo. The use of a distinctive silhouette has been a staple of character designers to make easily recognizable characters. This advice comes from my college instructors in design and animation,…
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…
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…
How to Shoot Toys Underwater with Orbeez
One of the challenges of shooting toys underwater is preventing them from floating right to the top. You can use wires to hold the toys in place or fishing line to anchor them, but those methods can be tedious. In this video, I show one easy and fun way to do it using Orbeez. If…
Creating Backgrounds for LEGO Photography
My last set of tips was about creating a diorama for your minifigs, but now what about the background? Backgrounds are often overlooked when it comes to LEGO photography. The idea and subject normally always takes preference, and the background is sometimes an afterthought. I take a lot of time deciding on a background before…