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It's been a rainy day in Melbourne tpday. My 6 yr old son spent 3-4 hours non-stop assembling this lego toy. I thought I would capture his efforts.



Thanks for looking

Alex

Nice clean macro shot. Good even lighting. Good enough to be on the front of the instructions.

How did you light it?
Nice reflective table you have it on.
How did you light the background?

Alex,

I think there's a been a recall from Lego on the engines used in that kit. Something about an oil leak?

Seriously, nice clean image.

rflower wrote: Good enough to be on the front of the instructions.

nice one Alex.

gstark wrote:Alex,

I think there's a been a recall from Lego on the engines used in that kit. Something about an oil leak?

Seriously, nice clean image.

And I still know who I would feel more comfortable flying with, and it ain't the 90 year old.

Seriously, great image.

Thank you all for your generous comments. It was fun shooting this.

LoL Gary!

Alex

rflower wrote:Nice clean macro shot. Good even lighting. Good enough to be on the front of the instructions.

How did you light it?
Nice reflective table you have it on.
How did you light the background?

Hi. I lit it with 3 lights

1 x SB-800 on the camera left (in a soft box)

1 x Elinchrome D-lite 400 on camera right and above the subject as a fill (in a large softbox).

1 x SB-25 with blue gel on a white wall as background to give some blue colour gradient.

WB was slightly cool (daylight) even though it was all lit by flash.

It was a normal dining wooden table whose surface has some reflective properties.

Cheers
Alex

Love this! Great color scheme as well. Did you shoot any other color schemes though?

Thanks for providing the strobist info! How did you trigger?

surenj wrote:Love this! Great color scheme as well. Did you shoot any other color schemes though?

Thanks for providing the strobist info! How did you trigger?

Hi Suren,

Just tried the blue gel as I wanted to use the colour of the sky and it was really late at night and I wanted to go to bed .

I triggered with the cheap ebay triggers (which have been pretty reliable to me, btw). The two nikon flashes were connected to receivers but D-lite was an optical slave.

Alex

Thanks Alex for the info. I guess the other option could have been to trigger the SB25 via the ebay trigger and use the SU-4 mode on the 800...

surenj wrote:Thanks Alex for the info. I guess the other option could have been to trigger the SB25 via the ebay trigger and use the SU-4 mode on the 800...

That would work equally well. I just have 2 receivers and wanted to exercise the batteries.

Alex

just trying to work out who is the smarter one here - the constructor or the photographer?

Hats off to your both Alex - creativity is alive and well in Melbourne ( assuming you aren't Collingwood supporters of course )
cheers
Damian

rookie2 wrote:just trying to work out who is the smarter one here - the constructor or the photographer?

Hats off to your both Alex - creativity is alive and well in Melbourne ( assuming you aren't Collingwood supporters of course )
cheers
Damian

Thanks very much, Damian.

Alex