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A recent challenge in a photo group I frequent: Pick a famous photo and recreate it.

I have always liked the power of the Tank Man image, but I was surprised to find that there are several versions of the image from several photographers. I had thought that is was a single image.

Anyway, here is my take:



I only had 2 Star Wars Clone tanks which I modified to look more like real tanks with turrets and added long aerials to mimic the Chinese tanks, although I am the first to admit they are really nothing like the real McCoy. I cut and folded a piece of white shopping bag and found a small black triangle block for the two shopping bags, held in place with blutac.

The image is comprised of 4 images - I moved the front tank back on each take and then merged them in PS. Camera was set to constant manual exposure and focus. X-Pro1, 1/30th 60mm f/2.4 @ F/8, 1600ISO.

Nice shot. Balakov on flickr has recreated amazing famous photos. He is remarkable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/se ... 2602191858


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cool, but the legoman does not look Asian

Softbox has worked nicely here and generated some nice diffused lighting, cheers for the BTS shot.

The kids' collection of Lego just doesn't have any Asian looking hair. We have a few Asian looking faces, but that is not much use. Modern Lego has all sorts of motifs imprinted on the Lego people's bodies, I had to wipe that off in Post, and it kinda looks like Balakov did too...

Balakov's is a nice shot, but he left the black bag in the left hand out, and they were shopping bags, not suitcases! I'm just jealous because he clearly has a better Lego collection than ours Great collection of shots there, after seeing that one, I did a search and found yet another Lego Tank Man, and there I thought mine was original!

Very cool! We have no Lego in our house, sadly our daughters are just not interested I'm that sort of stuff. I was thinking about getting some scale figures used for train sets to try a few similar things. Quite cheap on flea bay but not sure that the quality would be good enough.


Geoff