{"id":2197,"date":"2009-12-16T04:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T04:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/beautiful-lego-in-hoth-photos-have-me-in-total-awe-lego\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T04:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T04:50:03","slug":"beautiful-lego-in-hoth-photos-have-me-in-total-awe-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/beautiful-lego-in-hoth-photos-have-me-in-total-awe-lego.php","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Lego in Hoth Photos Have Me in Total Awe [Lego]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>These are not the biggerest of Lego spaceships<\/a> nor an impossible balancing act<\/a>. It's just Lego Star Wars<\/a> perfectly photographed using a very clever, and deceitfully simple technique. This is how the expert Finnish photographer Avanaut<\/a> did it:<\/p>

In his own words:<\/p>

There's been some questions about how I do the snowshots. I've given some verbal information about the technique, but I guess, a photograph about my setup is needed. So, I made the photos above and below (in the gallery)<\/i> just for the occasion.<\/p>

The setup is simple really: All I use is an old transparent CD storage box, some water and my trusty old A4 lightbox for lighting. For the bottom of the box I have a piece of gray Lego baseplate cut in form and hotglued on a piece of acrylic sheet to give it some weight. Legos float because of all the air trapped inside individual pieces.<\/p>

Anything I want to shoot is then easily mounted on the baseplate and inserted inside the CD box.<\/p>

Photographing \"snow\" in this scale is difficult, and to amp up the challenge I wanted it to fly around. The answer was not to use faster shutterspeed but to slow the snow down.<\/p>

I had a wacky idea to submerge everything in water, it slows down everything that moves. The water also causes light to reflect from solid surfaces in a way that sometimes helps hiding the miniature scale. This is an old concept I've been toying with for ages. For the snow I use ground plaster of Paris—reacted, not unused gypsum powder! It is a passive material that doesn't stick to anything.<\/p>

Lighting is done with the lightbox freehand as you can see from the photo below.<\/p>

I shoot a lot of frames because the \"snow\" is impossible to control exactly. And then some Photoshopping is in order, but not always, sometimes none is needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Simply amazing. Check the rest of his awesome work in his Flickr page. [Avanaut in Flickr<\/a> and Lego on Hoth<\/a>]<\/p>

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