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Re: dino-craigo-lego
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Mon, 7 Feb 2000 07:33:34 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > [...]
> > Craigo has shown that he has mastered the medium. His models use parts
> > in very very innovative ways.
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> I'll second that! Way to go, Craig!!!
thanks, you guys! i'm blushing!
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> > Dinosaurs are not my cup of tea per se but
> > I was just dumbfounded by these, especially the steg, with no less than
> > 5 articulation points in the tail!!! wow.
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> I like 'em all, but my favorite is the dino2.jpg image -- I wouldn't mess
> with that monster! :)
he has a lot of personality. (another reason i doubt i'll ever
dis-assemble him) this is a ferocious shot. sometimes he looks downright
goofy. it's probably from having that basic brick in his head.
> Dinosaurs aren't (normally) my cup of tea either, but lately I've been
> tinkering with Duplosaurs so Craig's dinos come as a very pleasant surprise.
what is it with me and tea parties, lately? (Castle World inside joke, sorry)
> I'd also go totally nuts if LEGO ever released a Flintstones-style product
> line at minifig scale, with half a dozen dinos... :-)
hmm... add islanders to the upcoming dino adventurers theme? i can
picture mini-fig cavemen, though. grey spears and blocky stone axes.
_my_ dinos will be laughing so hard this summer when those sets come out.
i think my t-rex can take theirs in about three gulps, and "grumpy" is a lot
closer to mini-fig scale. from the pictures in the 2000 collectors guide,
their green t-rex looks to be proportionaly the size of a young allosaurus.
> Craig, what kind of cloth is that you've got there for the backdrop? How did
> you get it to lie nicely and curved upwards toward the back? I snapped a few
> pictures today where I used white paper as a backdrop but it didn't work too
> well -- it was too bright and carried shadows too starkly.
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> --Todd
that's a 100% cotton, "periwinkle" coloured martha stewart sheet from
k-mart. they're the _only_ kind that work. (jk... :-) i do like this
ambiguous color as a background for most of my lego models, however. white
can be too stark. it's not in the draping, rather the lighting. the sheet
is simply draped in a gentle curve off the table and pinned to the wall. my
friend, fanny brown is a profesional photographer, and uses three huge
lights, meters, tripods... the whole nine yards. the trick is to get one
light just on your backdrop to eliminate those shadows, and have the light
on your model be indirect, or "bounced" off the ceiling. the result is a
soft light that most of these pictures were shot in.
digital cameras are nice, but there's an atmosphere to film that i
sometimes prefer. fanny has done a lot of fantastic lego photography for
me. i think you all will come to admire her work in the future as i post
more of her pictures. she is very sensitive to her subject matter, even
when it's mini-figs!
later ~ craig~
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| Craig, I think I was going to ask this of Fanny at the meeting, but we had to run due to the weather: What lenses does she use for the Lego pics? Does she use a standard lens, or a Macro? What focal length? If you could find out for me, that would (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I'll second that! Way to go, Craig!!! (...) I like 'em all, but my favorite is the dino2.jpg image -- I wouldn't mess with that monster! :) Dinosaurs aren't (normally) my cup of tea either, but lately I've been tinkering with Duplosaurs so (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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