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Re: dino-craigo-lego
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Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:52:00 GMT
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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 be great!
- Greg
craig hamilton wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > I'll second that! Way to go, Craig!!!
>
>
> thanks, you guys! i'm blushing!
>
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> > 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.
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>
> what is it with me and tea parties, lately? (Castle World inside joke, sorry)
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
> >
> > --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.
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> 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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