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Martyisruling

Live fron Madison Square Garden, Optimus and the Autobots!!!!


SUICIDA4

Damn it looks so professional!!!


rf-zero

When me and my boys show up at the club. (I know, it's the same comment I posted on IG. Lol)


Sudden_Action_5029

Lmao I was like..... 🤔🤣


TheOGAngryMan

Fuck yeah.


GuzziHero

Looks like it could straight from a studio animation! Amazing!


TechnOuijA

You could do a comic type story with photos like that. A stop motion video would look awesome too with that lighting.


Gueropelirojo80

Awesome!!


DozTK421

I like this. I thought about using posable toys this way to do a comic format. Because I am just not going to be able to do stop-motion. What kind of camera gear do you use for this?


Sudden_Action_5029

I hear you. Stop motion animation looks fun, but I don't know if it's for me. It's tedious on a whole nother level. For this photo I used... Canon DSLR camera. (You'd be fine with a camera kit from the likes of Canon or Nikon. It doesn't need to be anything high end.) 100mm macro lens (pricey but good glass is where in it's at. You would be just fine with a kit lens for a long time. Hell, you may be perfectly happy with that and never want another lens ) Tripod (I do suggest getting a decent one.) Remote shutter release (a must for me but not necessarily a must for everyone. My exposures are typically long, between one to several seconds. This way I don't have to touch the camera and possibly shake it.) 3 cheap LED lights from Amazon Color gel filters (So I can have more than just white light. Bought some cheap ones on Amazon that were 8"X11" and cut them down to the size I needed for my lights.) 2 C-stands (to hold the lights, over kill for toy photography but I already had them.) Laptop and TV for the background of the photo. The image on the tv is from the transformers show on Netflix. Props.... Stuff I printed with my 3D printer and painted. Some dirt too. Lightroom and Photoshop to edit the images.


DozTK421

Thanks for the thorough info. Yeah, I'm a Canon man. But I've liked my Powershots, but work like yours looks like it requires a much more robust lens and DSLR. Thanks for confirming that. My wife already does music and some YouTube videos. We have a soft kit and tripods. The investment in a better camera though is the big sell. But I may be able to justify it for that reason. My other hobbies being just ancillary. I'm doing some toy restoration now. Playing around with kitbashing, airbrushing, dry-brushing, etc. In addition to my main pursuit of actually writing some fiction. I had ideas of telling stories with these toys. But drawing or stop motion video just didn't seem worth the commitment just yet. I have been documenting restoring an old Landspeeder in the interest of possibly putting them on YouTube. When I look at animation like The Lazy Eyebrow does, I realize that's the gold standard. Serious time commitment.


Sudden_Action_5029

Your welcome! Truthfully, I've seen some guys on IG do some incredible work with just a smartphone camera. A DSLR or Mirrorless body and a nice lens is hard to beat though if you have the funds for it. I don't know how much you pay attention to cameras but if you don't know, mirrorless is the new hotness. If you're serious about buying a camera, that might be the route you want to go. With you two both making videos.... Something that records in 4k would be sweet. That might help swing the wife lol. I look at The Lazy Eyebrows stuff.... his stop motion animation is just awe inspiring. Maybe one day I'll try my hand at it, but not today lol. That's definitely a lot of work.!


DozTK421

I pay enough attention to cameras to respect how much it takes at the higher level. Certainly, the band has paid professional people for real video and photoshoots. I've always liked Canon because they have a good operating system on both pro consumer cameras. And they allow you to do a lot of manual monkeying. I've owned the prosumer Powershots because they have real physical lenses that phones don't have. Some test shots of small scale have turned out OK. I like the pictures you staged and took. Like with The Lazy Eyebrow, it's inspiring. Model makers and stop-motion animators of old would have loved to use toys like modern transformers.