Hamburg 2016Whatever happens in Hamburg goes online!On a Sunday early morning in Hamburg Woody still wants to party.
Woody partied too much in Hamburg. Now he’s sleepy.Hey look Admiral: it’s a tack!I think it’s time I start posting the Woody photos I’ve taken since the Toy Safari in Hamburg….
The last Woody photo I’ll post and that was taken 5 months ago durig the Hamburg Toy Safari. Now there is one month to wait before more Woody silliness in London. In the meantime I’ll continue to post the remaining Woody photos of 2016 (and thus will be done posting photos from 2016 too)
Sigfig and Fabuland
The first photo I took of the Fabuland I received from @herrsm in Hamburg. I didn’t achieve to get the result I expected for this photo but it convey to me a lot of what it was like to be there on Saturday early morning.Coffee TimeI’m almost done with sorting and editing the photos from Hamburg. Now I realize with so many photos (around 40 to publish) it’s hard to decide which one should go online first… So let’s start with a Sigfig photo.
VisionAm I a different photographer? Two months in the North and I don’t feel the same. Photos I took not that long ago doesn’t seem that special anymore, even though at that time it seemed to me they were taken under epic lightning condition. For example the colors of this photo, taken in Hamburg during sunrise, were exceptional to me and a rare capture. But now it just seems that I shouldn’t except less from most photos I take. So I wonder will I ever be able to live somewhere else than in the North? Or will I grow tired at some point of the long golden and blue hours?Yesterday evening we were only three left from the toy safairy in Hamburg, and we decided to take a last photo of our Sigfigs. The background lights are reflections of Hamburg in the water and the minifigs were light painted by Ballou34. Now this great event is over for me and I will spend my day in trains, feeling nostalgia while trying to select the best photos of the weekend (if my laptop battery allows it).
Yoda & Ackbar
Admiral Ackbar likes the new maps from the CMF Series 16.Enjoying LifeRoad work
This was the photo from the Toy Safari in Hamburg I was keeping for the latest Stuck in Plastic contest in case I couldn’t come up with something more elaborate. Hopefully I managed to make a photo in which I put more thought and effort so I can publish this one online.Another attempt at replicating one of my favorite photo of the year with Yoda and Ackbar. This one was taken in a pond where I needed to build a structure underneath the boat to prevent it from sinking down. It was fun to build this with the help of @davirasm but I knew I wouldn’t be succesfull in my attempt to make a photo as good as the with pirates in Tokyo. However I’m sure I’ll eventually achieve to get a good enough photo.Floating away
Dinosaurs
Since I got these Schleich dinosaurs, I’ve had the idea of the Therizinosaurus scratching the back of the T-Rex. But because they take so much space in a backpack they always stay at home and I never took the photo. The toy safari in Hamburg was the perfect opportunity to take it. I’m not too disappointed by the result, considering that I only carried them during a few hours on the first day.RAWR RAWR RAWR, I’m a dinosaur!One of the things I wanted to try in Hamburg was making a toy fly. I decided to give it a try with my Quetzcalcoatlus figure. First with @davirasm, we tried to let it fall and catch a photo. I quickly came to the conclusion that my camera was too slow and that it wouldn’t work for me. Still it was a lot of fun to throw the Quetzcalcoatlus in the air dozens of times. I also asked @shtacyp to hold the figure by the tip of its legs and took a simple photo. I wanted to try to remove her fingers with Photoshop once back at home. Overall I’m pretty satisfied with the result. Next time however I’ll try not to forget to take a second photo without the figure: most of the lower left corner had to be entirely recreated using other parts of the background.
Banana Hug
Misc
This is what happens after a visit to the LEGO store and having Hamburgers for lunch in Hamburg. Thanks to @davirasm for te help with the fry and the raining salt!The photo was taken at sunrise in front of Hamburg’s central station, in a very weird and uncomfortable position.Biking in the streets of Hamburg
In July I took a portrait of Shaak Ti against the cloudy Belgian sky. I really liked the result but unfortunately her headpiece was not set right on the photo. In Hamburg I decided to try retaking that photo by using a shoot-through reflector to fake the cloudy sky. Even though the original photo was framed very simply, I struggled trying to get the same photo without being able to look at the original on location.
Also when I compare the original photo with the new one, I realize how I didn’t take care enough of my Shaak Ti minifig. When I bought her three months ago from Bricklink, she was in an almost perfect condition. Now her cape is all worn out and her lekku prints have faded away. While I like the cape’s worn out effect, I decided to order a new head piece from Bricklink. Hopefully this time I’ll try to better take care of it, and at some point retry to take the photo with the right composition and a Shaak Ti in good condition.A few months ago, when I bought the new Spider-Man LEGO set with the section of the Brooklyn bridge, I felt intrigued by the presence of some Spider-Man-like minifig I had never heard about before. Digging for informations on the web (pun intended?), I’ve learned a bit about the different “Spider-Verse” characters. The one I’ve found the most intriguing/interesting is the Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman. I quickly gave in and bought online a third-party custom Gwen minifig, despite being an expensive minifig. (Actually she might be the most expensive minifig I’ve ever bought.) Since then I’ve wanted to take a great portrait of her but still haven’t succeeded. Anyway I finally decided I had to post the photo I took during the SiP toy safari in Hamburg, even though it’s still very far from the photo I wanted (and still want) to make.Pirate Batman
Contrarily to my Halloween photo, here the mist hasn’t been created digitally. Instead by combining small depth of field and low angle, this white fog appeared in my viewfinder as a result of ground behind out of focus.Skating in HamburgI was quite happy with autumn until the weather came back to its usual rainy mood. So maybe it’s finally time to post, in remembrance of the nice sunny days we had since August, one of the very last LEGO photos from Hamburg.
This one is another photo that required some tricky construction. In order to make Marty and his hoverboard float long enough to take photos, I built some sort of plastic raft. I attached two transparent bars under the hoverboard, and at the tip of each of them a few black plates that come with the CMF.Catching SpidersDewback Kiss
