Elsewhere on the internet I've seen some awesome examples of photographs taken of Star Wars Lego characters. This seemed like the perfect little personal project that I could revisit from time to time. Some of the examples out there have very elaborate settings while others are very simple. Since my Star Wars Lego collection is pretty limited I decided to go with the latter.
Using a black piece of 3/16th inch foam board I set up my Storm Trooper in a position that looked good to me. I knew that I also wanted the background to be black so I used a faster shutter to lower the amount of ambient light. The next step took a couple different experiments with moving the flash around until I got a couple shots that looked how I envisioned. Since I only have one speedlight, I took a couple different exposures with the light in different places for each. This allowed me to simulate a more complicated lighting setup with only one light.
The last step was to composite them in Photoshop. This was actually pretty easy since the subject and camera hadn't moved, just the light source. I simply masked in the areas that I wanted from each photo then merged the layers before sharpening. I look forward to posting more of these little projects as time goes on.
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