Today’s Bacon | Ralph Savelsberg

by Joe

There is nothing particularly exciting about how I took this picture. I’ve been a LEGO builder all my life and while sharing pictures of the models I build through sites such as flickr has become a major part of the hobby in the last few years, taking the actual picture generally is only a very small part. It took about forty hours to build the model, whilst taking the pictures took little more than half an hour. I usually take pictures of my models on my kitchen table. The background is formed by a blue-painted wall and there usually is plenty of natural light coming in through the window. The camera is a four-year old Olympus Camedia C-470 with pretty much everything it can do itself switched on. It was mounted on a small tripod. Rather than using photo-editing software to make my pictures look better, I take a large number of them and then select the ones that I like best -an obvious advantage of having a model that isn’t about to go anywhere any time soon. What made me select this particular picture is the focus on the gun barrel and the shape of the turret when seen from this angle. It may be obviously built with LEGO bricks, but it looks like a tank to me.

I picked to feature this shot because I thought it was cute LEGO army guys in a tank! That’s pretty awesome. Not to mention the GREAT use of lighting to display the subject. You can do this by using a softbox.