Special Project Auditions - Submissions

[Piratedave84]

Take 2!!

Natural light, no flash, reduced exposition time:

[Mister Phes]

These are great Piratedave84!

Welcome aboard! Well, as soon as hidden forum access is granted.

[Legonardo]

Heres a few pirate custom figs, non sigfigs. taken with a high ISO on a cloudy grey day on a cheap camera, I can take better on a sunny day and potentially with my dads new OMD...

here an old (non-pirate) photo i have taken, my quality is normally better

Edited April 3, 2013 by Legonardo

[Mister Phes]

Your non-Pirate example looks spot on, but some cheap camera examples are not too bad.

Although it varies, what makes the difference is whether the minifig is facing towards the light or away.

Still, I think they are passable, but I'd aim for the quality for your non-Pirate example.

Here are some tests...

If facing towards they look good:

Facing away they look a bit washed out, but not too bad:

Side by side comparison:

[Legonardo]

Ok, next sunny day ill be sure to retake them! actually the non-pirate on eis from the same camera, just in better light and a lower ISO

[Mister Phes]

So what about experimenting with artificial light or the flash?

Regardless, if you just position the minifig to face the light they should be fine.

As demonstrated in this example:

[Captain Settle]

May I be considered?

Not my best pics as there was no natural light.

[Mister Phes]

May I be considered? Not my best pics as there was no natural light.

You certainly may and you pass!

[Captain Settle]

What should I do?

[Zeya]

I used my new light shed setup for the first time this weekend. I snapped some photos of a few pirate minifigs close at hand, just to practice. I've also cut out the backgrounds (and other post processing). I uploaded them to flickr. There are 6 of them total. Here's the link to them all:

But I believe the instructions say only to show three, so here are the 3 I would choose:

DSC_0026 - 2013-04-14 at 18-20-38 by ZeyaV, on Flickr

DSC_0029 - 2013-04-14 at 18-24-49 by ZeyaV, on Flickr

DSC_0031 - 2013-04-14 at 18-28-11 by ZeyaV, on Flickr

Keep in mind the ones linked here are scaled down to 800px wide. And flickr only allows up to a certain size, I think (without going pro version anyway). I have the full sized ones here at home. If you guys want the full sized images, let me know. Thanks.

[Mister Phes]

I used my new light shed setup for the first time this weekend. I snapped some photos of a few pirate minifigs close at hand, just to practice. I've also cut out the backgrounds (and other post processing). I uploaded them to flickr. There are 6 of them total. Here's the link to them all: But I believe the instructions say only to show three, so here are the 3 I would choose:

Congratulations!

You've passed for both photography and image editing!

I shall send word to the gatekeeper to grant you access to the hidden forum.

[absolutelylez]

Hope these are OK with you !

[Mister Phes]

These are pretty good!

Access to the hidden forum ye may have...

[absolutelylez]

Arrrg Muchas Gracias ;)

[Demetreous]

This is excellent motivation for me to take a photography course at school... Sadly, my courses were finalized recently, and I did not pick photography. Perhaps I'll be able to in the future... I'm in awe with some of these submissions.

[Mister Phes]

Yep, we're still on the look out for more minifig photos and editors.

The first version of the new Pirate Forum Skin is almost ready for launch! Almost!

[Louie le Brickvalier]

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Edited October 19, 2017 by Louie le Brickvalier

[Mister Phes]

Thank you Louie, these are pretty good!

However, I'm not sure when I'll get back to working on the skin at this stage.

Do you have any Pirate related minifigures from the Minifigure Series?

[Louie le Brickvalier]

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Edited October 19, 2017 by Louie le Brickvalier