Photographer Recreates Famous Photos with Legos.

Wow, these are just plain awesome. Not only are they well done, but very innovative too. The photographer pays a lot of attention to the detail in the recreations as well. Take a look. Feature Photographer of the Week:

A lego reconstruction of the famous photograph taken by Charles Ebbets.

Original here www.art.co.uk/asp/sp-asp/_/pd–10090221/Lunch_Atop_a_Skys…

Lighting Info: The main light was a Nikon SB-28 on 1/64 power mounted on a lightstand in a shoot through brolly box about 2 feet to camera left positioned slightly above the workers.The background was lit with an SB-24 on 1/16 power with a piece of white sheet over it to bring the power down even more. The idea was to get an outdoor look to the light, which meant a big soft lightsource. The umbrella is about as close as it can be without blowing out the scene at f2.8.

Setup shot here …www.flickr.com/photos/8258165@N07/1615077589

A Lego recreation of Eddie Adams famous Vietnam war photograph from 1968.

Original here … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nguyen.jpg

The original is somewhat more distressing than the Lego version. It’s the smiley faces that does it. Lego firearm from www.brickarms.com

Setup shot here .. www.flickr.com/photos/8258165@N07/2120067891/

Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1938 photograph “By the Marne River” in Lego.

Original here … www.afterimagegallery.com/bressonmarne.htm

Setup shot here … www.flickr.com/photos/8258165@N07/2118590732/

You wouldn’t believe the number of times they fell over! I had to use tweezers to position the picnic plates.

Lego reconstruction of Henri Cartier Bresson’s 1933 photograph ‘Madrid’.

Original here www.afterimagegallery.com/bressonmadrid.htm

Not quite as wide-angle as the original, but hopefully still recognizable.

Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Behind the Gare Saint Lazare” in Lego

Original here www.afterimagegallery.com/bressonbehind.htm

Minor photoshop work to remove the cotton suspending the minifig and convert to B&W.

Lighting Info: Nikon SB-28 at 1/2 power mounted on a lightstand in a shoot through brolly about 1 foot to camera left pointing down at the scene. Foamcore board at the back to get an even reflection in the water (thank you Light, Science & Magic!). Triggered with eBay remotes.

Setup shot here …www.flickr.com/photos/8258165@N07/1674327725/

 

Then we have some very cool and clever Star Wars Lego and Indian Jones portraits.

Lighting was an SB-28 with omnibounce to camera left on 1/4 power.

Lit with two flashes on 1/32 power from the front left and front right into shoot through umbrellas.

 

Lit mostly with ambient tungsten light from above. Fill light from a torch reflected off a silver takeaway lid aimed at his face.

Lit with an SB-800 into a shoot through brolly to camera left. Set at 1/8 power to give enough for f/8.Lit with a desk lamp from above. Processed in Photoshop with Alienskin Exposure 2 (Polachrome - Cool faded) ——-For more information and photos from the photographer here.

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