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April 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Action Figure Photo Shoot: G.I. Joe Techno-Viper

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

Some of the new G.I. Joe action figures are just too tempting on the store shelves, and I’ve been picking them up here and there only because I wanted to photograph them. I’ve also been wanting to play around with different lighting techniques with some of my toy photos, so here are a few images I took of the Techno-Viper this afternoon…

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

We went to the plant nursery the other day and bought a large flat of flowers. The plastic tray had a great grid pattern, so it was added to my collection of props and was used as the floor in this shot.

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

I had some red battery-operated rice lights that I picked up at Christmas time that I have been wanting to use for a while. They made for neat overhead hazard lights here.

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

I experimented with a red light bulb and an LED flashlight to get some cool purple tones, which accented the figure’s purple outfit. I love a good close-up!

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

Here’s that plant tray in use as a fence, and the rice lights look like tail lights. (Do HISS tanks have tail lights?) The lighting in this shot was a standard incandescent lightbulb, which is much warmer than the LED flashlight.

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

By shining the red light through the hole in the wall, only the figure and its immediate surroundings get lit up with red, which ended up looking pretty cool.

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

I really like how those lights look in the background and I expect to use them often. I also bought a string of blue lights to try out.

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

A night-time infiltration.

G.I. Joe Techno-Viper action figure photography

This shot is one of my favorites since it really creates the mood. The LED flashlight was shining from the left and the rice lights were in the background, otherwise the room was totally dark.

Now that I have some good ideas about how to use the lights, I think I need to introduce more than one figure to the scene to experiment with the depth of field. Stay tuned…

(You can see these images at full size on Flickr.)

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  1. Jboypacman says

    April 1, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    Just some amazing photos!

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    • Brian says

      April 1, 2012 at 4:38 pm

      Thanks Jboy!

      Reply
  2. CT says

    April 1, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    NICE!

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  3. Ashley says

    April 2, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    These are fantastic. I have been getting into toy photography quite a bit, I have been taking some pics myself, BUT not posed pics. I have been doing more with light boxes. this makes me want to try some posed pics!

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    • Brian says

      April 2, 2012 at 10:57 pm

      Do it! I’d love to see some of your MOTU figures in action.

      Reply

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