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April 3, 2012 By 2 Comments

Action figure photography: G.I. Joe Firefly

Firefly–everyone’s favorite saboteur…

G.I. Joe Firefly - action figure photography

For this photo, I used a clear plastic ceiling tiles for the backdrop, and had some blue Christmas lights behind it, which cast a purplish tone on the figure. I held an LED flashlight directly above the figure to make it look like he’s standing beneath a spotlight.

G.I. Joe Firefly - action figure photography

Here I go using the red light bulb again! Blue Christmas lights were placed behind the HISS tank.

G.I. Joe Firefly - action figure photography

These two photos were taken with an incandescent bulb shining from the right side and a red light bulb from the left.

G.I. Joe Firefly - action figure photography

G.I. Joe - Firefly and Duke

Look out, Duke!

G.I. Joe Firefly - action figure photography

I really like how this shot turned out. I used a regular incandescent bulb on the right side, and a bluish LED flashlight on the left side, and the middle of the figure was left in shadow. The HISS tank absorbed the yellow tone while the figure is cooler, which makes him really stand out. A nice little accident was how the background wreckage almost looks like smoke coming out of the barrel of the gun — totally unplanned, but pretty cool.

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

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  1. Ashley says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:27 am

    I haven’t decided how I feel about those Renegades figures yet, but this lookd pretty awesome though!

    By the way I am beginning to take your advice and am playing with some new “Posed images.” Your an inspiration! http://www.lifewithfandom.com/2012/04/playing-around-with-some-action-figure.html

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    • Brian says

      April 4, 2012 at 11:42 am

      Awesome! Nice job with those Crystar figures.

      Those Renegades figures don’t appeal to me that much, but Firefly isn’t as cartoony as the others, so I picked him off the peg the other day.

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