Anyone using flash for their toys shots? I am not talking about the pop up one above your lens. Can someone dissect this shot and figure out the lighting used:


Cobra Trooper by D Julian, on Flickr

Hopefully we can get a dialogue going on lighting techniques. Lighting gives you more bang for your buck than any other piece of photography equipement you can buy. After all photography means: "painting with light". Lighting can be outrageously expensive and can also be done on the cheap with home-made set ups. Dramatic & creative lighting can overcome lack of props and sets, low end cameras and other excuses people use for not taking the shots they want to take.

Getting great toy shots is more than just taking a rubbermaid of figures and vehicles out in the yard and setting them up and taking 100 shots hoping that one or two will come out. I hope I am not offending anyone but I would like to see JoeDios get back to what it once was: full of amazing, well thought out and executed shots. Anyone interested in talking about light, lets do it. Maybe we can get other discussions going on other techniques, equipement and set-ups as well. After all JoeDios is as much about photography as it is GI Joe!

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