In The Bleak Lego Star Wars Midwinter

Logan Westbrook

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Feb 21, 2008
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In The Bleak Lego Star Wars Midwinter


A Lego and Star Wars afficendo got all inventive to take some amazing images of the wintery planet of Hoth.

Check out the picture on the right, pretty awesome, yes? It shows a rebel pilot arguing with a tech about getting his Y-Wing to fly in the frozen wastes of Hoth. The picture is so detailed, you can see individual snowflakes falling from the sky. But how was this image done? If your first thought was 'Photoshop' you'd be wonderfully incorrect, because this image is largely free from digital trickery.

Created by Finnish photographer Avanaut [http://www.flickr.com/people/40195501@N06/], the scene is actually underwater in a transparent tank, which allows the scene to be photographed without needing a high shutter speed. Hidden beneath the layer of snow is a grey baseplate that the model and minifigs are attached to to prevent them floating.

It's worth checking out the rest of Avanaut's flickr stream because he's got plenty of very cool images for you to peruse.

Source: Brothers Brick [http://www.brothers-brick.com/2009/12/09/on-the-frigid-plains-of-hoth/]


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Eric the Orange

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Very inventive. I'm not an, er, art photographer, so I don't know if this kind of technique is normal, but cool all the same.
 

Kuchinawa212

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underwater you say...
huh. that's pretty cool. Nice picture, turned out great! I love the turret picture on the site that was linked

I'm very happy to see people actual spending time and energy to make a set to take a picture rather then time in front of a computer and editing and cropping it all up on photo shop
 

Gaderael

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He has a looooooot of pictures. They're all very cool. My favorites are the magazine covers.