📖 TIPS: We've invited our community member m1brickcars to share some advices to take realistic LEGO cars pictures. Here's the last installment!
Today I want to talk about special effects and posing. These are very important factors for lego photos, especially if you want to photograph a vehicle and make it look like it is moving.
Most of the time, to recreate a moving effect you need to work in post production.
But sometimes this effect alone is not enough to give the illusion of movement, you have to rely also on posing.
The vehicle must point in the direction of movement. If you don’t know which could be the best pose, try to play with it a little bit then stop when you find the “cool” position you were searching for. Don’t forget that every car has its pilot, so it’s also very important his expression and where is looking. If you want to recreate a drift, for example, making the figure look toward the spinning wheel could strengthen the illusion.
If you are into details, like me, you can add the burnt marks, useful as indicators for the direction.
The smoke is another essential part if you want to give a touch of realism to your picture. For this I suggest to use a well known trick with a nebulizer, paying attention to the direction of the smoke, which should go against the car.
In this scene taken from the movie "The Batman" I had to use real flames to reproduce the scene of the film as faithfully as possible.
You can see the flames in the background but also the warm reflected light created by the flame itself.
These effects give the photo a unique look, very complicated to recreate in post-production. For this type of photo, however, it takes a lot of attention to use the flame, remember not to use it indoors!
Thanks m1brickcars for these tips! If you want to read it all, head to our blog!
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