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My Stylised imagery is created from my photographs, I edit them using various techniques on my iPad Pro. I use a combination of the apps listed below:
Retouch for Clone stamp editing and blur brush
Tangled FX for outline work
Procreate for Brush Strokes, image merging and Layering
Stackables for Texture creation and layering
Photomator for upscaling, denoise, debanding , super resolution, fine image adjustments and exporting of final imagery
Misty morning play before short committee meeting, coffee club meeting, then an afternoon helping a member out with LR and PS.
Yesterday I posted a rant about my shooting technique: www.flickr.com/photos/earl_reinink/51320785120/in/datepos...
So here is the rest of the story. Admitting that I am lazy and do most of my shooting from my mobile bird blind (yes, a 2021 Dodge Ram 2500 Limited - complete with massive 6.7 litre Cummins diesel). I am sure you can see the advantages - and surely the lens sticking out of the window.
As a side note, I know there are some highly opinionated tree huggers who will criticize my Ram power and mileage, go pound salt - don't care. This story is about my bird blind.
The camo over the window is not to hide from the birds, its more an interest in self-preservation. The horse flies up here are as large as a their name sake, mosquitoes the size of teradactal's , blackflies the size of a dinner plate! Camo keeps the bugs out.
The advantage of the mobile blind is that you can cover a lot of area quicker, along with the added benefit of coffee, music and seating comfort.
Sure, the camera lens is big, but how can it be confused for a howitzer? Logic alone dictates that the blowback alone would obliterate the Ram and me as well.
Should you chance to see me on the backroads, just drive on by or join me for a coffee - don't call the police!
Perhaps of use.
Speaking of useful, if you only have a phone and struggle with photographing your stuff properly, have a look at my latest video here here.
Join The Workshop 'n say hi.
Just a little something I thought up while bored at work today. Testing out some techniques for a pretty big build I plan to make. This was mainly to see how a sewage drain would look on a sidewalk/gutter/road. I thought it turned out decent.
Male during mating season
When I was a kid I had a microscope/binocular in the basement of my house and I would look at insects. I was always caught between fascination, awe and pure fear. Especially when they started moving unexpectedly under the binocular. I’m trying to recreate this feeling in these photos but I’m still struggling with macro techniques.
During this odd time, I have a number of plans to make figures and even build, but somehow other things still get in the way.
I still wanted to post something, so enjoy this Dementor with skeleton legs. Not sure if it's been done before. Let me know what you think.
Summoning the old gods...
Trying a few different techniques. The portal "shimmer" is made using a plastic bag from an old lego set. Seen the plastic bags used in a few different ways before, so wanted to try it for this build. Especially inspired by Paul Trach's the Martian build, and Wookiewarrior's old Harry Potter build - although I forgot what it was he actually built, just that he used the plastic bag in an ingenious way, haha! So make sure you check those out. Hope you enjoy it :)
Some of you asked me about the lockers which I built for the Star Wars Crew Room: flic.kr/p/2gShdgj
It isn't that complicated, I used SNOT brackets. The technic bricks are necessary to attach the lockers to the wall.
Hi everyone! Trying out some new photo editing techniques, I hope you like the new change, will see how far I go until I like something new. Today I'm sharing with you the couch by Black Sand which is now available at the Octobers round of Equal10, it's got ample texture choices with a neat little HUD. I was feeling the blue background with the swan cushions so I had used this as my feature accent colour with soft hues of grey, white and black. I blew up the Bernard canvas which really extends the pattern work from the soft finishing's to the wall, giving off an impressive almost wallpaper finish with the deep navy turquoise complementing with the fern print.
Credits;
Build; Magnolia Onsu House - Modified
Furniture;
Black . Sand TrIumph Sofa - Now available at Equal10 October round (2020)
BLACK NEST / Kerska Chair (PG)
Fancy Decor: Mulder Throw Pillow
Fancy Decor: Bernard Print
Fancy Decor: Mulder Side Table
Fancy Decor: Blythe Pitcher
Fancy Decor: Blythe Water Glass (empty)
Fancy Decor: Capsule Table - white
Fancy Decor: Teddi Lamp
14 Fancy Decor: Books and Trinkets
Loft & Aria - Flat dude
The Loft - Morgan Vase
Loft & Aria - Acantha Bird
Loft & Aria - Barlow Vase
Loft & Aria - Gianna Side Table
Loft & Aria - Ceres Pouf
Loft & Aria - Turin Decorative Pillow A
Loft & Aria - Amherst Octo Lamp
Loft & Aria - Isidora Floor Vase
dust bunny. tabletop plants. fiddle leaf branch
Dust Bunny & Con. Florence Bedroom. Rug. White
MudHoney Bent Candlesticks
I repurposed the technique I used in my tri-fighter to create the body of this snail droid.
It took a little time to figure out the perfect number of plates to fit the circumference of the circular portion at the front, but incorporating the treads into the front 'legs' was definitely the hardest part!
The colour scheme is a bit monochrome but it's pretty much what we see in Episode 3. I found some fantastic concept art by Ryan Church that showed glowing orange from the internal mechanics but I couldn't figure out a good way to replicate it in LEGo nor include it in the construction.
The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.
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The last of today's design scraps, I designed this capital of the Corinthian order to top this common column design: www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2693252
Some may have already seen this but I decided to upload this on my main account too, just to share. I've been thankful for a ton of behind-the-scenes pictures of other builders, so yeah…check out my second Acc. if you like it. :))
I've started to develop this technique in 2016 and improved it from time to time. New pieces made it less part intensive and more versatile. The technique allows to completely regulate every gap between the tiles/plates/ingots/clips/etc., to achieve an organic look without being to chaotic.
You can find this and quite a few other techniques on my Second Account/
Regards
Pnoi_APL asked for it.
This is the technique I used for the Skipper Kite and a soon-to-be-photographed MOC, as well.
No, the gap isn't completely closed, but it's real close, so I can't be arsed to find a better-fitting technique that compensates for that tiny slot.
I'm not sure if this has been done before or not, but here you go.
...this proffessional fisherman demonstrates the proper technique of blowing nose bubbles as snorkeling for targets...
Just realized this is possible and wanted to keep it for future reference, as I have no direct need for it now. Hope others find it useful too. This should allow for reasonably decent angled stripes too because you could continue to go diagonal with multiple 2x2s, 3x3s or 4x4s in a row.
There are slight gaps, but not large enough to fill with ½ plate elements. Those gaps can be used as subtle greebling, so it's not that bad if you can make it work for you.
Note I did not have a 3x3 plate at hand but it's not required: the solution shown here is one plate higher than a single 3x3 plate would be. If you want to cover things with tiles, the extra plate height is unavoidable for 3x3 and 4x4 anyway.
You can do this with larger wedge plates too, obviously.
I always like to improve my building techniques, so i tried my hands on a new water technique for my recent build.
In general it's the normal trans tiles + different shades of grey underground -technique, but now flowing.
To get this effect it needs a LOT of tiles and nearly twice as much 1x1 Tiles with clip.
One clip always hold two tiles together.
Using the usual tolerance of the bricks it's possible to bend the plain water into waves.
I promised this breakdown in November…
(For “distracted”)
www.flickr.com/photos/201327294@N03/54031820034/
Full instructions coming… soon?
The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.
Another technique!
If this looks familiar to you, that's likely because there are two other ways to achieve this effect, namely the well-known technique of connecting 1x2 tiles with minifigure hands (which, as far as I can tell, can be attributed to Barney Main) and this technique by Simon NH. However, if you are looking for something that is sturdier than the first option and don't own a bunch of 2x2 corner tiles, this variation might work for you. The key piece here is the inverted 2x2 tile, which can be combined with 1x2 tiles and a simple support structure in back. Rotating the pieces as far as is possible to get a rougher texture helps to distinguish the individual "bricks" in the wall from one another and makes for a more interesting texture. It's also helpful to utilize two colors rather than one. I originally though that this technique would be fairly limited in terms of color, but it turns out the 2x2 inverted tile is available in light and dark bley, tan, and sand green, so you can actually achieve a fair bit of variety with this technique in terms of color.
I'll be posting more techniques in the next couple of days (because a little bit of sensationalism never hurts :P ). If you've seen this technique before, please let me know! I don't want to "claim" techniques that other people discovered before I did. In any case, feel free to use this.
similar to the popular technique I used for this round mirror www.flickr.com/photos/agent_oo7/4894160129/ but with the newer bigger slopes and some 1x2 cheese to complete the curve at the corners
Two Pelicans meet at dawn on a sea wall. While Pelicans are notorious for "dive bombing" while hunting, some Pelicans hunt using the "smarter, not harder" technique; hang around a fishing port during the early mornings and an easy meal is bound to happen
Welcome to Day 4 of Technique Week! To balance out yesterday's complicated and piece-intensive technique, I decided to go with something much simpler today. Today's technique is a dresser using minifigure suitcases as drawers. The suitcases are 3 plates tall (minus handle), 5 plates wide and not quite 2 plates thick, so when you stack 4 of them on their sides, you get a height of about 7.5 plates. This allows me to make the entire dresser 4 studs tall but to put the bottom tile half a plate above the ground, giving the dresser legs, or feet (not sure what to call those). Ironically, even though this is my simplest technique yet, this is the first one where I didn't have enough pieces of one color, hence the black suitcase.
I think this technique is a nice alternative to the more common bucket handle drawer technique, especially for people like me who own exactly one bucket handle.
Click here for more days of Technique Week and and here for previous techniques.
EDIT (March 2020): It took me way too long to realize this, but Halhi pulled off an earlier version of this here. So this post should probably be thought of more as a publicity post for an existing technique than a showcase of a new one.