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Using the photo technique challenge to inspire & challenge me to see what I can do with out apps and Photoshop.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Flower Board Crafting Technique
During traditional festivals or celebrations, our attention is often drawn to the large and colourful flower boards which bring a festive ambience to the events. At the same time the flower boards represent the respect of the sender for the recipient, as a reflection of etiquette and social relations.
A flower board is composed of supporting frames made of bamboo strips and iron wire. For flower boards used for greetings, the main function of the characters on the flower boards is to send such congratulatory messages. Masters usually prepare a draft design of the flower board for confirmation of the customer’s requirements. The characters on the flower board are painted on cardboard paper. Achieving a match between the colour of the characters and that of the background is of utmost importance in flower board crafting. For example, characters in an orange or red colour are matched against a green background and bordered with a black or white outline. Gold paper is sometimes placed between the characters to make them stand out even more.
Masters draw patterns of dragons and phoenixes on the components of the flower boards. Although flower boards are usually used for one-off events, some components are reusable after repair, given that there is a centern standardisation in terms of the sizes of the flower boards.
Here's what lies beneath my herringbone pattern.
Notice that the studs form a rotated square grid, slightly more than 2x2 apart. It's quite a good base for various patterns with mortar.
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
I've tried a mix between Jelle Schuurmans's technique and Rom Lightpainting's technique.
A tutorial is available : lightpaintingblog.com/the-singularity-effect-tutorial/
This is an idea I had last year and have used it on several MOCs since. I keep meaning to get around to posting some pictures of it, so here it is. The technique uses four cheese slopes stuck in the corners of a 2xn plate (works from 2x3 up to 2x10). Then stuck into an equivalent sized brick. It also works for a 2x2 if you use just 2 cheesers. It is very clutchy, so no worries about your MOCs coming apart.
My second picture of the most distinctive Slovak St Mark's fly species, the same pair as on the previous photo.
A photo taken with my older camera using my old technique - small focus distance (5 cm) and holding the stem in one hand, the other hand with the camera resting on this hand as well.
I finished a design video for the *cockpit* of my custom LEGO spaceship, Astrea. It’s at https://youtu.be/XTm9-6GDWlo.
I tried a new, digital approach/format for this video because I'm currently away from my physical models. (I plan to create some additional videos for other parts of Astrea in this format, and I'll be releasing the full digital file. Kindly stand by!)
Additional materials (photos, background, digital design) for Astrea and my other LEGO creations are at https://www.galacticplastics.com.
A solution I found for a 180 degree reversal in a 1x3 brick package. I like the symmetry and the fact that there are two studs on each side. I used this in www.flickr.com/photos/96739476@N04/14201282524/in/photost....
I reckon I've come up with a new building technique using a 30134 - Staircase 7x4x6 as rafters. I apologise in advance if this technique has been posted before.
The advantages of using a 30134 - Staircase 7x4x6 piece in this context is allowing the roof to be structurally stronger and they also represent the wooden rafters that go diagonally across a typical roof. Follow the link below to see the breakdown of the technique used in this MOC.
Roof Support (Rafter) Technique
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I put up a tutorial on InnovaLUG's website about how I made the roof for my Age of Empires II Market creation.
Read the tutorial on the website:
innovalug.com/post/74/weathered-shingle-roof-tutorial
Because it's not a step-by-step kind of technique, you just experiment with the connections and with how much of a weathered look you want until you're happy with the results. The post on the website goes into more detail about the process if you're interested.
The fun of exploring London for the upteenth time is finding new places. Some of the new buildings have public areas that provide viewing areas. Today, I had breakfast on the 35th floor of 20 Fenchurch Street (the Walkie Talkie) and saw an after dinner sunset from the rooftop garden at One New Change. Both viewpoints were free to public. At One New Change, there were quite a few people at the top for a Friday night (with Andy Murry playing on a big screen TV), but since we didn't care if we had bar access, we walked right into the elevator. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my travel photography blog at Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
A Frame within a frame composition of the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
Here is a blog I wrote about framing in photography
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Some of my Taj Mahal Images on Getty
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From time to time, we will use this space to explore some of Eggbert highly doubtful camouflage techniques.
So today, Eggbert will tell us a technique that is so good it promise to bring tears to our eyes...
Technique #03:
"The White Onion" disguise.
Sure, the company may stink, but it also suppose to keep you healthy, and most important (in his case) alive!
Oh, and by the way, you will need a wig for this one.
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My entry for round 1 of The Middle Earth LEGO Olympics over on MOCpages. The category was to create a build based on one of J.R.R Tolkien’s poems or songs. Here is the one I chose:
Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall,
We must away ere break of day
Far over wood and mountain tall.
To Rivendell, where Elves yet dwell
In glades beneath the misty fell,
Through moor and waste we ride in haste,
And whither then we cannot tell.
With foes ahead, behind us dread,
Beneath the sky shall be our bed,
Until at last our toil be passed,
Our journey done, our errand sped.
We must away! We must away!
We ride before the break of day!
I tried to portray the 3 main themes of the song: hearth and home, travel through the wild, and Rivendell.
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.
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I decided to give Clemmy a little makeover and here is her new crazy wild hair.... I hope you like her :D... if anyone would like to know how to do this then please do leave comments or feel free to message :D
Thanks for the visit :)
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.
Like everyone else, I've mostly been stuck at home for the past few weeks. So I've been digging through my archives a lot. This Dead Horse Point sunrise photo is from a trip to Moan in the spring of 2012. It was taken with the Canon PowerShot G1X, one of the first 1-inch sensor cameras to hit the market. I was really impressed with the camera's image quality. After reprocessing this photo with current software and better technique, I'm still impressed.
One of our favorite roof techniques!
Some facets of this have been dabbled in before by various builders, but we think this is the first time the staggering of individual tiles, the offset of every other row, and the clean yet random joint at the top has been done. Anyways, we hope you like it, but feel free to tag or mention so we can credit people who've done various versions of this before. :)
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Using circus techniques, pyrotechnics, and video projection to create the visualization of liberty and the joy of flying, GLOBE is an alienating, fairylike spectacle full of symbolism.
Established in 1991, Close-Act is an international street theatre company that combines various disciplines of performing arts, like dance, music and circus, with stunning visual representations.
The company performed mostly in Europe in the early years, but now present their shows and acts worldwide.*
*http://nightfestival.sg/programmes/detail/globe
I made a water tower for an upcoming build and used this technique to make it. Not sure if it's new/ of use to anyone but thought I'd post it anyway. Would work for stairs too?
Lately I find myself wanting to experiment with HDR techniques gradually less ... I try to use all other available tools in order to successfully bring a captured scene into life, to make it presentable and to tell you the truth in most cases I'm not at all disappointed by the final results ...
I use multiple layers' image processing techniques and I also use masks in order to blend more than one captures together ... The above scene frame is a working combination of two captures taken from the same place but within a ten minutes' interval from one another ... The Flamingos' shot was taken first, the clarity was fine but I was not particularly happy with the background ... The second shot was a 2s long exposure and it came later, when "alas" my approach to the scene made the flamingos' fly away ... Thank God we live at a wonderful digital era ...
This kind of processing places extra meaning to Ansel Adams's words ... "You don't take a shot ... you actually make it !!! '' ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, f 10, ISO 125, focal length 18 mm, manually adjusted focusing, shutter speed 1/20 s (first shot), 2 s the second one, Auto white balance, PATTERN metering mode, no flash, use of tripod in both captures ...
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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.
BTR-80
The BTR-80 is a Soviet 8x8 wheeled Armored Personnel Carrier introduced in 1985. It replaced its predecessors the BTR-70 and BTR-60, and was used in many conflicts globally. It first saw combat in the Soviet-Afghan war, where it proved very effective. It has been used in virtually every major conflict since, and is still used by Russia and almost 50 countries worldwide. And currently, the BTR-80 is being used in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
More than 5,000 units have been built since it’s introduction. This model is configured with the 14.5mm KPVT machine gun, and more recent variants such as the BTR-82A are equipped with a 30mm cannon.
This specific model depicts the BTR-80 as it would be used during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan during the mid-80’s. It is built in 1:40/45 scale. The turret of the model is inspired by Tiger131 on Instagram and his use of a unique dish piece for the turret of his BRDM 2, and Henry (Brick Battlefield) for the technique he used for the swim vein on his BTR-70. Other than that, the model is completely my own design.
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.
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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So this is my final entry to summer joust this year! I've already posted pics of the temple and the outer wall separately but this is the final scene, in which I also added a tower. It measures about 80 studs wide and about 100 studs deep. Hope you guys like the complete scene! Please have a look in the album to see detail-shots of the separate sections :)
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/
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