I’ve been a fan of Lego for a long time. Building, buying, collecting have been huge aspects of it as a hobby, but though I enjoy it elsewhere as an interest, the photography side of it has never been the one i’ve enjoyed. When I’ve been publishing MOCs and build pictures online the photography part of it has always been my least favourite compared to the building and designing itself, and 15 years later as an AFOL, this hasn’t changed. Truth told i’m probably underselling my builds when I’m presenting them as a result, but a quick search on social-media will quickly reveal an expanse of both varying skill and quality amongst fans. I’m okay-ish, I think? Instagram in particular is a hotbed of competition and people having accounts dedicated to just uploading Lego photography. I should probably do a link list of the best ones fully at some point, but these four really jump out.
I recently bought a cheap light box off Amazon to dabble in a bit of it myself and get some sharper images. It’s a simple pop-up box with USB-powered LED lights and a range of coloured backdrops that folds away easily afterwards. I planned to take big minifig cast photos with hundreds of medieval knights and spacemen explorers, but the particular one I bought is a bit on the small side for that and bigger builds, and much better for individual minifigs and pairings- so that’s what i’ve done initially. These are very rough, unedited shots from my phone, but I think the box and set-up has a lot of potential for future better calibrated photos (and posts here, let’s be honest). I might actually seeing about getting a bigger one too for, like I said, bigger builds. At some point I would like to a list about all my favourite minifigs that I own and photos of them but that would require the ardous task of actually sussing them out to begin with. More experiments required!
