This one didn’t really take a whole lot of time to shoot. Although I did spend some time trying to come up with possible compositions to capture this week’s theme. Was pacing around the living room when I noticed this little fella sitting on the display shelf. I’m not sure when or how did I come in possession of this unique toy. Continue reading
Pardon my non sequential postings for a few weeks as I attempt to catch up and get back on track with my weekly assignments for this challenge. I chose to begin with this theme since I had a ready prop that helped me realise a composition I had been envisioning.
As a birthday gift(s), the wife presented me with two scale model action figures, Batman and Iron Man. You’ve probably already seen the Batman figure in one of my earlier submissions. This time around I get to use the other action figure, Iron Man.
The weight and scale of this particular action figure require me to keep its limbs in a position that makes it seem like Iron Man is seated. The design of the model is such that when he is kept in this position it almost seems like he is about to fall backwards. Seeing this particular posture made me consider using the action figure as a prop for the week’s theme – Backwards.
The scene that I tried to setup was to emphasise that sometimes Heroes also fall back when the odds are against them. I did toy around with the idea of using Photoshop to replace the rather dull landscape with something more fiery and thrilling. But I’m still learning the art of PhotoShopping and wasn’t keen on pouring in hours of trials and errors for that look.
The original action figure has a gold and yellow colour scheme for the Iron Man armour, which did not look right to me since I’ve almost always seen him in the trademark Red and Gold armour in comics and movies. So I decided to do some post processing in Lightroom to correct the colour renditions and make them more in line with what looked right to me.
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