THE PUNISHER - TOY PHOTOGRAPHY

Published 2021-10-06
It says Punisher but it’s really an exercise in lighting.

I keep telling people not to ask me to shoot unmasked action figures, as the plastic faces never convincingly look like the actual person, or any human for that matter. Masked figures afford more latitude. However, the face sculpt on this figurine, as small as it is, was actually pretty good, and became a testament that effective lighting casting the right shadows and contrast could make the face look like a real person. And as my interest is more in the visual effects aspect of shooting miniatures rather than the somewhat strange (to me) grown adults-collecting-and-playing-with-toys aspect, reality is more important to me. My angle has always been to make the images look like they are a still from a movie (which probably makes me something of a happy pariah within the echelons of toy photography, where the toys still look like toys).

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Music: Raging Streets from Youtube Music Studio.

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