One of the modern off-shoots of action photography is to photograph action figures in realistic situations. These often involve capturing what appears to be movement and its this sort of shot that I find particularly stunning when done well.
Our own Wotan is an action figure camera Jedi and here's my favourite snap he's done and posted on the blog so far. How he got the illusion of flight I just don't know but I love this picture.
Ace toy photographer Hot Kenobi does similarly amazing things with Marvel and DC action figures and you can see dozens of his pics on the Bored Panda site. Hot's images are a mixture of serious and novelty poses. I prefer the serious ones. My favourite is this fantastic gritty bike skid with Captain America.
Another photo guru is Johnny Wu. You can see a smattering of his superb work on Bleeding Cool. My personal favourite is this Samurai skirmish, which reminds me greatly of happy times messing with Samurai models and line drawings like Sensei Roald Knutsen's when I was a young teenager.
My own paltry efforts have been sporadic and I've not ventured into action figure photography really. I did enjoy snapping my old PINO in a new light.
Do you like action figure photography?
Have you had a go?
Those are brilliant!
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DeleteI absolutely love photographing toys and figures, theres so much scope for experimenting. I have taken a lot of Microman shots and generally try and shoot any new toy I get, especially if they are smaller, as room is at a premium!
ReplyDeleteYou're pretty darn good at it too!
DeleteI remember a toy magazine years ago called 'Toyfare' that had a photo comic inside each issue where the action figures from films and TV franchises had comedy adventures with each other (e.g Star Trek figures would meet X-Men figures). Great fun. There's also the TV series 'Robot Chicken' of course thougn the figures are specially made for the show I believe.
ReplyDeleteI used to get Toyfare on a regular basis, the strips were dead funny. Spiderman was a regular
DeleteI got Toyfare too. And Action Figure Digest. Great reads.
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