{"id":260,"date":"2020-05-06T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:29","slug":"2020-5-6-wet-lego-8719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Wet Lego – 8\/7\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This night after work I had the idea to shoot inside, and as I have an obscene amount of Legos I choose that. I started building a street corner that I could photograph. My idea was to shoot it with water pouring onto it to simulate it being in the rain.<\/p>\n

I tried a lot of different angles. I put the baseplate up on an acrylic case I had in the shower. I tried shooting in on the bottom of the tub. At first my idea was to fill up a bucket of water, and pour it through a kitchen strainer to displace it through the holes. But it wasn\u2019t enough water, and getting that timed up with the shot was difficult to say the least.<\/p>\n

And different lenses. I tried to shoot it on the 150-600, from the door to the bathroom. I wanted to have to crop out as little as possible of the background. That didn\u2019t work at all.<\/p>\n

In the end I got it with a smaller acrylic case, my lights and camera set up around the tub. And just turning on the shower head and letting it run for a second to let the water really cover the whole Lego build. Then taking a bit of a long exposure so the water would be splashing. It doesn\u2019t simulate rainfall anymore exactly, but I think it came out looking really cool.<\/p>\n

I should also mention the lights, I put one for a front light so I wouldn\u2019t lose the details. But the second one also had a blue gel on it, so I could get the transparent blocks to appear like windows, and I wanted a blue look to the shot. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a series of images for a look at the process. First one was before the water, just trying to get focus and what the lighting would look like. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135mm @135 – 1.0 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Then we have when I tried shooting from the door. Turns out any movement at all, even all the way across the room is enough to jiggle the camera a little. And during a long exposure at such a zoomed in range. Well, you see what I mean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 0.5 Sec – F6.3 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The next one was getting closer to what I wanted. But not quite there with the lights. I needed to shoot a lot brighter and tone it done in the edit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135mm @135 – 1\/125 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 1000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135mm @135 – 1\/80 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 1000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And that leaves us with the above image. Frozen water drops everywhere, lots of splashes. Still getting a bit of blue light, although to be fair most of that came back in the editing process. I cropped it a good bit to cut out the background of the tub parts.<\/p>\n

In the end it was a fun little way to spend the evening. And I quite like the picture that came out of it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135mm @135 – 1\/80 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 1000 – Same as above, just cropped and edited.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This night after work I had the idea to shoot inside, and as I have an obscene amount of Legos I choose that. I started building a street corner that I could photograph. My idea was to shoot it with water pouring onto it to simulate it being in the rain. I tried a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}