Toy Photographer 2.0: How to Take Your Lego Toy Photography to the Next Level

By HowExpert

Do you like photography? Do you like Legos? Why not combine the two and learn about toy photography?

In this second book about toy photography by Pinar Alsac (who is the world's first author on this topic), the main subject of photographs is the world famous Lego toy.

If you have read the first book "Toy Photography 101" and are looking for more, or if you want to take your toy photography skills to the next level, then this book is for you!

Contents include a closer look to camera modes, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and exposure compensation, as well as history on how Lego came to life. You’ll even find a few ideas to get you started.

And last, but not least, included are interviews with Lego photographers from Europe, the U.S.A., Australia and the Far East, giving you a rare closer look into how they started their photography adventure!

Not satisfied? Well, maybe this book is not for you. No, no, I’m kidding, it is!

Read "Toy Photography 2.0" today to learn how to take Lego toy photography pictures to the next level!

• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Jan 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781949531923

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Toy Photographer 2.0

How to Take Your Lego Toy Photography to the Next Level

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Table of Contents

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Preface

Chapter 1: Previously on Toy Photography

Chapter 2: A Short History

Chapter 3: Seeing with your heart

Chapter 4: Creating a balanced composition

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Odds & Grouping

Rule of Space

Focus

Contrast

Chapter 5: The Instrument

Compact (Point and Shoot) Cameras

Mirrorless Cameras

DSLR Cameras

Bonus: Smartphone Cameras (or do I really need a new camera?)

Final Verdict

Chapter 6: The Four-Headed Beast

Shutter Speed

Aperture

ISO

Exposure Compensation

Something to Remember

Chapter 7: Challenge Yourself

Decolorize

Rainbow-ize!

Overexpose and Underexpose

Seeing Double

Good Morning, Good Afternoon and Good Night

Light it up!

Shadow Play

Change the Subject

It’s Alive!

Plan Ahead

Let there be a Story

Captain Redbeard

It’s never enough!

Chapter 8: Ideas for Lego Photography

Minifigures

Town / City

Space

Castle & Pirates

Superheroes

Movies

Collectible Minifigures

Bricks

Animals

Food

Accessories

Chapter 9: Behind-the-Photographer

Aaron Fassbender

Ann Perminova

CJ Simmons

Courtney Baines

Ian James Martin

John M. Decena

Julien Ballester

Ki Young Lee

Lynn Moore

Sean Romero

Shelly J. Corbett

Vesa Lehtimäki

Chapter 10: It’s Over Already?

About the Expert

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