BTS Toy Photo Shorts: Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek, toy photography. See the full video here: https://youtu.be/yIhPoxg5VTY

Shot using Hasbro's The Black Series Death Trooper and Chopper (C1-10P).

Inspired by Star Wars Rebels.

Hello and welcome back to another behind the scenes toy photography video. Today I'm going to show you how I made the setup for this photo which I've entitled Hide and Seek.

I'll also show you how I edited the image in Photoshop!

For this shot I used two Death Troopers and Chopper from Hasbro's Star Wars The Black Series.

To start my setup I placed Chopper front and centre, and used various small props to build out his hiding place around him.

Next I used some sand on my ground surface to cover up these figure stands, allowing me to pose my troopers.

With the figures in place, I used a pair of cinder blocks to build the walls of the tunnel. I placed a baking sheet in the background and then used this great piece of cardboard I got in a meal prep box. Placing my light far above the cardboard gave me this nice spotlight effect underneath.

I took a pretty long exposure so my starting image here was already reasonably well lit.

I started my edit as usual, adding adjustment layers and a vignette to enhance my image. After that I used the pen tool and brush tool to create a glowing eye effect on my troopers.

To make chopper stand out a bit more, I did some dodging on him, really brightening up the midtones.

After looking at my figures again, I realized that I had messed up the lens shape of the troopers visors, so I redrew those real quick.

So once again here's the starting image. And here's where we ended up.
Music:

Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
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