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Anthony got a big Star Wars™ LEGO™ toy for his birthday, and combined with the various other LEGO™ kids he's gotten before, he has a huge collection of pieces and parts.
This morning before school he used various pieces to build a little fighter craft, as he's done many times before, but today's seemed cute because it seated three characters (in this case, three Republic Clone Soldiers) like peas in a pod.
I'd taken off the cockpit canopy window for those shots; of course, a spaceship has a canopy and Anthony included it, but it made for difficult photography (even with a polarizing filter). Here's what it looked like with the canopy....
He's come a long way since his street sweeper three years ago, or his airplane from two and a half years ago, or even the super cool rocket plane from a year ago.
Very cool! How do you organize your multitude of Lego pieces ? Ours are all mixed up and show up just about everywhere. Does Anthony take part in putting them back? If you have some good suggestion please share. Thanks!
We have a big tub where they all get cleaned up to occasionally. We try to encourage him to clean up after himself, sometimes with the “If you don’t clean it up, I will” stick (where in this case the meaning of Daddy “cleaning up” means “disposing of” 🙂 ) —Jeffrey
I like the first canopy image. Intense reflection on the top tell there is a glass (ok, plastic) canopy on a properly equipped spaceship. I would have liked to see nearer & farther portions of the vehicle a bit more in focus; perhaps shot around f/16 if not laboring with focus stacking.
The problem with f/16, besides the lack of light, is that it makes it more difficult to hide how messy the background is. I’d have to tidy the living room, and my dedication to blogging is not that strong. —Jeffrey
The Zeiss 100 f2 seems to be a recent addition. How do you like it? It is on my list, to gain a little more reach than I get with the 24-70 f2.8. I tried one briefly and the manual focus is OK in combination with the D700. It does render backgrounds beautifully. It gets closer to the look of images from the Nikon 200 f2 than anything else I have seen.
I was borrowing Zak Braverman’s while he was out of town. He had been raving about how wonderful it was, and I have to admit that after really using it for a while myself, I grew to appreciate it. The focus throw is very long, so you have very fine control over the focus. That, combined with a Katz Eye focus screen makes the manual focus a true pleasure. And the results just seem to have a crisp pop to them. And the macro aspect is nice; I don’t have a macro lens. I’ll probably get one of the 2nd-generation versions announced earlier this week once they’re available. —Jeffrey
I recognize that space armor!
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