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Lego Apple
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
Location: Behind the Mayonaise, to the left of the coleslaw, right of the potato salad
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And I just now came across this thread....
I quite enjoy Walter-M8 and his crazy adventures! He's so cute, yet so tiny!
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ZombieSolo
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Droids on ice!
ok, so he's in the ice, not on it... whatever... |
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Joedward
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| On Flickr you wrote: |
| But even in such dire situations, he manages to keep a cool head. |
I think, just for that joke, you should be put back on trial.
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ZombieSolo
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Trying to keep up with my "once a week" promise! Falling behind a little... |
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Brick Fett
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Man what type of camera do you use?
These pictures are so clear and crisp.
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ZombieKenobi
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Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Somewhere near Cleveland, OH
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Don, if your droid can't finish that Chipotle, I would be glad to finish it for him. Cool pictures by the way  .
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ZombieSolo
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| I've got a Canon Powershot A640, but really the trick here is post processing... when I get home I'll load the raw shot straight from the camera. This was a pretty meh lookin pic, but I adjusted the levels and cleaned out some noise and extraneous shadows to get it how I wanted. |
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ZomDarkie
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Yay for post processing. Totally essential if your light source absolutely sucks.
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theZombieAbides
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Location: On the Outer Rim of the Milky Way Galaxy
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Don,
That last one seems like it should be on one of those "Inspirational" posters with a heading like "Challenge" or "Obstacles".
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ZombieSolo
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ZombieSolo
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: |
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That's the most actual LEGO I've had in a pic in a long time...  |
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mammymarf
Joined: 12 Dec 2008
Location: FBTBforums.net
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Neat creepy Alien Corridor nice pic lighting is excellent as always.
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the pic looks awesome in black. Adds more mysterious feeling to it
Don what happened to the J5's? :D they were left behind. Ah M-7's are better. |
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ZombieSolo
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I've still got a J5 or two around here somewhere, and I'm not sure what a M7 is... Walter is a M8. |
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ZombieKenobi
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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That's pretty cool. Remindes me of the Tantive IV...that might have been what you were going for but whatever. How did you achieve the lighting? It seems without some interesting lighting it would look much darker.
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ZombieSolo
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I built up the tunnel with a bunch of those Final Duel 2 corridor sections, with a few gaps and a crossing path in the middle, and at the far end behind Walter I had a white page at 45° that I shinned my light on from above. As a MOC, it's terrible... but as a studio of sorts for a picture, it worked perfectly.
It's based this pic from a similar corridor I made a while back as a simple moonbase section:
But that one was kind of boring so I made a few changes. |
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mammymarf
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry Don :D accidently put a 7 instead of an 8. -TYPO- |
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ZombieSolo
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No droids were harmed in the taking of this shot:
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mammymarf
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:58 am Post subject: |
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| Ahh poor Walter! Is the middle hot? cause if it is you'll have one heck of a plastic puddle of goo!! Awesome pic can't wait till next weeks! (I bet its gonna be Christmasy) |
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JayfoZombie
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| mammymarf wrote: |
| can't wait till next weeks! (I bet its gonna be Christmasy) |
He'd be a little late by then.
I don't think I've commented yet on these weekly pics of Walter. They're excellently photographed and very unique, Don. I like them.
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ZombieFlynn
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I can't beleive I haven't yet commented here, but these are all fantastic. I only wish my photography skills were half as good as yours.
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ZombieSolo
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Brick Fett
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Hehe Nice.
I love these.
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mammymarf
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I guessed right!
Nice one Don :D |
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CheeseBrick
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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I love these, they're so cute, and yet so awesome! Keep them coming!
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ZombieSolo
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mammymarf
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| took me a while to figure out that was your cracked LCD panel |
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preterosso
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Location: Richmond, VA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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Walter does look just a BIT guilty there, I must say. These are all great, with just the right amount of tongue-in-cheekiness. I look forward to many more!
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ZombieSolo
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My camera is still broken... so I stole my moms camera. |
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Jedd the Zombie
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:14 am Post subject: |
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This is adorable and very artistic. I've always loved M8, he's just so expressive even though he's built out of a few simple pieces, perhaps like the WALL-E of Lego. These pictures could easily become an internet meme.
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patientzombie
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Location: Victorville, California
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These are very well done. Especially this last one. I actually amazed how you give scale to these pictures and they are most likely done in very small spaces. Even when I look at the pieces that make up Walter in my hand, and see how small they are, the photgraghy is done well enough to make him appear as if he's much larger. Then you do pictures like the previous week were he does appear very small. I'm asuming that you use the same Walter every time, and the fact that you can change the scale is really... well, I'm afraid to say it... brilliant. You do have definate talent when it comes to this still life type of photgraghy. You do a good job of telling a slice of Walter's life in a very simple way in a single moment.
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