Designer’s Notes: Ah, I love it when I’m given way more direct orders. That’s not sarcastic either, this was a lot easier to wrap my head around on what to do than Dreams…but maybe this one is a little too straight forward, even for me. I was going to attempt building a Hexbug Scarab so that it would be something more but that will need to be tried another day. The old stories of the scarabs rolling the sun will have to do for now. But yeah, this one is pretty straight forward.
I know it’s hard to see in the photos, but the head/face isn’t touching the ground and it is fully standing up on its legs. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to photograph this thing. Between the scarab being solid black (like the Egyptian scarab/dung beetle) and the sun being round, brightly colored, and very reflective, I couldn’t find a good way to negotiate the brightness levels. Any and all tips on how to photograph this better are welcomed.
One of these things. It’s got two LED bars that I can move around, angle, adjust the intensity of the light, etc. By default, most of the time I have the light on the lowest setting as everything else is too bright for the camera. Or at least too bright for Lego photos. Though between adjusting the lights in this box and camera settings, this took a couple of hours of testing and photographing.
Assuming the walls aren’t terribly thick, (they kinda look like they are ngl) you should try getting some lights for the front. I tend to like lightboxes with some degree of transparency so light can diffuse through them rather than ones with non-diffused interior light, but maybe there’s some small LEDs out there with some kind of diffusing option.
Unfortunately I don’t know enough about the LED world to give you any clearer direction on that (I still use candles and oil lamps this electricity thing is new to me)
Yeah, they’re foil walls on the interior to be as reflective as possible to eliminate shadows. So normally, where the lights are placed don’t matter a whole lot because it shines everywhere. There is a poor excuse of a diffuser covering them but the help it gives is marginal. But I’ll try moving the light origin towards the front next time. Maybe remove a side wall or two to see if that makes a good difference.
