Saburo

Hikaru has arrived! More to shoot for the Thanksgiving weekend.

The first of a few toy deliveries, I’ll have a busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend photographing toys. 

11 hours ago, tekering said:

Great shot @tekering, I especially like this one, so dignified.

On 11/23/2019 at 5:11 PM, 505thAirborne said:

That's a damn good picture Saburo, not one of my favorite Valks.... but now I kind of want one now. 

Thanks @505thAirborne !  My job is done here.

21 hours ago, CharlesXavier said:

If pinoy78 is a Filipino, have to hand it to his/her resourcefulness to get at least 40 pieces of 1S in japan 

I don’t think he got 40 VF-1Ss, he’s posting a scalpers pic to complain about scalpers.

Very nice shots @peter!

New shot of the YF-29 30th Anniv color Ver.  I haven't done this studio setup in years.

I decided to go back to a when I first started with white background and reflective base studio setup.

Got the MB Strike Freedom a week ago, so glad to add it to my small Metal Build collection.

More Gerwalk appreciation.

1 hour ago, Kuma Style said:

Wing Gundam EW

 

Awesome pickup!  One of these days I am going to get around to opening mine.

3 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Awesome YF-29 Saburo!

But do you have the best YF-29 paint scheme of all?

 

(Also the most complicated color balancing I've done yet)

Thank you, it was just a quick shot with the iPhone camera. 

Haha, no I don't have that one. I stay away from model kits because I don't have the time and resources to build them properly.

3 hours ago, anubis20 said:

Just got shipping confirmation for the leg parts from HLJ 

I also got my replacement leg parts shipping notification from HLJ!

5 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Necromancy!

One little thing and I have to reshoot. Can you spot the reason? (Besides color balance since I didn't do any post processing on the first.)

Original:

 

Reshoot:

 

Haha, the dreaded wings not closed in Battroid mode on the VF-1, I have had so many of those.

10 hours ago, jenius said:

Reshooting drives me nuts... It's even worse when doing videos. You'll be stitching things together only to realize you messed up along the way but now you've continued shooting so you have to go back, transform the toy, maybe transform other toys, and redo the video. 

Maybe a 'spot the issue' group of photos would be fun.

I can imagine how frustrating it is for video, I know there is alot of work that goes into them I give you lots of credit on all the work you do for your video reviews @jenius! 

8 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Oh yeah, those damned pilots. I blue tacked mine into their seats so they wouldn't flop around the cockpit.  But yeah, like on my latest batch of VF-4 photos, I ended up reshooting the battroids like 4 times because there was one little thing or another. And even the final product isn't perfect, but it was late and I just said screw it.

Yeah, that sounds pretty frustrating.

I wish I had saved some of the screw ups, but here's one from awhile back. This one is an especially insidious one for me, because I often don't spot it till it's up on my 4k monitor. It's really easy to see on this one, but often it's very obscure. Can you spot it?

 

There's a stray cat hair on the right air intake. This happens all the damn time to me, and most of the time they're next to impossible to see even with the valk right in front of me, as the hairs are very fine. Only on the big monitor do I usually catch them.

A stray hair just randomly floats in on the air from time to time.

And sometimes I catch more than a hair in a picture.

 

Haha, lucky for me I don't have pets, but I do not like dust. Its good I can remove dust in post. Photoshop is my friend.  We should move the Photography/Video discussion over the old MWF photography thread.

Also you have a very nice helper in your photos.

11 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Well hey, I've developed a new appreciation for the effort you have to put into your shots. From getting camera settings right, to painstakingly setting up each shot, then post processing it... then having to reshoot it because you left a panel out of place or something. 

That last one might just be me. 

Hehe. Yes there is a lot that goes into a shot, thank you so much!  Oh yes, the dreaded reshoot.  I have had so many shots where I see a part is out of place or not set correctly or something got bumped or shifted while adjusting the placement of the figure/toy. It can be frustrating if you have figure that just doesn't want to cooperate (Sentinel Ride-Armors), but int he end the results are worth it.

Here is reshoot shot where the first shots of the VF-1A the Max pilot figure shifted so he was leaning to the right when I was placing the Valk.

I was able to pick up another YF-29 Anniversary Version.

Roy

Latest acquision, not anything new but picked up a another YF-29 Anniversary Ver + Super Parts a friend locally gave me a deal on the set.

On 11/1/2019 at 10:06 PM, Lolicon said:

I've never heard that saying before, but you should totally get that Roy and a few magic brownies. 

Ah I love checking in and seeing Saburo's name on the forum last posted, since it'll be something good.You even color corrected the oversaturated blue.

Thank you @Lolicon, you are too kinda. I know I have had quite a few boring posts. ice shots to everyome!

Great shots everyone!