hey everybody knowing from tested here and once again we have in our studio
photographer Johnny whoa Johnny how are you doing I'm doing good how are you
doing great and you've brought quite a setup today this is a full style Rama
that you've built up for budgets of four components and we're gonna get another
photography demo now what do we have here so we have two different docks this
is made by the very talented Terra foamer they're both you can position
them how we want they're modular this one here is actually magnetized so it's
in an L shape now but you can take it apart and you can have them as separate
docks here same thing with singling with this one they're separate you can
position them however you want and then you can dress it with all these
different accessories you see here there's so much scenic detail what I
love is that you've designed this up to be a one cohesive unit but things like
the crates you know are all modular even the front of the dock the the wood
panels here and so really a big testament to the your collaborators the
people who make these crazy talented though the weather and even you you're
showing me even here the rust on here yeah and the lights yeah they work the
lights are working light it's practical light yeah so that's the extra amount of
the detail that was put into this thing really takes it over the top I mean
really evokes almost like being on a soundstage and movies said yeah how the
art department production is I'd have to build up scenes but you'll have to blow
up the entire scene like there is definitely at an end there yeah but
you're masking it because you're then stacking up composition angles
perspective oh you can hide all this stuff now the subjects today you have a
couple figures on the docks can we talk about some of these cuz I see Popeye and
is from mezco right and I know it's one of your favorites he is yeah he's
quickly becoming one of my favorite figures dude the great sculpt I mean
just the detail on his hand the arms that unique Popeye face yeah
and as we saw last time some custom clothing as well right right so on this
one here we have a custom raincoat made by CJ CJ CM talked about his work before
it's fully wired and everything it's actually waterproof so I got a water
beads up on it and everything it's really a perfect touch to this figure
just takes it over the top you can add another element to your photos when
you're photographing it was especially in a scene like this where you could
imagine him walking down the dock and it's raining and everything he needs a
coat and for those of us who grew up in the 90s of course one of our favorite
characters Noelle yeah in the trench coat so he know Rudy so this is another
CJ thing here he fully tailored the coat got the Hat here the backpack and then
also the bandana that's wired so you can position that however you want to
emulate if it's like windy or something like that
it's just it's the best honestly it's it's wired it's wired as well so you can
position that however to make the Cape with or the jacket look like it's
flowing in to win all that stuff so really amazing because even though these
are static toys static clothing static sets yeah they're one of the things you
do is bring motion and bring aliveness yeah yeah to the scene very cool I know
you also have some animals here just things you found online yeah the little
animals yeah they're just let picked up online they you know add another element
to the photo just like everything else here to piece everything together to add
to your story everything at 1/12 scale you're telling me that even though the
figures themselves and accessories are 1/12 scale you don't necessarily need to
have everything at 1/12 right no no definitely not well we'll let you set up
your lights because there are your lights here and get ready to take a
photo and see how it looks cool sounds good
so Johnny that was two different takes and very different even they're using
the same essential yeah elements that first one you did fog you
had a almost a bigger setups a wider shot lighter shot you did it in
landscape as opposed to portrait orientation right what were you doing to
hide either the edges so basically it helps having a macro because everything
is super tight anyways so basically you know it's even though I'm not that close
I'm super close because the lens so that's a big part of it and then just
knowing what the actual part of the story that I want to tell most is so in
the first shot you see Popeye sitting on the dock with the dog main focus and
then the rest you can start cutting out the fat from there that's usually what
I'll do it okay main focus and then I'm like look there's a too much space on
the right you know and I don't like a lot of negative space in my shots anyway
so I just started cutting it cutting it out and then I'll like get closer or
maybe I'll switch to portrait mode and something that's even like a closer crop
to so that first one it just made sense I kind of wanted to show a little bit of
like the dock coming in like long ways a little bit so you can see like some of
these posts here and and then like some of the backgrounds here but the
background is just it's not as importantly you can still tell kind of
what's going on but it doesn't have to be as in focus right eyes the depth
because you have that macro lens taking nothing in the back and because it's
just so focused lighting yeah you know you're actually stopping down exposing
down and lights are very bright so nothing in our studio
no you wouldn't even know you would you would not know where I was at all which
is part of your selling the illusion that he's on a dock and that's the job
or my job as a photographer that show what's in my head and get the viewers to
see it that way too but I also like is that you're not
Precious about like you said cutting the fat like instinctually if you have an
amazing diorama all these elements I'm tempted to try to get everything in yeah
you just go closer closer closer closer yeah I guess it's just like the
importance of like what it's like what's your what's your focus like what is the
part of this story that you want to tell the most and it really it's like the
the diorama is very important but it's like Popeye was the focus so it's like
Popeye and then that so it's like I want to get him get him where I want and then
I can show you know I can start to show more pieces of this as I kind of you
know compose my shot now for the second setup
you went portrait orientation you were going this way and you set an
arrangement of the the crates in the back was that like this very very
precise or research so yeah it was good yeah it was more like a precise thing I
wanted to be tighter obviously shot portrait so I was closer and it was more
focused on just like his movement what he liked it was this if he's coming off
the dock kind of he's walking that way so I really wanted to just kind of focus
on him and like the direction he was going so this was kind of like an
after-the-fact but I still wanted you to be able to see this to kind of you know
show that it's like okay he's coming off of like you know shipping yard or
something and now he's going to do work or something and what the raincoat
obviously you know you got to do the rain so had to add that effect in there
as well to kind of just top it off that is so cool thank you once again for
having us along on this journey for this photo session you out there can also
follow Johnny on Instagram of all the info else below but thanks for sharing
all these things will help also links to where your friends as well who make
absolutely products yeah I'm the clothing Steve's in the terraformer yeah
very talented artist and we'd love to see your photos out there I know a lot
of people or past videos or coming out of the Woodworks they're all tomography
really awesome I've been getting a lot of messages people saying oh I didn't
know about this and like I sell you on tests and I'm inspired so it's really
cool to hear that and in turn see that as well yeah you're an inspiration to us
so thank you once again Thank You Jay we'll see you next time
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