Reproduce Porsche's iconic scene with Lego

#GetCreativeWithPorsche

By the way, "Get Creative With Porsche" that Porsche provides hints for becoming creative in various things in a series.

The series so far is as follows:

1st:How to shoot Porsche (car) (Mr. Richard Pardon)
The second:Car design: how to draw Porsche 911
The third:Porsche: How to wash a car
4th:Keeping fit with Mark Webber
5th:How to draw a car (paint)

After that, as the 6thPlanning road tripsThis time, what I would like to see here is about "Recreating and shooting a symbolic scene with Porsche with Lego" that was released as the next 7th time.

picture? Also, like the 4th time, did you think that you skipped the 6th time this time? I'm sorry ^^ (I'll skip it).

Lego photography course by British car photographer Dominique Fraser

Now, let's take a look at the 7th time.

This time around, British car photographer Dominic Fraser talks about creating (shooting) images of iconic car scenes with Lego.

Originally, his job was to shoot cars, but he couldn't do that within the current self-restraint period, so he started thinking about shooting his favorite cars in other ways. It seems that it was.

Dominique Fraser, one of Britain's leading car photographers, usually travels around the world to shoot cars, but for this time he's refraining from going out at home. He noticed that he wasn't even creative.

At that time, what caught his eye was Lego, where the children were playing. With this Lego, Dominique decided to start a series on the popular Instagram.

That is to reproduce and shoot a scene with a car with Lego.

Click here for Dominique's Instagram:＠ _fraser73

Dominique said that he had a lot of cameras in his house and he was full of desire to create something, but he was frustrated because he couldn't do anything.

So instead of just doing nothing, he came up with the idea of using a Lego speed champion model to represent a scene he liked in the history of the car.

I think that it is a creative person, as expected, to come up with such a thing, not just to think of it, but to actually try it, and if you try it, try to stick to it. ^

He has been a Porsche fan since he started shooting Porsche in 1991, and he had a Porsche 964 race car before by Mr. Walter Röhrl, a legend of the rally and a Porsche ambassador. It seems that it remains as a very good memory, and it is said that he is the legend.

It seems that Dominique had to use his head to accurately visualize the scene he wanted to capture in order to shoot Lego at his home.

"It was a more conceptual process than shooting a real car to capture the moment."

Then, I would like to take a look at the shooting tips that Mr. Dominique taught me ↓

Reproduce the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the pit with Lego

• After deciding what kind of scene to reproduce with Lego, I will just elaborate on the details and study what it will look like when it is actually shot.

• Looking at a normal photo, what the brain understands from it is a little different from the image actually created with Lego.

• To recreate the 919 Hybrid in the pits, I had to think about what I was trying to capture for quite some time.

• In the actual scene, the grandstand is far away, but in LEGO, it was necessary to bring them closer and consider the focal length so that many things could be focused.

• In the real world, even if the grandstand is blurred, when a person sees the picture, the "blurred part" will be understood by the human brain as "Oh, there is a grandstand". But that's not the case with scenes made of plastic blocks.

• Also, it was necessary to place things in the frame of the camera so that they would look correct. In order to make the scene realistic, I had to redo it many times, and I made a trial and error.

• If you want to make a scene with Lego in the same way at home and shoot it, the angle of lighting is very important, so be careful where the sun is.

• Lighting was especially important for this shoot, so I installed a light that imitated the sun at the top of the frame.

Anyway, shooting in the real world focuses on capturing the moment, which is important, but when it comes to making a picture that reproduces a "certain scene" using Lego at home. It seems that you had to stick to various things that are different from the usual shooting.

Reproduce the Porsche 917K in Goodwood with Lego

• The first thing I did to do this shoot was to make sure the whole set felt right.

• Goodwood's starting line is so symbolic that it's easy to forget the details that make up the scene. I myself have been to Goodwood many times, but I still had to work hard to remember the details of the scene.

• Just make a frame (gate) for the start line and a large bundle of straw (straw bales and tress) to make it look like Goodwood.

• After that, I applied the techniques I had learned to shoot actual cars to shooting miniatures.

• Just like when shooting an actual car, shoot at a slow shutter speed from the camera installed in the tracking car running in front of the 917.

• In order to get the focus properly, connect the 917 and the car with the camera in front of it with a string so that the two can run (pull) at exactly the same speed, and after shooting, use the editing software to do that. I erased the string that connected the two.

• This is the only thing (erasing the strings) in this photo that had to be edited after shooting, and the others did not add any special editing effects.

Reproduce the jumping Porsche 930 Turbo with Lego

• The original photo was taken by Jeff Zwart, who was used in the background of the famous American program Seinfeld, and if you look closely at it, the Porsche 930 Turbo is flying dust in the photo. I understand.

• I really wanted to reproduce it with Lego. That is more realistic. In order to reproduce this dust, I sprinkled glitter on the floor of Lego and shot the glitter in the air with a blower for a camera sensor.

• It is also very important to think about the background of the image. The background in the original photo of this scene was a blurred landscape, so I decided to shoot Lego to reproduce it in the garden.

• The bushes in my garden were so far away from Lego that they had a very nice green background. I was able to blur it well, so I was able to take pictures without clearly understanding the details of the background, just like the original.

• The last trick in this image is on the wheel. In reality, when the car jumps, the suspension goes down, so the wheels go down from the arch. However, because Lego doesn't have springs or dampers, it can't make the wheels go down.

• So I made another "fake floor" to make the tires look like they were down. After that, I hung the car with a thread and took a picture (the thread was later deleted by Photoshop editing). It may be hard to notice at first, but these little things make a difference in the work.

Know the details of the car you are trying to shoot

• If you want to try these shots at home, I recommend using tweezers to put the stickers on. It takes time, but it's worth the effort because you can focus on the details of the car and realize that something is different.

When I was watching it, I often noticed it for the first time when I was told that I was an amateur like me.

For example, I wasn't particularly conscious of the 930 dust that was jumping, unless I was told, and it felt like the tires were down due to the fake slightly raised ground being made in the foreground. I wasn't even aware of it.

But when you look at the pictures of Lego, you can usually think "Oh, awesome, this landscape is reproduced well with Lego!" For you, it creates the feeling that you can reproduce it accurately.

It's amazing ~ ^^

Source: (Official) #GetCreativeWithPorsche: recreating iconic images with Lego

#GetCreativeWithPorsche
1st:How to shoot Porsche (car) (Mr. Richard Pardon)
The second:Car design: how to draw Porsche 911
The third:Porsche: How to wash a car
The fourth: (original)Keeping fit with Mark Webber
5th:How to draw a car (paint)
The sixth: (original)Planning road trips
The seventh:Reproduce Porsche's iconic scene with Lego
8th:How to shoot cars (filming cars)
9th:How to become an esports sim racer