March’s Photo Comp 2018 Open!

Let’s see your pictures for March’s photo of the month comp.

BANNER RETURNS!

Missing Action Man Returns - Banner. by Blonde Actionman, on Flickr

Great entry to kick us off with Dal.

"Space Voyage"

That’s a spacetastic picture inntruderr61 for this months photo of the month.

Searching for the new HQ

Great photo Beatlefan!

What a great start to this months comp! keep them coming guys!

Here is my picture for March’s photo of the month.

The Uprising of Gangrene.

cool photo Al

Blondeactionman wrote:

cool photo Al

Thanks very much Dal.

Nice photo Alex!

inntruderr61 wrote:

Great photo Beatlefan!

Thanks Jim, been a while since I entered a pic for photo of the month

inntruderr61 wrote:

Nice photo Alex!

Thanks very much.

Another great shot Angelo!

Thought I'd add a little something to this one sinceclooks like old timer in the wild of yesteryear...ha

Nice one Angelo!

Thank you Jim...picture needed to look the part as well as the figure...

I'll toss my hat into the ring. This is entitled "Under Fire"

Fantastic entry blackbrazen

Wow...just wow!

Need to know how you did that...so crisp and clear ...please share if you can how

Buildadiorama wrote:

Need to know how you did that...so crisp and clear ...please share if you can how

Thanks for your kind words! I took the photo in the park with my Sony a6000 and an old Minolta 50mm lens. I just found a small old tree stump that looked interesting and positioned the guys. I took the photo with a wide aperture to make the background blurred. Then I took the photo into Lightroom and did some simple colour adjustments to make it look a bit darker and kind of dramatic. This is what the basic pic looked like after that:



Then I just found some images of smoke, sparks, a few explosions and bullets flying and added them as layers in photoshop. I changed the blend mode to "Screen" for most of them, adjusted the size and position, and then finally added a mask to erase the bits I didn't want. It sounds complicated, but honestly, it was less than 40 mins work sitting with a beer and some crisps!

I've been really inspired by some of the amazing people posting toy photos on Instagram, but there isn't anyone doing those kind of cool shots for Action Man, so I'm going to have a go. I'm not super happy with my results yet, but it's a lot of fun trying!

Thank you very much for all your detailed explaintion. I don't know too much about photo shop. I do little bit only with my iPad but works out pretty good...this on the other hand is very professional. Can't wait to see more. Just raised the bar,..in a good way...