Spandex Stories (marvel heroes)

Just to share my lil collection of masked heroes, I don't keep them exposed as I don't have room for them all, but always happy to unbox them for a shooting or a temporary diorama...

















#superhero #marvel #custom #kitbash

Nice shots. I like the lighting and atmospheric shots of Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Spider-Man and Punisher, cool idea. Has that ever been done in the comics?

Very cool. Since you are at it, you might as well post the cool Avengers party (1 and 2) photos!

Damn nice photos of some mighty nice figures.

You're doing interesting things with lighting.

Thank you for showing us.

Stryker2011 wrote:Nice shots. I like the lighting and atmospheric shots of Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Spider-Man and Punisher, cool idea. Has that ever been done in the comics?

Thanks a lot! I try to get different effects using natural daylight or only artificial, I recently bought a set of LED spots that can change color and intensity, very practical!
Spiderman and the Punisher often come across each other in the comics, pretty sure he found his lair a day or another, I have some memories from the comics I read a few years back but nothing exactly like that...

GubernatorFan wrote:Very cool. Since you are at it, you might as well post the cool Avengers party (1 and 2) photos!

hehe I wasn't sure about reposting all my previous pics and stuff but if you want, then I will!

dadrab wrote:Damn nice photos of some mighty nice figures.
You're doing interesting things with lighting.
Thank you for showing us.

Thanks a lot for the kind words!

Here are some more shots I did this year, trying to recreate the legendary fight scene from civil war...







And here are some very recent shots I did after watching again the Daredevil show on Netflix...

Very cool graphic effects in these photos, too. Some of them look just like movie stills!

Excellent Marvel cast! Those Spiderman & Punisher pics are a blast, and the Punisher's hideout looks great! I keep coming really close to grabbing that Jessica Jones, and she looks especially good in your pics.

But seriously, the Civil Ware and Daredevil/Punisher fight pics are just next level cool. Really kinetic with a ton of atmosphere. You really captured something awesome in all of those.

These just keep getting better and better. Awesome shots and effects.

Great looking Marvel collection and very cool looking photos!

Very MARVELous!

Thank you for posting/sharing!

Thanks a lot guys for the kind comments!

Awesome pics and figures!!

Great Pictures and Effects !

They all look like stills from the movies!

Great figures and great pics too. I love the sets and effects, as ostfront43 said they look like stills from movies. Great work.

Spyder wrote:Awesome pics and figures!!

Thanks a lot! Marvel is really my "niche", it's the only license on which I regularly buy hot toys stuff...

Ephiane wrote:Great Pictures and Effects !

Thank you!!! Much appreciated as I always find your work very atmospheric, even "poetic" at some point!

ostfront43 wrote:They all look like stills from the movies!

Thanks a lot! I confess I watched the daredevil epidsode while doing my shooting, it helped me a lot to set the light color and to pose the figures nicely!

scalawag wrote:Great figures and great pics too.  I love the sets and effects, as ostfront43 said they look like stills from movies.  Great work.

Thanks a lot!!!

Newest challenger just arrived, he is insanely cool, I had a great "wow" effect while unboxing, even if it's not the deluxe version the box is well filled with super cool accessories and props, awesome figure!

That’s awesome! Really great lighting and setup. Did Peter come with that guitar?

Just kidding. He looks bad-ass rocking it!

Damn man, killer pics. Just curious, were the smoke effects done digitally or with actual smoke? If you don't mind me asking, what's your photo set up? What are you shooting on, and what do you usually use for post processing? If you don't mind sharing your tricks that is

That's 'effin excellent.

The posing is some of the best I've seen for that kind of photo and baby Groot on the head stock made me laugh out loud. Even got the feet right in the second photo.

Too cool.

Congratulations on your new arrival. He's worth it, isn't he? Glad you picked him up. And put him to good use immediately!

Stryker2011 wrote:That’s awesome! Really great lighting and setup. Did Peter come with that guitar?  
Just kidding. He looks bad-ass rocking it!

Thanks! If I was cynical about that shot I'd confess the 20$ guitar is as cool as a 250$ figure lmao, I found a couple on ebay with their hard cases, didn't find any use for them until now!

ReverendSpooky wrote:Damn man, killer pics.  Just curious, were the smoke effects done digitally or with actual smoke?  If you don't mind me asking, what's your photo set up?  What are you shooting on, and what do you usually use for post processing?  If you don't mind sharing your tricks that is

Thank a lot mate! I always add the smoke digitally from now on because most of the time it fills the space so fast I don't get the result I want, the figure often gets totally surrounded in smoke... So I did a session shooting only smoke in front of a black screen,took me a couple hours to get all kinds of moves, but now I have a dozen of good smoke shots to overlay on my pictures!

No secrets about my settings, I'm still a noob at that game lol... I use a nikon D3100 (it's old but still solid) and I use two lenses, a basic 18-105 zoom for all action shots mainly, and a very good 50mm for close ups and portraits.
As I didn't know what I wanted shooting starlord at first I used the zoom, on the first sot it's set around 60mm, with F/5.3 but I should have reduced it to F/7 or 8 even to get the guitar sharper, but that would have needed a longer exposure, here I was set on 1/10 sec, it was night, lighting was very low, and I always keep my ISO sensitivity to 400 to avoid any grain in the black.

dadrab wrote:That's 'effin excellent.

The posing is some of the best I've seen for that kind of photo and baby Groot on the head stock made me laugh out loud. Even got the feet right in the second photo.

Too cool.

Thanks a lot!!! Glad you noticed the posing, even if I play guitar it took me a while to have him look lifelike, I got the idea as back to the future was on tv, I searched for some reference pics of knopfler but found nothing good, so the poses are mainly inspired by marty mc fly lol

GubernatorFan wrote:Congratulations on your new arrival. He's worth it, isn't he? Glad you picked him up. And put him to good use immediately!

Thanks mate! Definitely my favourite hot toys grab recently, he is as cool as DD but with so many extras, chst armor and jetpack, alternative head with light up eyes, guns, walkman, necklaces, scarf, baby groot (with a magnet to sit him on starlord's shoulder...)
I couldn't resist to play riiiight out of the box, he is still playing guitar on my fireplace now...

Good looking bunch! I'm not sure how or where I'll display my figures when I move. I'm not sure about shelves as I don't use stands and some of them aren't terribly stable, only moments ago, Indy fainted and would have been wrecked if he'd been on a shelf.

CHEERS!

Rogerbee wrote:Good looking bunch! I'm not sure how or where I'll display my figures when I move. I'm not sure about shelves as I don't use stands and some of them aren't terribly stable, only moments ago, Indy fainted and would have been wrecked if he'd been on a shelf.

Maybe it is time you start using stands. You can always take figures off them for photography. Or use a very very low shelf over a thickly carpeted (or better yet couched) area.

I did like those Mafex stands that Tankgirl used on her Rey, if I can find similar ones on eBay then they might be alright. They're standing on cupboards right now and I might do likewise later, we'll see.....

Just looked on eBay, no loose Mafex and all the other stands are either waist or crotch grabbers and you can't conveniently hide those.

CHEERS!