Bill wraps up his latest comic with All Over Again, the conclusion to a modern Avengers story that’s an homage to some of the classics. You can see the first part at Deja Vu, and check out more of his work at Bill’s Comics.
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This weekend I saw that Netflix added He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (all 130 episodes!), so I watched the first, The Cosmic Comet. There’s a scene in which Skeletor and Evil-Lyn scheme away, with Skeletor’s face filling the left side of the frame with Evil-Lyn visible over his shoulder. Thinking that it would be a good picture to recreate with the Masters of the Universe Classics Skeletor and Evil-Lyn, I tried – but could not. With the extreme closeup of Skeletor, I couldn’t set up my camera to keep both his face and Evil-Lyn in focus.
No problem! With Photoshop, I knew I could combine the elements I wanted from a few different pictures to get the composition I wanted. Best of all, it’s easy. Here’s what I did – you can use similar techniques to put together images that you normally couldn’t with a single shot from an ordinary camera.
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Most of the pictures I take of my action figure collection are for reviews. For those types of pictures, one of the primary goals is to capture the figure as clearly as possible. That often means a generic composition, bright and even lighting, and a vanilla background. But when I’m taking pictures for fun, like if I just find something cool and want to capture it, or if I’m shooting something for a Best Of article, all that (boring) stuff can go out the window.
Here’s the four simple things I try to remind myself so I can take more interesting pictures.
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Bill has shared part one of his latest comic, a modern Avengers story that’s an homage to some of the classics. You can check out more of his work at Bill’s Comics.
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The Avengers movie is set to have another record-breaking weekend, setting the second-weekend record with an estimated $103.2MM. And to cap this off, we’ve got the third and final part of Avengers: New Evil, the latest from Bill’s Comics.
Missed the first two parts? Catch up here:
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