Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/500 sec @ f/9.0, ISO 200, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)  I recently found another photographer’s 365 photo blog.  The interesting thing is, his entire 365 project was devoted to Legos!  What a great idea.  Unfortunately, his project is over now.  But you can still view the entire project at a LEGO a day…

It was from Dan’s a LEGO a day… project that I gained the inspiration for today’s photograph.  On day 360 of his project, he photographed a LEGO man standing on his head with the caption “Look Ma, no hands!”. 

To me, it looked like he was break dancing.  I remember seeing many street performers in NYC break dancing during my time living and working in the NYC area.  I decided to replicate a NYC street show using the city-scape LEGO set I purchased a few weeks back.

This shot was set up with two lights.  The key light was placed at camera right and fired through a shoot-through umbrella.  I used a snooted flash behind the scene on camera left to bring down the harshness of the shadows created by the key light.

If you get a chance, definitely check out Dan’s a LEGO a day… project.  I find his photographs both comical and inspirational.