Thus revealed, the creature buried its nose in the tire-tilled soil...
April 28, 2008
Testing fun with images...
Category: Photo … Toys

So after nearly six weeks of waiting (or maybe less, but it felt like at least as long), the additional dual background for my light tent arrived towards the end of last week. I finally broke it out yesterday and lost a good seven hours photographing and repositioning and photographing action figures -- time truly flies when one is shooting little plastic people! -- and continued with the experimenting today. Whereas shooting with the grey background was relatively easy and unproblematic, the new black background (much like the old blue background) shows up very bright for some reason, which meant that I had to fool around with a bunch of settings I'd never previously touched in order to limit the camera's light intake. Very strange.

Anyway, here are the best of the results. I'm also trying out a new plugin for displaying the larger versions of images, which you'll see when you click on the smaller photos below. I'm not sure if I'll keep it (I'm not the biggest fan of javascript and fancy effects, hence my choice of this simpler plugin over the Lightbox JS-based variants), but let me know what you think.

The Scooby Gang, five strong!

Is this the first time that I've featured Buffy figures on Wesoteric? I forget. Anyway, I've had Spike, Angel, and Willow around for ages, but Cordy and Xander are new! Well, kinda. I got a Cordy for $4.88 a couple of weeks ago with intent to use her as Lois Lane, but a) she was far too tall compared to my previous Superman figure and b) I found an actual Lois Lane figure (albeit a super one) soon afterwards, so she got set aside. Also, her arm had broken right out of the package, which was no fun. But then, this past week, I came across the same Cordy and Xander for $1.88 each, so I picked up two more Cordy figures (one of which is seen here, and yay her arm did not break!) and a Xander. I've always thought this Xander looked really weird, and I'm not the biggest fan of the character anyway -- he's kind of a dick -- but $1.88 is pretty tough to beat.

Now all I need is a Buffy, eh? Not to mention a Faith, an Anya, maybe one of those superarticulated Willows...

The original 7 of the DCAU Justice League... minus two.

I really, really like that Superman figure. Anyway, five down... two to go!

Superman's rogues are quite outnumbered.

Did I mention how much I like that Superman figure? And here he is surrounded by friends and foes -- note that I have much more of the former group than the latter. Darkseid eyeing Jimmy Olsen is deliberate, btw.

The Legion of Doom continues to grow...

And with the addition of Black Manta and a proper Scarecrow (as opposed to that huge scarecrow from some other toyline), my SuperFriends Legion of Doom now has five official members. Eight more to go!

And that is all for now. 🙂

-posted by Wes | 9:07 pm | Comments (2)
2 Comments »
  • De says:

    I see you found the new Black Manta figure. Very very cool. I went ahead and bought the set but haven't opened them yet. Will you be getting Sinestro from the next wave for your Legion of Doom?

  • Wes says:

    That's the plan, my man! Actually, I'll probably end up getting all of the next wave, as I want just about everyone in it -- and Grundy will add yet one more member to the team. I'm not sure whether I'll order it or wait for it to show up on the pegs (I'd much rather have the Sinestro Corps Sinestro than the classic version), but we'll see.

    In the meantime, I still need to find Harley Quinn from the current wave! Never did come across a good-looking Red Tornado from the previous one, but I'm not bitter about it or anything. 🙂

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