Amazing Photos Make Action Figures Look Like Action Movies

When photographer Matthew Cohen takes pictures of his toys, he doesn’t simply line them up on a shelf. He makes them come alive.

On his Instagram account shootingthegalaxy, Matthew takes unimaginable photographs of motion figures staged in photographs that make them appear to be they’re in the course of the film/TV present they initially got here from, particular results and all.

Whereas they appear to be they had been taken on different worlds, most of Matthews photographs had been truly snapped on his kitchen desk, lit by desk LED lamps and a few telephones propped up with their vibrant screens offering some extra ambient lighting.

As for results, apart from the lighting and a few primary stuff like including lightsaber glow, he makes use of Environment Aerosol, aka fog in a can, to assist deliver a little bit temper to a few of the motion photographs, and whereas a few of the scenes are shot in dioramas, others are simply in entrance of his TV or monitor (just like the one beneath).

And his favorite? “My absolute favourite that I’ve taken is the Samurai Stormtooper within the boat”, Matthew tells me. “Plenty of instances you’ve gotten an thought in your head and it simply doesn’t fairly translate to {a photograph} for no matter purpose. And so that you both find yourself making modifications or it simply doesn’t occur in any respect. However that one was the right transition from creativeness to {photograph} and it was removed from a easy shot.”

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“I discovered this small reflective pond in Central Park sooner or later and instantly pictured that determine on a ship floating out in the course of it. A 12 months later after commissioning a pal to construct that boat for me from scratch (He likes to construct stuff however had by no means made a purposeful boat earlier than, not to mention a fairly correct conventional Japanese one. So massive props to him), I used to be again in Central Park snapping footage that finally got here out precisely how I imagined it them.”

Under you’ll discover some extra unimaginable instance of Matthew’s work, and also you’ll discover waaaaaaaay extra at his Instagram.