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Christian Cantrell Creates Scenes Using Legos and Awesomeness

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Last updated on 02/26/2013
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Last Updated on 02/26/2013 by Chris Gampat

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All images by Christian Cantrell and used with permission

Christian Cantrell is the Engineering Manager over at Adobe–but when he’s not playing Bruce Wayne he puts on the cape and cowl to become one kick ass photographer. His latest gig involves loads of softly lit and bokehlicious photos involving LEGOs. The photos depict scenes involving lots of famous characters, like Darth Vader. More of the images are after the jump and can be seen on Cantrell’s 500px page. And in case you’re wondering, Christian shot the photos with a Canon 7D and the 60mm f2.8 macro lens.

“What I enjoy most about photographing Legos is the challenging of infusing as much life and emotion as possible into largely expressionless toys. I know I’ve succeeded when I see that people are touched, inspired, amused, or even offended by simple pieces of plastic,” said Mr. Cantrell when I asked him about the series.

Be sure to also check out Christian’s Adobe Blog, his personal blog, his main website, Twitter feed, and Facebook page.

Via the 500px Blog

 

 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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