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Creative => Photography & Graphics => Topic started by: Little Jo on June 08, 2007, 23:23:10

Title: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Little Jo on June 08, 2007, 23:23:10: (http://www.jr-x.de/playmobil/projekte/photocompetition_2007-06.jpg)

I photo project which I had in mind about two years and finally managed to realize it. The idea was to give an insight into what should be familiar to (probably) everybody being addicted to these little plastic figures: So you can see Playmobil items, catalogues, the collector guides, Playmobil books, for sure a lot of boxes/sets, shipping boxes, on the computer monitor my Web site's Playmobil homepage as an representative for any Playmobil-related Web site (actually I have in real live a monitor attached to my notebook so that I have a split screen which doubles display area), and finally the PlaymoFriends calendar as a hint to the board and with this to the Playmobil community. The white rabbit is a "mini-me" of one of our six real live house rabbits.
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2007, 23:48:47: Wow, that's an amazing photo, Jochen, both in it's quality and also in its subject matter and detail. The quantity of items all to scale, the detail in the, for example, computer screens and boxes is unbelievable. (And do I see the simplified backdrop you spoke of making through the window?)

The curtains look very interesting - surely, Playmobil but not originally curtains?

And I've just saved the image and then looked at it on a larger scale, and there are miniatures of the Playmobil Collector on the desk top!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Tiermann on June 09, 2007, 03:11:16: I love that Jochen :love: it's really wonderful.
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 04:52:54: Thanks for the kind feedback :D

Quote from: playmofire on June 08, 2007, 23:48:47
(And do I see the simplified backdrop you spoke of making through the window?)

Yes and no. It's the same I used for the Trailer for the Rescue Dogs Squad (http://www.jr-x.de/playmobil/projekte/trailer.php?page=3&lang=en) story, but I'm not that satisfied with it. It's only thin cardboard and not that solid like your's seem to be. And I'm not satisfied with the shape itself; your's I think is designed a little bit more clever. :-[

Quote from: playmofire on June 08, 2007, 23:48:47
The curtains look very interesting - surely, Playmobil but not originally curtains?

No, the curtains are orginal PM parts, the one in the windows (30 22 1360 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-22-1360)) as well as those around the window (30 24 9620 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-24-9620)).

Quote from: playmofire on June 08, 2007, 23:48:47
And I've just saved the image and then looked at it on a larger scale, and there are miniatures of the Playmobil Collector on the desk top!!!!!!!

Yes, they are. There are also miniatures of the catalogues (on the shipping box and on the floor right beside the yellow basket and you can see a miniature of Richard Unglik's World History (http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y967H16PL._SS500_.jpg).
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: playmofire on June 09, 2007, 05:51:40: Quote from: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 04:52:54
Thanks for the kind feedback :D

Yes and no. It's the same I used for the Trailer for the Rescue Dogs Squad (http://www.jr-x.de/playmobil/projekte/trailer.php?page=3&lang=en) story, but I'm not that satisfied with it. It's only thin cardboard and not that stabil like your's seem to be. And I'm not satisfied with the shape itself; your's I think is designed a little bit more clever. :-[

I hope to start a thread this weekend with some thoughts on backdrops and some information on the ones I've made.

Quote from: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 04:52:54
No, the curtains are orginal PM parts, the one in the windows (30 22 1360 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-22-1360)) as well as those around the window (30 24 9620 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-24-9620))
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I've never seen the grey curtains before; thanks for the link. The little white ones from 3965 I have come across before.

Quote from: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 04:52:54
Yes, they are. There are also miniatures of the catalogues (on the shipping box and on the floor right beside the yellow basket and you can see a miniature of Richard Unglik's World History (http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y967H16PL._SS500_.jpg).

I haven't had time to look carefully at everything yet, so you must leave me some surprises. The quality of the picture on the screen became too poor after a certain point of zooming in to see all the items, so today I will print it out at highest quality on my printer.

Thanks for all the answers, Jochen.
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 05:58:37: Quote from: playmofire on June 09, 2007, 05:51:40
I've never seen the grey curtains before; thanks for the link. The little white ones from 3965 I have come across before.

They are light blue (baby blue :yup:) ...

Quote from: playmofire on June 09, 2007, 05:51:40
I haven't had time to look carefully at everything yet, so you must leave me some surprises. The quality of the picture on the screen became too poor after a certain point of zooming in to see all the items, so today I will print it out at highest quality on my printer.

Sorry, didn't want to spoil :-[
I can e-mail you the photo in higher resolution if you like so you can look closer ;)
(It's about 3 MB and 3888 x 2592 pixel in size; is this ok for your mailbox?)
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: playmofire on June 09, 2007, 06:10:45: Quote from: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 05:58:37
Sorry, didn't want to spoil :-[
I can e-mail you the photo in higher resolution if you like so you can look closer ;)
(It's about 3 MB and 3888 x 2592 pixel in size; is this ok for your mailbox?)

Don't worry, you haven't spoilt anything. :)

I think 3mb will be ok for my mailbox, just a bit slow downloading, but I can always copy and paste, so please send me it, and many thanks in advance. :)
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Tim_w on June 09, 2007, 08:59:57: Hello Little Jo

I wish that my room was as tidy and well organised as yours :lol: !! As allways you never fail to amaze me with your attention to detail and all the small touches that add so much to the overall picture. There is so much detail in your little Playmo boxes that i feel the urge to pick them up and look inside, you must have a great deal of patience to sit down and make them !! Oh and the rabbit is lovely, have you ever posted pictures of your real house rabbits ? I would really like to see them.

KIndest Regards Tim
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Richard on June 09, 2007, 15:39:35: OMG ... Jochen!

You are an incredibly talented miniaturist!

You are absolutely amazing!

Sylvia is the ONLY other person that I've ever seen who can put as much detail into a Playmobil scene.

Jochen, have you ever thought about teaming up with Sylvia to do a "special event" over at Just For Kl!cks! (http://www.justforklicks.com/) ... ???

I think that it would be fabulous!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful imagination and creative talent with us.

All the best,
Richard
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Little Jo on June 09, 2007, 15:57:28: Quote from: Richard on June 09, 2007, 15:39:35
You are an incredibly talented miniaturist!

You are absolutely amazing!

:-[ Thank you for the praise.

Quote from: Richard on June 09, 2007, 15:39:35
Sylvia is the ONLY other person that I've ever seen who can put as much detail into a Playmobil scene.

;D Yes, exactly she was the one who inspired me doing such setups. (I think I already told somewhere that her Coming Home for Christmas story was the reason that I rediscovered my Playmobil fondness and started doing such things.)

Quote from: Richard on June 09, 2007, 15:39:35
Jochen, have you ever thought about teaming up with Sylvia to do a "special event" over at Just For Kl!cks! (http://www.justforklicks.com/) ... ???

Hm, seems to be a good idea: making a remote-project together :D

Although I must say, I'm a little bit delayed with my personal stuff ... a little pirate customizing work, my casting tutorial ... and I still owe Sylvia the annual J4K Happy Birthday Truck photo which I should have presented already days ago ... :-\
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Sir Gareth on June 13, 2007, 17:46:43: Thats an awsome set up, what great detail. :wow:

You could almost believe that you used a large shop display figure and that the blue boxes are true size..
Title: Re: Collector's Pleasure -- Collector's Treasure
Post by: Sylvia on June 16, 2007, 13:24:33: Truly adorable set up!! :inlove:

Your self-made accessories are amazingly true-to-life and fit in perfectly with the Playmobil items. I especially like the way you have included the pieces from the mini sets. 8-)

Thanks for sharing this photo with us, Jochen! :)