Hagrid’s Hut

I have a new set. I’ve never been that into Harry Potter but Finn is so we got the new Hagrid’s Hut Buckbeaks Rescue, lego set 75947. I have to say it was fun to build – and I’ll do a full review shortly. My main interest in it was for lego photography and my first shot was one of Hagrid outside his hut having been disturbed by an unknown sound.

Here is the original image.

As you can see, it is quite a bright image of Hagrid standing outside his hut with his lantern.

My first task was to create a more “night” time feel to the image. To do it, I created a brightness adjustment layer to reduce the exposure. Then a saturation adjustment layer to de-saturate the image.

I used two layers to create the lantern affect. The first was an orange brush in screen blend mode. The second a colour dodge layer with a lens flare brush.

I still wanted it to feel a bit darker, particularly just behind the door where you can see how bright it originally was. To solve this I created a new layer and painted a black to transparent layer from the top right hand corner into the centre. This was set to screen blend mode.

I then made another layer and painted black at 70% opacity. I set the blend mode to overlay and was much happier with the darker feeling of the image.

My final task was to add a colour dodge layer so I could brighten Hagrid’s face – as if the lantern was shining onto him.

This was a fairly quick but enjoyable image to make and I hope you like it.

The set itself is going to provide a great back drop for some lego photography and I can’t wait to share some more over the next few weeks.

If you’re interested in the set you can find it here

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