Lego Spiderman Far From Home Behind The Scenes

Spiderman: Far From Home is coming soon. I’m really excited about it having seen the trailer and as you know I have the Lego Set.

My idea for todays shot was a battle scene between Spiderman, Mysterio and Molten Man.

The Setup

As you can see I had to use some stands to pose the heroes. If you really want to know Mysterio is on a mast from the Destiny’s Bounty and Spiderman is on the log from the Lego city Forest Tractor. The background is the Sanctum Sanctorum, my favourite Avengers Lego set.

My camera was setup on a tripod ready to take the shot. As always I took quite a few with various adjustments for the positions of the mini-figures to make them appear to be in battle with Molten Man. I decided on this image to edit.

Photoshop

As you’d expect, I first had to remove the stand and my hand. The clone stamp tool was all I needed, and a little time. This was more complicated than normal and needed a lot of zooming in and making sure I adjusted the selection to clone. The hardest part was the building so I could maintain the shadows but it was well worth the time.

Hopefully, you’ve read my previous post on Molten Man so you’ll know how I used the pattern fill. In any case I used it again to remove the table top and replace it wis rocks with an increased size. I used various shades of orange on a new layer in screen blend to create the lava effect.

The top of the image is white so I added a sky and used a layer mask to make sure it only appeared to be above the sanctum.

I used a colour dodge layer for Molten Man, Mysterio and Spiderman’s eyes and his web. Spiderman is in his Stealth suit but I really wanted his eyes to stand out. I also felt I needed to use a colour burn (darken layer) to darken Spiderman’s suit. I had a very low opacity for this layer. This also made the eyes stand out.

Mysterio

Mysterio was a prime target for effects in this image. I added a smoke layer to his mask on a low opacity. Next was to put smoke out of his hands. To create the glow I added a new layer of various colours of green. This was set to screen blend mode. Finally I added some fog behind him to finish off the affect.

Effects

My final adjustments were to add some sparks to the image. I used a layer mask to remove the sparks from Mysterio and Spiderman. I reduced the brightness of the image and added some flames to the building. It is a battle after all. I reduced the brightness of the sky using a new layer and a clipping mask so it only affected the sky.

However, looking at the image I decided to crop in closer and that ended up removing the sky. I still think it was worth adding the sky – even though I didn’t ultimately use it.

Before I exported the final image from Lightroom I added a little vibrance. That was enough to finish the image. I hope you like it.

I hope you like the final image. Let me know in the comments or please use the contact me form. I’d love to hear from you.