Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. One thing that has happened to me recently is that I received a flash lighting kit for my birthday. So, today I was practicing my lighting techniques using my favourite childhood action figure: Action Man (“the greatest hero of them all!”). It made me realise that Action Man is actually the male equivalent of Barbie in promoting unattainable body shapes to children. I mean, he’s just so unnaturally chiselled and some of his muscles just make no sense. But yes, I’m sure if anyone walked into the room while I was shooting this, it would’ve been a weird sight to see me photographing a topless muscled action figure with a full proper lighting kit. Luckily no-one did, and later I shot my brother (who gave me shit when he saw the action figure and lighting gear and connected the dots) using this same technique and it looked great, so it was worth the weirdness.