"A few of the coolest photos I have ever seen": What looks like a spectacular Formula 1 is actually made of Lego

Take 10 miniature racing cars, three camera lenses, a room full of smoke, a large amount of coffee and about 70 hours of work: one of the coolest photo projects from this year is ready.

Likewise hasBenedict, a photographer specializing in toy photography, the ingredients for his latest photo series.

With the popular building blocks and other materials, it has reproduced realistic Formula 1 scenes and photographed them in an impressive way. We can only agree to a comment under the artist's YouTube video (embedded below):

"A few of the coolest photos I have ever seen"

We show you how exactly it was going on.

How did the photos have been taken?

First, the photographer had to recreate various scenes of a Formula 1 route-including advertising banners, sections of the route and grandstands.

For this he used a wide variety of materials, such as paper, cardboard, felt, plastic, color and more.

Here you can see what two of the sets and the resulting photos look like. (Image source: Benedek Lampert)

Surprisingly, almost all elements in the photos have been real and not digitally supplemented. The only exception is artificial clouds in some photos.

Here are some examples from his photo series:

The results are impressive. Hats off! (Image source: Benedek Lampert)

Which camera was used?A Nikon Z6 III. This is a full-frame system camera that costs around 2,300 euros today without lens. The large image sensor has a resolution of 24.5 megapixels.

The camera is very fast and can take up to 120 frames per second with autofocus, which is perfect for photography of action and sport-even if the Lego figures that are not moving would not be necessary.

Which lens was used?In total, Lambert used three lenses, but one thing stands out: the "Laowa 24mm f/14 2x macro sample".

It is a long lens with a particularly small aperture.
Although it is not very bright, it is common in macro photography to close the aperture far in order to achieve the size of the most as possible. In order to be able to illuminate motifs better, a small ring light is installed at the front.
The lens can focus very close and represent objects with a 2: 1 scale.
The price is around 1,900 euros.

More equipment:The compact fog machine came for the smoke »PMI Smokeninja Pro«For use.

Lambert LED lights also used in different sizes.