Just knolling around.

It's been brought to my attention, by Margaret over at Live Like No One Else, that when I lay out my Lego like this,

it's not a sign that I'm insane!

There's actually a name for this. It's called "knolling photography. It's the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method or organization. Well, I've been doing this for a long time without realizing it was a "process." Check out some of my past knolling works from some of my old ebay collectibles lot listings:

I used to have a board that I worked on which was the same basic ratio as my camera frame. That way I could fill the board which would then translate to filling the camera frame, but a square is actually ideal to getting the most out of an ebay gallery photo.

Here's a square layout I did with Build-a-Bear clothes.

This knife laying vertical wouldn't fill that gallery photo frame.

So I did shot it on an angle going corner to corner to make it a little more interesting
and to use up the whole square.

Same with these mugs. Arranged in a square frame.

Margaret also happened to notice and comment how I photographed these pots.

Again, using that square. Two pots side by side would not be as effective.

Thanks Margaret for noticing! I'm not an expert on photography by any means and I use the crappiest camera, plus I use flash, but I try and do the most that I can with what I've got. Hopefully it results in my item getting noticed and ends with a sale. In the case of these pots, it did!