The Saga Museum Blog!

Steve Bruno committed to the challenging task of photographing over 6,000 items in my collection back in February 2007. He would set out to shoot the front, back, top bottom, left and right sides of every item for a total of over 20,000 images. Steve and I thought it would take about 60-90 days to complete and we laugh about that miscalculation today. With six 18 hour roundtrip travels to Florida, 5-10 days per trip, 16-18 hours per day shooting, 40 hours per week between trips of post production work and 16 months later, Steve is still delivering the job on a weekly basis.

Steve would average between 20- 40 minutes on each item that he shot. Some important items he would work on for almost 3 hours without getting the perfect (to Steve's extremely high standards) shot. Time spent adjusting strobe lights, removing all outside light and room reflections while using props such as black and white foam board, modeling clay, tinfoil, black bed sheets, etc. Needless to say, Steve has the highest level of patience during this torturous 20 - 180 minute operation that I could never have.

The following are examples of one Vintage and one Modern photograph for each chapter in the book. I believe that everyone will agree that there is not another Star Wars collectible book in existence that even comes close to matching the quality of the images that will be found in this book. The photographs are nothing less than spectacular and I am ecstatic at the direction that this book has gone.

Enjoy!

CARDED ACTION FIGRES - Vintage/Modern: