Just a quick post to wish my fellow Star Wars fans a Happy Star Wars Day! Featuring one of my favourite characters Din Djarin from The Mandalorien, the other favourite being Ashoka Tano. (This figure actually belongs to my husband. I am waiting for my own in the original Beskar armour to arrive.)
May the Fourth Be With You!
A quick post with some figure and doll photography.
I also wanted to showcase a Youtube video I came across called "Jerry Business: Little Toys, Big World" by SmugMug Films. It is a very short film about a toy photographer who does toy street photography. I love how creative and adventurous he gets with his photography. I also love his philosophy that if people like his work, that's great but if people don't that's okay too because he'll still keep doing it.
It's exactly how I feel. I'll keep doing this because I enjoy it and love it. Obviously I have been branching out past the dolls and entering the realm of toy and miniature photography these days. I like to mix it up and experiment. Plus, let's be honest, figures are so much easier to pose (and store) compared to big massive dolls!! And if they happen to fall during a photoshoot, the person taking the photo doesn't feel like their heart stopped from it. (Yes I am looking at you BJDs.)
Coraline, Coraline. I love this figure. I have two versions of her. They aren't the most "lux" figures but they are still pretty good at posing, plus I was super lucky to get them as they are hard to find.
I've been taking a lot of photos over the past few days. Of different subjects. It's been interesting, challenging and frustrating. But it's also been a lot of fun. I haven't had time until recently to really enjoy taking photos for a while so it was nice to have the time to be able to do this.
We'll start with one of my most neglected dolls. She's an Obitsu 48cm doll with the Mafuyu head. It's been such a long time since I posted her on this blog. I'm going to call her Anya.
I really wanted to make use of the good weather outside yesterday for a change so borrowed two of my husband's Star Wars figures for a quick photoshoot.
It's a little hard to see as I wasn't sure if it would work. I had my daughter help me with this one. I gave her a spray bottle filled with water and got her to spray it up into the air. I wanted a fine rain mist effect which it provided however the camera doesn't do a great job of catching it. But if you look closely, you will see tiny water droplets on the figure and a fine mist on his helmet (courtesy of my daughter who decided to spray the water onto the figure at one point). I wanted to give the illusion he had been trekking through the rain in pursuit of a bounty.
I mentioned in a previous post I had been watching tutorials on toy photography. I purchased a neat little portable light that has multiple colours (for adding mood and atmosphere). I wanted to try it out and thought it would be fun to grab a couple of my figures to test drive the light. I also thought it was a great opportunity for me to play with my camera settings on my DSLR.
Here are the results of my little experiment.
Recently I've been watching tutorials on Toy Photography and wanted to try my hand at this. I used my DSLR and phone to take photos. I got a new phone recently and I have to say, I love the photo quality on this one. Although that makes no difference on the blog as blogger does something weird to my photos and they never look quite as clear and crisp as they do in my photo editing program. Oh well, can only work with what I have.
Took our daughter to visit with her grandparents and thought it would be a good opportunity to take some dolls and get in some quick photos while I was there.
I hope everyone is keeping well, healthy and safe! Miss 4 has finally started at an Early Learning Center two days a week so I will be getting a tiny bit of free time - at least until Christmas as her Center closes for two weeks.
This year has flown by so fast. I can't believe we are already nearing the end of September. I know I say this every year but this particular year seems to have sped by even faster. Having a toddler running around really fills up your day so you start marking days by their activities rather than the time!
I was finally able to have a good photo session this past weekend when we took Miss 4 over to visit with her grandparents. Hubby kept her occupied while I took some snaps of figures I took around there. Unfortunately these days, photos are mostly taken with my phone rather than my big camera. Don't want to have it broken running after Miss 4!!
The first set of photos is with one of my Figma figures. I can't remember the name sorry. She's rather cute though.
"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
