That first cup of coffee: Capturing the right shot for a photo story
When you’re smaller than a teapot, it’s hard to get that first cup of coffee in the morning.
2018
Rat takes a bath: Behind the scenes on a single shot from a photographic novel
It turns out lighting is doing about 90% of the work in these shots
Make your doll part of the crowd: Using Photoshop to add your doll to a scene
The Betwixt characters seem to spend more time out and about then any of my other dolls, so I’m forever figuring out ways to make them part of the scene.
Brute force doll posing: Photographing impossible poses
Sometimes I get a really clear picture in my head of what I want to capture, and then realize that there’s simply no way to achieve it. That’s when I resort to brute force posing.
Unusual lighting with a disco ball light, finishing up
As a follow up to my previous post, I finished the shots I’d been taking with the disco ball, and they turned out pretty well.
Unusual lighting for doll photographs: Using a disco ball to light a scene
One of the big advantages of photographing inanimate subjects is that you play around with all kinds of dim lighting.
When dolls go mad: Building a crazy wall for Marcelo
Has a real person ever created a crazy wall? Or does that only happen in films? In any case, if ever I saw a doll who might create a crazy wall, it’s Marcelo from Betwixt.
Faking a painted wall for a roombox: Using Photoshop to paint a wall
I realize I could have added a little more detail in my last post about how to create a painted wall for a roombox, but I’d gotten pretty far through the post before I realized I should write about it, so I saved it for later.
Building rooms for dolls: A place for my 1/3 scale Dollmore Manuier doll
Creating an adventure with 1/3 scale dolls means dragging home much bigger pieces of materails.
Photo Stories then and now: Comparing Among the Flowers episodes over the years
At almost two years into learning to create photo stories, and reshooting the Among the Flowers storyline, I can start to see what I’ve learned over these years.