If you are one of the lucky ones with a dollhouse for your dolls like me congrats. So many don't have space or the funds to have one. We lack both pretty much but we can fake it. Cardboard is your friend. Scrapbook paper is a better friend. You can make walls and floors easily with the two. I showed some in another post but if you really want cool doll props and are on a budget I am going to share my best secrets with you but let me mention one more friend, Glue sticks. Trust me they don't wrinkle the paper like regular glue will.
My secrets:
YouTube is your friend. People show you how to do stuff and watching it is free assuming you have internet. Which if you are reading my tips I guess you are. There are a few youtubers that make great stuff for dolls. Chad Alan makes stuff for Monster High, Ever After High and Barbies and shows you how to make clothes... and some of his techniques will be able to be translated to larger dolls like me. Find him here.
My Froggy Stuff. Started out with mostly Monster High and Barbie and now covers everything including American Girls... wooo. There is a blog and the have more than one You Tube. Find it here. Furniture , backgrounds, luggage, food oh my so many ideas.
Karen Mom of Three Blog... wow she has all boys but makes cool doll stuff. Wait so does my human mom. Well her actual kids are boys. That is awesome though. Keeping in touch with their inner child I guess... linky dinky do to find Karen's blog.
Google search: Yep Or Bing if you like that better or whichever search you use. I am a google person umm doll.. anyhow. Type in how to make a (insert item here) for an 18 inch doll. You might have to weed out things you were not looking for and it is best to ask a parent because when you google search anything can happen. We are als 1/3 scale or playscale. (psst here you will thank me for this one) Print Mini,com is free and they have a Playscale page that fits us. woo! Accessorize time.
So make it and fake it for cool photo props on the cheap. Because we all love those little details.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Thinking outside the box
Another one of Saige's tips for better and more artistic doll photos. Think outside the box a bit.
The box is a standard portrait. Pose us. Make us look like we are doing something. We look more life like that way. We look like we are fun little people. Make us look like we are in scale to the things around us by holding the camera close to us. It puts the background out farther and makes it seem more in scale. On the beach you see beach umbrellas off in the distance but they don't look like they are actual size. The skateboard is a mini one that came with a tshirt the human boys got. It is illegal to ride a skate board in the town we live in so the kids can't use them but I am a doll. I am above the law I will ride that skateboard if I want to. (Ok got a bit carried away but you get the point. I can stand on it and look like I am riding it. And,,, once again it was Beth not even me. Sigh. Hard being the newer doll you don't go out much. Have to be kept pristine blah blah blah) So all these photos put us in action poses, we are not centered in the middle portrait style. No school photos in this group, Yearbook ones perhaps,but it adds life to us.
Next tip Parts of the whole.
No where is it written that you need the entire doll in the photo for a good photo. All of these are highlighting the accessories. I do love the headband shot. It is me. I love how my eyelashes look. You can see all the pretty details in the headband/ We have cute hands and feet and knees and elbows and well where aren't we cute, am I right/? So in thinking outside the box, think parts of the whole. This can be achieved in the editing as well as the shooting, depending on the photo in question. These were pretty much focusing on the subject in the shot but sometimes you want to narrow it down. In editing you can crop to just part of the whole. The photographer was trying to highlight the design of the lace so there was a close shot of the whole dress but upon staring on it in the editing website the crop down to the just the lace made the difference. It is part of a collage of the outfit and it really a nice touch to show how pretty the brown designs are on the pink. I was so happy I got to model it. Candace is still not speaking to me. She will get over it eventually. The first photo is totally unedited so it is sideways. Sorry
So to recap this lesson Think Outside the Box, Not a school portrait but Action or Parts of the whole can really spice up your photo shoots.
Keep Practicing your art, both Photography and the kinds with paper and drawing and painting supplies.
Saige
The box is a standard portrait. Pose us. Make us look like we are doing something. We look more life like that way. We look like we are fun little people. Make us look like we are in scale to the things around us by holding the camera close to us. It puts the background out farther and makes it seem more in scale. On the beach you see beach umbrellas off in the distance but they don't look like they are actual size. The skateboard is a mini one that came with a tshirt the human boys got. It is illegal to ride a skate board in the town we live in so the kids can't use them but I am a doll. I am above the law I will ride that skateboard if I want to. (Ok got a bit carried away but you get the point. I can stand on it and look like I am riding it. And,,, once again it was Beth not even me. Sigh. Hard being the newer doll you don't go out much. Have to be kept pristine blah blah blah) So all these photos put us in action poses, we are not centered in the middle portrait style. No school photos in this group, Yearbook ones perhaps,but it adds life to us.
Next tip Parts of the whole.
No where is it written that you need the entire doll in the photo for a good photo. All of these are highlighting the accessories. I do love the headband shot. It is me. I love how my eyelashes look. You can see all the pretty details in the headband/ We have cute hands and feet and knees and elbows and well where aren't we cute, am I right/? So in thinking outside the box, think parts of the whole. This can be achieved in the editing as well as the shooting, depending on the photo in question. These were pretty much focusing on the subject in the shot but sometimes you want to narrow it down. In editing you can crop to just part of the whole. The photographer was trying to highlight the design of the lace so there was a close shot of the whole dress but upon staring on it in the editing website the crop down to the just the lace made the difference. It is part of a collage of the outfit and it really a nice touch to show how pretty the brown designs are on the pink. I was so happy I got to model it. Candace is still not speaking to me. She will get over it eventually. The first photo is totally unedited so it is sideways. Sorry
So to recap this lesson Think Outside the Box, Not a school portrait but Action or Parts of the whole can really spice up your photo shoots.
Keep Practicing your art, both Photography and the kinds with paper and drawing and painting supplies.
Saige
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