Big adventures in a small world

Category Maskcat Ester – “Faye”

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. Marta and Marcelo joined the crowd in the subway in… Continue Reading →

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. I had that happen today… Continue Reading →

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. I didn’t manage to get my camera settings right for capturing the disco ball lighting… Continue Reading →

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. Light a scene by LED tea candle? Done that. Set a scene by using a dim mini flashlight to cast… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 35: The End

Last time we checked in, all of the characters were converging on the airport in an attempt to find Camellia. Did they make it? Let’s see. Well, hmmm, not sure. Let’s see if we can get another angle Oh, yes,… Continue Reading →

How much is that doggy in the (browser) window?

or how many 1/6 scale bulldogs does it take to fill a diorama? I’m generally pretty thrifty in my doll and diorama purchases. With the exception of the main character dolls, I get almost everything else on the way cheap… Continue Reading →

Moving day

Without moving to a new home, I seem to have set off a cascade of smaller changes which resulted in every single object in my home being moved to another location within my home. Add to that that this morning… Continue Reading →

Ester, my tiny tamer

The third member of my Underfoot cast arrived this week. She is Ester, from Maskcat dolls. In size, at 21cm she stands slightly taller than Buu (19cm). In shape, she’s most similar to the slender Rosie (who’s about 2cm taller)…. Continue Reading →

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