Category Photoshop
I mostly go into Photoshop to play around with my photographs, and just use Lightroom for its automatic adjustments. But, I’ve recently learned how to get more out of Lightroom, and am using it more often to adjust my shots…. Continue Reading →
Lighting a shot is always a series of experiments. I have some very rough idea of what I want, and then I start playing around with placement and lighting. Sometimes sometimes everything looks great, and sometimes everything looks awful. I… Continue Reading →
10 days ago, Rat and Cosette were well on their way to a waffle. Rat had read the recipe, and Cosette was breaking an egg. And then . . . everything just stopped, when the picture in my mind utterly… Continue Reading →
Sharing my steps to get a good shot of Rat and Cosette getting that first cup of coffee in the morning. I start off with Rat alone, hanging onto a coffee pot. I’m dealing with that fluorescent kitchen light again,… Continue Reading →
Sharing a series of shots I took to illustrate the Underfoot episode I’m working on. The idea was that I’d follow two of the characters through their day, starting with a shower. I thought I’d take a picture of the… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 (Granado Udell). And, after the last episode,… Continue Reading →
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,… Continue Reading →
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. It started with Camellia’s episode, which launched the series. Although I left… Continue Reading →