Hello! Wow another week has passed! I have only have 2 more days of school until exam break! YAS! I still have that blinking flu! Don't feel sick just still coughing and sniffling all over the place! But I tried something new this week.. FACE TIME! I talked to my friends Bella from A Doll's Life and it was so much fun!

Now onto the photos, I want to start posting my photoshoots on here, I post them on Instagram but here you can see all the pics together I guess. Do you guys want me to post more photoshoots? Just tell me down below! 

Now I have no idea why these pics are so grainy, I don't usually have this problem.

My sister was a darling and made me a real flower crown! Now my siblings are funding my flower crown addiction too! >.<

Now I realised now after I've taken the pics, that if I had turned her 180 degrees then she wouldn't have been looking so purple! >.< I think it's because I was in the shade of a tree and the main bulk of the light was coming from the behind, even though I had a reflector, meh I don't mind!

Well it's a quick post today, I have a pile of homework that I've been working through, end of year stuff. BORING!!!

Happy Doll Loving!

Lydia 

P.S GUYS TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN! Mmmm maybe next week I'll share some pics of what I dressed my barbies as :) I am preparing myself to eat a hella lot of lollies and not even care! 

Hello my lovelies! Wow this weekend has just flown past me, I had a flu all weekend and my younger sister has been in hospital (but she's ok now) at least it's labour weekend and I have Monday off from school! YAS! So I decided to show you how I got Chandler to appear standing on her own :) 

This was my first time taking photos on a beach and it was really hard to deal with the blazing sun, lucky I found patches of cloud. But they were very over saturated so I had to fiddle around in the editing, but i LOVE how they came out. 

I was going for the tourist poster vibe with the lady walking along the waterfront but her sandals in her hands, I could have gone down to the water but I really couldn't be bothered walking that far! haha

But how did I get her to stand like that? Magic? Well let me tell you some things.

For me doll and toy photography is all about the illusion, making the doll seem to come alive! Making her hair be in that perfect place (though my dolls always have flyways, I'm working on that) etc..

So in the past I have used a wire that I wrap around the dolls waist and then blue-tack it to the ground but I don't recommend that because when editing it out of the pic it got a bit distorted.. Anyways i have recently gone and tried using Kebab sticks and i've had some great results ;)

So here are some unedited pics showing how I got the doll to stand up, now if you have photoshop you can usually photoshop the stick out (thats what I do when I'm getting frustrated and can't get the angle quite right) But if you don't have that kind of software DON'T PANIC! As I said earlier, it's all about the illusion, 

1. When using the sticks you want to think about it being another leg, look and see which way the doll is falling and position the stick to where the doll is off balance (Or if one of the legs it up or not touching the ground, then make the stick become the 'missing' leg)  

2. Now if you took the photo from this angle and didn't have photoshop then everyone is gonna see the stick and it ruins the illuison, but fret not! Notice what happens when I scuttle 90 degrees to the left (A quarter circle).

WOAH! Where'd the stick go?! How is she standing?! And that my children is how to wow an audience :)

Her front leg is actually hiding the stick so there is no need for a crazy editing system like photoshop!

  Cool huh?!

Now if you look closely at how she's holding the shoes you may notice what I used to get them to stay in her hands... BLUE TACK! My actual savior!  But I will talk about that in another tutorial

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it helpful! It will work for any smaller doll that the kebab stick can bear the weight of. Now if you take photos of larger dolls (like AG dolls or the larger monster high dolls) the same rules apply, but don't use a kebab stick. I use a metal skewer. But if you like I will make another post with some tips I have found when exploring my larger doll photography.