Shelly

About Shelly Corbett

I'm the dedicated founder of the Toy Photographers blog and community, occasional podcast host, a Lensbaby Ambassador and Creativity Coach. I also run Creativity and Toy Photography workshops. In addition to sharing my knowledge of toy photography and the creative process, I sell my original art and blank greeting cards through various outlets. For more information about me, coaching and my work, please check out my website: shellycorbett.com

Composing for negative space

By Shelly Corbett|2024-10-03T11:27:48-07:00October 7, 2024|How To..., Visual Composition|

Negative space is one of the 20+ compositional “rules” that [...]

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Toy photography can get complex

By Shelly Corbett|2024-09-10T13:34:09-07:00September 23, 2024|How To...|

Have you ever considered that toy photography can get complex? [...]

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Apexel 100mm Macro Lens

By Shelly Corbett|2024-06-27T10:51:52-07:00June 25, 2024|Reviews|

I love taking toy photos with my Sony / Lensbaby [...]

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My Favorite Toy Photography Posts

By Shelly Corbett|2024-07-23T08:25:57-07:00May 29, 2024|...of Interest, How To...|

With nearly 2000 posts here on the Blog, it can [...]

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Photographing toys outdoors

By Shelly Corbett|2024-07-23T08:25:10-07:00May 13, 2024|adventures, How To..., Outdoor Toy Photography|

Photographing outdoors is a lot of fun. Photographing toys outdoors [...]

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Importance of composition

By Shelly Corbett|2024-07-23T08:33:29-07:00March 12, 2024|How To..., Visual Composition|

Because there are several prompts in this year’s Toy Photography [...]

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MeWe 2024 Bingo Challenge

By Shelly Corbett|2024-06-19T05:56:11-07:00February 15, 2024|Events, Photo Challenge|

Welcome to the Toy Photographers MeWe Bingo Challenge. Its a [...]

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Tools to have on hand while photographing toys indoors.

By Shelly Corbett|2024-02-15T10:29:27-08:00February 2, 2024|How To...|

What tools do I need to have when I set [...]

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Help me celebrate our 2023 BINGO Challenge winner!

By Shelly Corbett|2024-01-31T11:05:03-08:00January 23, 2024|Events|

And we have a winner: Ang Cheng Ann aka Sunny [...]

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Your style and where it comes from

By Shelly Corbett|2023-05-18T21:19:04-07:00May 9, 2023|...of Interest|

I love when I post a photo to Instagram and [...]

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Celebrating women through toy photography

By Shelly Corbett|2023-03-06T16:03:24-08:00March 6, 2023|Photo Challenge|

March in the United States is set aside to celebrate [...]

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Jantmanuary

By Shelly Corbett|2023-02-13T12:10:58-08:00February 13, 2023|Photo Challenge|

We are well into February and its time to bid [...]

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MeWe 2023 Photo Bingo Challenge

By Shelly Corbett|2023-02-07T17:30:46-08:00February 5, 2023|Photo Challenge|

Everyone loves a photo challenge! Challenges can get the creative [...]

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Brick Journal issue #77

By Shelly Corbett|2023-01-09T14:13:16-08:00January 9, 2023|adventures|

Have you seen the latest issue of Brick Journal, #77? [...]

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Spread a little toy photography magic!

By Shelly Corbett|2022-12-06T20:51:18-08:00December 7, 2022|adventures, Ideas About Creativity|

Why not spread a little toy photography magic and create [...]

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Death on a vacation

By Shelly Corbett|2022-10-10T14:22:35-07:00October 17, 2022|...of Interest|

Getting away from it all The feel of water Life [...]

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Feature Friday: Zoran Pesic (bricktoygrapher)

By Shelly Corbett|2022-09-12T17:46:35-07:00September 16, 2022|Toy Photo Feature Friday|

Hello everyone my name is Zoran and I come from [...]

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Creativity Workshops

By Shelly Corbett|2022-09-11T14:21:37-07:00August 23, 2022|...of Interest, adventures|

If you've noticed that I'm not writing as much for [...]

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Geometry – what’s it good for?

By Shelly Corbett|2024-07-23T08:36:09-07:00August 1, 2022|How To..., Podcast, Visual Composition|

Recently Shelly Corbett chatted with Sabrina Perry and Chris Whitlow [...]

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Covid and Creativity; a roundtable discussion

By Shelly Corbett|2022-06-05T15:07:29-07:00June 6, 2022|Podcast|

I was thinking the other day about how the Covid [...]

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