Create Natural Posing for Your Toy Photography
Posing is the key to believability in toy photography. Check out this master class in posing your action figures by Ken Loh.
Posing is the key to believability in toy photography. Check out this master class in posing your action figures by Ken Loh.
Learn to build your own sky scape out of cotton wool for a diorama, and then use it for toy photography and make the Razor Crest fly.
Learn some valuable tips and tricks to get the most out of enjoying toy photography in the snow.
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Learn about how controlling blur levels affects bokeh in your toy photography, how to do it and some basic rules for the way cameras work.
Alan explains how to make DIY tinfoil junk piles and cubes to create a diorama and accessories for shooting his Mattel WALL-E action figure.
Try using Rembrandt-style photography lighting, not on portraits but on miniature models to recreate a certain galaxy far, far away.
Getting close to toys for that epic shot means fighting a narrow depth of field. Learn focus stacking for a handy way to widen your focus.
Exploring the use of Dutch angles or tilt with LEGO photographer Tomek Lasek.
Lens compression is a useful side effect of a narrow focal length. Learn how to use it for more impactful toy photography compositions.
An exploration of using negative space in toy photography and how it affects narrative, using action figures and LEGO minifigures.
A quick tutorial on controlling depth of field, an important part of a photographer's tool box that affects how viewers see our images.
Learn how to use leading lines to instantly improve the composition and narrative flow of your toy photography.
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Enjoy our little tutorial on how to light the head of the LEGO Headless Horseman. We hope you'll laugh your head off while reading!
Learn how to make a tombstone for your LEGO and/or 6-inch (1:12 scale) action figure toy photography projects, just in time for Halloween.
Sick of Reels and the dreaded algorithm? Alan offers five alternatives to Instagram for sharing your toy photography.
quickly snowballed to something bigger. As I began exploring different characters and subjects I knew that eventually I would carve something toylike...
Toy photographer Tobias M. Schiel explains how narratives can be constructed using pictures as building blocks.
Dave uses smoke to diffuse light and create an epic image of Deadpool with glowing eyes.