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.
Up in the Clouds: Diorama Building
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.
Taking a Snow Day with Toy Photography
Learn some valuable tips and tricks to get the most out of enjoying toy photography in the snow.
A stunning location, messing everything up, and then saving a bad photograph
Last year I wrote a particular blog post and asked [...]
A Practical Guide to Bokeh: Part 1 – Blur Control
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.
Diorama Tips: Building Tinfoil Junk Piles for WALL-E
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.
If Rembrandt Painted Spaceships
Try using Rembrandt-style photography lighting, not on portraits but on miniature models to recreate a certain galaxy far, far away.
Expanding Depth of Field with Focus Stacking
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.
In the Cabinet of Dutch Angles: LEGO On Tilt
Exploring the use of Dutch angles or tilt with LEGO photographer Tomek Lasek.
Using Lens Compression to Control Your Backgrounds
Lens compression is a useful side effect of a narrow focal length. Learn how to use it for more impactful toy photography compositions.
The Not So Negative Space
An exploration of using negative space in toy photography and how it affects narrative, using action figures and LEGO minifigures.
Using Depth of Field to Tell Different Toy Photo Stories
A quick tutorial on controlling depth of field, an important part of a photographer's tool box that affects how viewers see our images.
How to Use Leading Lines to Improve Your Toy Photography
Learn how to use leading lines to instantly improve the composition and narrative flow of your toy photography.
Welcome to Mustafar: Diorama Building with Jelly
Don't make me destroy you, Master Over a few of [...]
LEGO How To: Headlights on Headless Horseman
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!
Making a Tombstone Prop for LEGO & 6-Inch Scale
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.
5 Ways to Share Your Toy Photography Beyond Instagram
Sick of Reels and the dreaded algorithm? Alan offers five alternatives to Instagram for sharing your toy photography.
Hobby vs. Hobby: Hand-Carved Robots for Toy Photography
quickly snowballed to something bigger. As I began exploring different characters and subjects I knew that eventually I would carve something toylike...
Building a Six-Image Narrative
Toy photographer Tobias M. Schiel explains how narratives can be constructed using pictures as building blocks.
Using Smoke as a Light Diffuser
Dave uses smoke to diffuse light and create an epic image of Deadpool with glowing eyes.