Making Toy Photography Gifts for Holidays and Special Occasions
Your toy photography can make the perfect, unique gift. Whether it's Christmas, Valentine's Day, a birthday or graduation, this is your chance...
Basic Lightsaber Effects How-To
If you are a Star Wars fan, and a toy [...]
Toying with Bright Ideas: A Light Diffuser on a Budget
The final image after some Photoshop magic As I have [...]
Fitting Toy Photography into the Busy Times of Life
When life gets busy, does your toy photography get left behind? Teddi Deppner shares her top 3 tips for keeping your toy photo mojo alive!
Toying with bright ideas: layered light
In today's post, I want to show you a technique [...]
Making things with Light Stenciling
I'm super excited to share this technique with everyone. Dubbed [...]
5 Cool Toy Photography Tools For $15 or less!
When I first got started in toy photography one of [...]
Shaking it Up – Adding Action with Camera Shake
As toy photographers, we go to great lengths to avoid [...]
Getting That Gritty Star Wars Look
If there’s one thing I could point to that makes [...]
Cool Cat: A Portrait Session
This portrait session with Catwoman just happened. I had set [...]
Stranger Scenes: LEGO Particulates of Evil
Four Bricks Tall takes us behind the scenes of this photo of the Byers house in the Upside Down with floating LEGO particulates of evil.
Playing with Fire – Making Fake Flames
Inspired by James Gibbs' "Toying with Bright Ideas - Playing [...]
No Money For Lights, No Problem!
Awesome Light = Awesome Photos Amazing light has always been [...]
How To Choose? Selecting the Perfect Photo From Your Toy Photography Shoot
Subtle differences in angle, light, pose, and crop can make [...]
Adding Z-Axis Motion
One of the ways to add energy to a photo [...]
Making a Splash
Sitting at the bar down by our lake, drowning my [...]
Endor: Behind The Scenes of a Six Image Narrative
I created my recent Endor series as a challenge to [...]
All the World’s a Stage – Part 3
”Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know [...]
All the world’s a stage – Part 2
"If all the world's a stage then I want better [...]
All the World’s a Stage – Part 1
“All the World’s a Stage, and all the toys and [...]