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Life of an Unlikely Couple: A Toy Photo Challenge

Life of an Unlikely Couple: A Toy Photo Challenge

Teddi Deppner February 17, 2021 4 Comments

The challenge: Three toy photographers are assigned the prompt “Couples” and asked for a six-image narrative. Here’s what they created.

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Le Petit Prince (“Scene From a Book” Photo Challenge)

Le Petit Prince (“Scene From a Book” Photo Challenge)

Teddi Deppner February 10, 2021 9 Comments

Three toy photographers collaborate to re-create six scenes from the beloved international children’s classic “Le Petit Prince.”

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Rainbows: Six-Image Narrative Challenge Winner

Rainbows: Six-Image Narrative Challenge Winner

Teddi Deppner January 27, 2021 6 Comments

Congratulations to Tony Tulloch (@tonytulloch_tp), Joshua Kittleson (@thegreyklerik) and Sunny Ang (@zekezachzoom)!

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Ride the Wave! Extreme Tutorial

Ride the Wave! Extreme Tutorial

Ann @Megacolormix November 7, 2020 10 Comments

LEGO photographer Ann shares how to create the illusion of an ocean wave in your bathtub using common household materials!

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A Magical Contest: Win a Set of LEGO Harry Potter Minifigures

A Magical Contest: Win a Set of LEGO Harry Potter Minifigures

Shelly September 16, 2020 One Comment

Contest Alert: Show us your magically-themed toy photography to win a set of LEGO Harry Potter collectible minifigures Series 2!

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Toy Conference Calls

Toy Conference Calls

Alan Rappaport July 23, 2020 2 Comments

Regular contributors Gibbo, Dave and Tomek created images of imaginary toy conference calls. Now we challenge you to do the same with our free template!

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Recap of Our MeWe Community Challenges

Recap of Our MeWe Community Challenges

Shelly June 22, 2020 2 Comments

Join us for a recap of Toy Photographers MeWe community challenges. The last two months have been busy and we have the winners to prove it!

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Finding New Places in the Real World

Finding New Places in the Real World

eat_my_bricks January 29, 2020 7 Comments

“Is this the real [world]? Is this just fantasy?” Okay, that’s now how the lyrics go, but with the January MeWe #tp_realworld2020 photo challenge fresh on our minds, this Six-Image Narrative from @eat_my_bricks got us thinking about the joys of making magic out of the “real world.” For a few …

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Playing with Scale: Ant-Man Toy Photography

Playing with Scale: Ant-Man Toy Photography

Oliver Peterson (@oliversees) January 27, 2020 One Comment

As jANTMANuary, the month dedicated to shooting our Ant-Man figures in 1:1 scale, comes to a close, we thought it might be fun to look at all the ways this character can be used in our toy photography—especially when it comes to scale. The beautiful thing about Ant-Man is his …

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MeWe Community Challenge: Family (wrap up)

MeWe Community Challenge: Family (wrap up)

Shelly December 21, 2019 4 Comments

It’s time to wrap up our MeWe community challenge: Family! The final tally among our three judges (Tomek, Matthew and myself) reveled a surprise tie! Jason and Alex share the honor of first place in a fun and diverse contest. Besides the awesome first prize of a LEGO Gingerbread House …

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Photo Contest: What Family Means to You

Photo Contest: What Family Means to You

Shelly November 20, 2019 4 Comments

What does family mean to you? Show us in a toy photo posted in our MeWe community and you will be entered to win a LEGO Creator Ginger Bread House!

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Casting a Spell: Photoshop vs Practical Effects (Part 1)

Casting a Spell: Photoshop vs Practical Effects (Part 1)

Alan Rappaport September 23, 2019 3 Comments

When Dave DeBaeremaeker brought up the idea of a friendly, Photoshop vs Practical Effects post I jumped at the opportunity to join him.

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Between a Brick and a Hard Place

Between a Brick and a Hard Place

James Gibbs August 16, 2019 3 Comments

Since starting on this toy photography path, I have been collecting and shooting articulated action figures. If you listened to my interview on the Toy Photographers podcast, I mentioned how I loved having a physical toy that reminds me of my youth. And although I didn’t say it in the …

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One World, Two Storytellers

One World, Two Storytellers

Ann @Megacolormix August 9, 2019 6 Comments

July brought a real diamond to the creative Toy Photographers’ community.

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Two Shot Challenge – the winners

Two Shot Challenge – the winners

Shelly August 8, 2019 5 Comments

Recently Joshua Kittleson challenged our MeWe group to explore the classic cinematic two shot. Today I want to show you the winners of our successful MeWe Two Shot Challenge.

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The Two Shot Challenge

The Two Shot Challenge

Joshua Kittleson July 7, 2019 4 Comments

Its time to introduce our June Challenge from our MeWe community: the Two Shot Challenge Rather than a theme challenge I want to introduce a new concept: the compositional challenge. I’m in need of a good technical challenge and the lovely folks at The Photographers Blog have allowed me to …

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The toys that bind us

The toys that bind us

James Gibbs July 5, 2019 2 Comments

This hobby of toy photography is a fascinating thing — a large group of people around the world taking pictures of small, lifeless objects. I have mentioned in a previous post (click here to read) that it has forged unlikely friendships from all walks of life and corners of the …

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Exchange of Visions: collective experiment

Exchange of Visions: collective experiment

Ann @Megacolormix June 14, 2019 6 Comments

All the artists have their favorite methods, colors, words, but before everything else, they have their own visions. I decided to focus on the community as a collective of Storytellers and organized an experiment. Our friend Tomek was kind to take part in the project. Making mystical and cybernetic images, …

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#jantmanuary_2019 Recap and Contest Winners

#jantmanuary_2019 Recap and Contest Winners

Teddi Deppner February 15, 2019 4 Comments

This was the first year I really paid attention and participated in the #Jantmanuary fun, and it was a great experience. There were 1,244 posts in #jantmanuary_2019 as I write this blog. The variety of photos is fantastic, and it’s a subject that really lets the photographer’s imagination shine. Between the …

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Welcome to Apocalypseburg! review and LEGO Movie 2 sets giveaway!

Welcome to Apocalypseburg! review and LEGO Movie 2 sets giveaway!

brett_wilson February 12, 2019 4 Comments

Welcome to Apocalypseburg (70840) is big. Everything about it is big…including it’s photographic potential!

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