Recap of Our MeWe Community Challenges
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!
Category: Photo Challenge
Finding New Places in the Real World
“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 …
Playing with Scale: Ant-Man Toy Photography
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 …
MeWe Community Challenge: Family (wrap up)
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 …
Photo Contest: What Family Means to You
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!
Casting a Spell: Photoshop vs Practical Effects (Part 1)
When Dave DeBaeremaeker brought up the idea of a friendly, Photoshop vs Practical Effects post I jumped at the opportunity to join him.
Between a Brick and a Hard Place
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 …
One World, Two Storytellers
July brought a real diamond to the creative Toy Photographers’ community.
Two Shot Challenge – the winners
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.
The Two Shot Challenge
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 …
The toys that bind us
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 …
Exchange of Visions: collective experiment
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, …
#jantmanuary_2019 Recap and Contest Winners
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 …
Welcome to Apocalypseburg! review and LEGO Movie 2 sets giveaway!
Welcome to Apocalypseburg (70840) is big. Everything about it is big…including it’s photographic potential!
The LEGO Movie 2 Minifigure Review
Thanks to The LEGO Group, we’ve been given the opportunity to review the upcoming LEGO Movie 2 Collectable Minifigure series due for official release on February 1, 2019.
MeWe Challenge: Fairytales
November saw our first monthly photo challenge across G+, Flickr and our new home MeWe. The theme for November’s challenge was fairytales! As well as the usual fun and the chance for the winner’s photograph to adorn the MeWe community’s banner, we also had a fitting prize attached. To go …
G+ Challenge: Spooky
After carefully looking through last months G+ Challenge: Spooky, one thing is very clear – you guys LOVE Halloween! From the spooky to the funny to the truly frightening, the members of the G+ Community showed their holiday spirit. One of the great aspects of Toy Photography is that you …
Riddikulus contest!
Toy Photographers are excited to announce that we have another creative toy photography contest, a Riddikulus contest! And you could win the LEGO Hogwarts Castle and other Harry Potter LEGO by entering!
September G+ Community Challenge
Today I would like to celebrate the entries in our September G+ Community Challenge: Food!
The Lume Cube Ultimate Toy Photo Contest
Last weekend Shelly and I had the unenviable task helping judge the winners of Lume Cube’s Ultimate Toy Photo Contest.