Three Simple Ways to Jumpstart Your Creative Flow
Are you feeling creatively stuck? Are you unsure where to take your work next? Here are three simple ways to jumpstart your creative flow.
Learning to Embrace the Holidays
Do the holidays inspire your toy photography? Shelly is learning to embrace the holidays as inspiration for her own creative endevours.
Rainbows: Six-Image Narrative Challenge Winner
Congratulations to Tony Tulloch (@tonytulloch_tp), Joshua Kittleson (@thegreyklerik) and Sunny Ang (@zekezachzoom)!
Conversation with Vesa Lehtimäki
Recently I sat down and had a conversation with Vesa [...]
Join the Toy Photographers Online Meet-Up!
While all activities will be virtual and socially distanced, this won't stop us from connecting, sharing our toy photography set-ups and collaborating!
Low-Key Discussion
Besides our talk about low-key lighting, we also explore how the pandemic is affecting our creativity and other dilemmas.
Tips & Tricks: Building Backgrounds from Your Recycle Bin
Toy photography doesn't have to cost a fortune. Learn how to build effective backgrounds using items from your recycling bin.
Toy Photographers Podcast: Abyss – A Series of Choices
Enjoy Kristina and Shelly's podcast discussion about the deeper meanings that can be found in toy photography.
Toy Conference Calls
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!
What Is Normal and How Can Toy Photography Portray it? A New Podcast
Toy Photographers Shelly Corbett and Kristina Alexanderson explore capturing "Normal" in our chosen art form and discuss in a new podcast.
Toy Photographers Podcast: COVID-19 and Creativity
In the latest Toy Photographers podcast: Shelly Corbett talks with Alan Rappa, Luigi Priori and Anna Bitanga about COVID-19 and Creativity.
Film vs. Digital: A Psychological Study
Toy Photographer Matthew Wyjad examines the psychological effect of the digital age of photography, and challenges us to retrain our brains...
Protecting Your Creative Space: Social Isolation and COVID-19
As I write this, the world is rapidly shutting down [...]
Toy Photographers Share Advice for Our Younger Selves
Toy photographers answer the question, "What advice would you give your younger self, if you could send a message back to when you first started toy photography?"
Keep Going – by Austin Kleon, a book review
This is a review of a new book by Austin [...]
5 Cool Toy Photography Tools For $15 or less!
When I first got started in toy photography one of [...]
Road Trip – or how to travel with toys and family
Like most toy photographers and also amidst a growing trend, [...]
Podcast 57: Exploring Creativity with Kristina Alexanderson
How do we define creativity? Exploring this elusive question is [...]
The Toying with bright ideas series: Using the Sun as your main light source
So over the last little while, I have been watching [...]
Grub Street: a toy photography project
Grub Street emerged from the photocopied pages of a zine. [...]