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.
Tag: Inspiration
Delicious and Inedible!
It’s common knowledge that we can cook all kinds of food with LEGO bricks and imagination. You can build any life-size dish or choose items from the official menu. Apple, cherry or cake—I’m sure your minifigures eat some of these products every day. But how about the simplest details in …
These Toys Will Describe You Without Words!
It’s common knowledge that you not only buy toys in hypermarkets, but also get them as a bonus on purchases. However, some of these toys will make you laugh, and even little children can’t find them useful. BUT! I’ll show you the real exception! This collection is worth calling ‘toys’ …
LEGO Cindy Sherman
Hello Toy Photography Group. My name is @bevvypix I have been asked to take over your blog today by Shelly.
LEGO ‘Friends’ Restaurant 41379 Review
Welcome to the Heartlake City Restaurant, one of the best restaurants where you can enjoy Italian dishes!
LEGO Space Research and Development 60230 Review
Amazing news! You are invited to the Space Research and Development Complex!
One World, Two Storytellers
July brought a real diamond to the creative Toy Photographers’ community.
LEGO City 60235 “Fun Fair” Review
Summer is the best time for holidays and I’m excited to invite you to one of them – LEGO Fun Fair! Thanks a lot to Shelly and Brett for the great possibility to present this set to you and The LEGO Group for providing this wonderful set for review! The …
LEGO Building & Toy Photography
Do you like to combine LEGO Building and Toy Photography? If yes, your art is connected with many creative experiments! We can set the “Brick Photography” apart from other genres of toy art and discuss the best ways of using the bricks in our photos. Types of Brick Photography – …
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, …
“Minimates” action figures: The Amazing Spider Man
‘Minimates’ toy line gave me much positive emotions. Being a huge fan of ‘Spider Man’ movies, I chose my first collection and can say that it’s as Amazing as the Spider Man! The special square style is combined with the great atmosphere of the story. I created two dioramas and …
Welcome aboard, Astronaut! – “Space Station” 9487 Playmobil Review
Amazing news! If you share my interest in space adventures you’ll see a great treasure in this post.
What It Is
Today I wanted to talking about a cool book I read by the amazing cartoonist, writer and teacher, Lynda Barry.
How to make a Hologram for the toy photos
The toys inspire us to the search of the special places for outdoor pictures and creation of our own micro worlds. Would you like to make a shot of lightning without looking through the window? Is it possible to shoot a jellyfish without water and light? That’s what we are …
The “Toying with Bright ideas” series: Barn doors, laptops and snoots
Ask anyone who has ever picked up a camera, whether they are a professional or just snapping on their smartphone, what is the most important thing in photography? I’m hoping that 99% of the responses say light… Without light, there is no photo… period… Now for those of you who …
Grub Street: a toy photography project
Grub Street emerged from the photocopied pages of a zine. At the risk of showing my age, back in the early 90s I was into the zine culture. Now the memory of that zine has become my latest inspiration.
Custom Characters – Thirst for greater things
It’s so wonderful to get something unique and special when you tell your own story! When the official toy sets can’t satisfy all my wants they give me the motivation for the exciting creative process. Pens, pencils, paper, decorative clay and glue transform into the instruments for my micro workshop, …
The “Toying with Bright ideas” series: Painting with light
Lighting, in photography, is one of those things that looks simple to do, right? Shine a light, pop a flash and WALA! You have a great picture. But being able to understand what the light is doing and being able to control it is a skill and can make or …
The Role of Muses
Recently I’ve been pondering the role a muse plays in my artistic journey. This started when Dinoczar tagged me on an instagram post that quoted a letter Nick Cave had written to MTV. In this letter Nick graciously declined his nomination for Best Male Artist that year in fear of …
When the weather says “NO”
The winter is in the full play. It’s a good time for the snowy, bright and extreme shots!