Taking a behind the scenes look at some of the recent photos of my Ruby Red dolls.
First the scene of them decorating the gingerbread house. Like usual I set everything up on a box on the kitchen counter. That's so the dolls are at roughly the height that their eyes would be if they were real children, which is important for shooting anything in forced perspective....
First the scene of them decorating the gingerbread house. Like usual I set everything up on a box on the kitchen counter. That's so the dolls are at roughly the height that their eyes would be if they were real children, which is important for shooting anything in forced perspective....
Jan had been baking chocolate cakes that morning for our granddaughter's birthday, so I scraped some of the last batter out of his mixing bowl, and smeared it on the doll size bowls, to represent 'gingerbread'. I also wanted 'icing', so spooned some yogurt onto the edges of the mixer bowl. Then, when the background was clear of 'giants' I took close-up photos of the dolls...
Then for the Christmas Morning scene I posed the dolls in the 'contemporary' Christmas interior on the end of the dining room table...
The posing was extra challenging since I wanted variety in the doll's positions, but even though they are 'articulated', they aren't exactly the best posers, and won't hold many positions.
I had Sara standing, and Bella sitting flat on the ground, both of which were easy poses, but I wanted variety and wanted Alex to be sitting on his knees. He is articulated at the hips and knees, but won't hold a knelling pose on his own, so I took a thick elastic band (the ones that come around our morning paper) to help him hold a kneeling position. He also needed elastics at the wrists so his hands would be pulled close enough together to actually hold something.
I had Sara standing, and Bella sitting flat on the ground, both of which were easy poses, but I wanted variety and wanted Alex to be sitting on his knees. He is articulated at the hips and knees, but won't hold a knelling pose on his own, so I took a thick elastic band (the ones that come around our morning paper) to help him hold a kneeling position. He also needed elastics at the wrists so his hands would be pulled close enough together to actually hold something.
Then it was just a matter of hiding the elastics so they didn't show in the photos...
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