I take all my exterior 'garden' doll scenes on the table on my backyard patio. Right now it's late September and the garden is starting to fade into fall...
But all the photos of Agnes and Matias in their garden were taken in August, when everything was much fresher. Every spring I always buy several baskets of million bells, with their small in-scale flowers, to serve as background for my doll's 'gardens'. I set up a scene, with the upper garden and urn in the background, but then the dolls are backlit because the open sky is behind them. So a white card is always necessary to bounce light onto the dolls, and because the table isn't big enough for something to support the white card, I always need a volunteer to hold it for me...
The white card bounces light onto the dolls. Unfortunately the pillar in the background isn't tall enough so I have to extend it higher in Photoshop....
The scene with Agnes visiting Naomi also needed a white card. But I'd gotten tired of always having to extent the top of the pillar, so Jan added an extension to the top...
I take the photos using forced perspective, but that still has certain limitations to consider. I need to take the photos close to the dolls in order to make the urn on the pillar in the background look a reasonable size, but then the pillar (and everything else including the dolls) will start to flare out towards the sides. But if I get further back away from the table to get a better view of the dolls, and then zoom in, the urn on the pillar starts to become too big and somewhat out of scale.
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