Today is the first day of Spring, and the huge piles of snow we had just two weeks ago are completely gone. Thankfully I took advantage of the snow several times while we still had it. This set of photos was taken after the first of three snow storms when there wasn't a lot of snow yet. I like setting up my scenes in the raised garden as it's so much easier to set up and take photos. I positioned the door against the tree trunk, and sprinkled snow over the little trees I'd borrowed from Jan's Christmas village. Then I added the mice and their BBQ.... Then I got in close to take the photos... These photos were taken a few days later after another two storms had dumped a record amount of snow. I positioned the dolls on top of the snowbank beside our driveway in order to use forced perspective to make the dolls look like they were out in our neighbourhood.... Then I took the photos closer up, and straight at the doll's eye level.... These photos were taken several weeks later after most of the huge piles of snow had melted. I set up the dolls in the upper garden. Then I sat down on the bench to take the close up photos... ..change the doll's poses, and take more photos...
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Dorothy
3/20/2025 11:43:55 am
Thanks for sharing your "secrets." It all looks so magical.
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Martha
3/20/2025 11:50:35 am
I love photos taken in the snow, but sometimes there's way too much.
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Donna
3/22/2025 05:52:11 am
You use forced perspective so well that your dolls look like real children! Seeing the "big picture", then seeing how you've cropped it is another lesson in photography.
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Martha
3/22/2025 06:56:24 am
That's what forced perspective is all about - making the background look like the dolls belong in it.
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AuthorMartha Boers is an award-winning Canadian doll maker and costumer specializing in fantasy and historical-style costumes. Archives
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