Happy New Year, friends. I wish you a year filled with dolls and miniature crafts! What is your New Year's resolution for 2025? Mine is to write more posts for my blog and find more ways to reuse things like plastic packages for miniature crafts.
I am sharing how I quickly took photos to attend my friend's New Year's Eve party. This hack comes in handy when you don't have time to set up a diorama but want to participate in a hashtag challenge. I developed this hack when I realized I am not so good at building a large diorama😅 There have been many times I spent time and energy to set up a diorama scene for a hashtag event and ended up not posting any photos because of poor quality. I am not saying this to pity myself but to share how my realization of what I am not good at led to discovering a new way to take a doll photo.
Quick Hack: Party Dress
My friend @breizhdolls invited us to a New Year's Eve party #breizhdollsnyeparty2024. (the party is still going until Jan.2 2025 if you want to attend it.) Although there was no dress code, I wanted to dress my doll in something fancy. This dress is made of a black hairband. Because a hairband was already in a tube, all I needed to do was to cut it to a length I liked. (I sewed a bit around on the top edge to make it nice but that's totally an option.) The dress has burgundy puffy sleeves made of a scrunchie that my daughter won as a prize at the Christmas party. I did not sew it to the black dress. The scrunchie is just hanging the doll's arms through the back of the doll.
Quick Hack: Elevator Backdrop
I decided to make a scene of dolls in the elevator talking about going to the party. So I searched online and found a photo of an empty elevator for a backdrop. Then, displayed the photo on my PC screen and resized it by zooming in/out so the scale matched with dolls. With this hack, the difficult part is to hold dolls in front of a PC screen. Since I used two dolls in this scene, I created a booster by piling a few boxes.
Pick any photo you like as a backdrop. You can add specifics like store names, event signs, etc to make it more fun. (I usually use Canva to adjust photos.) Here are some of the scenes I made.
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| I added the name of the gym. |
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| My doll is at a book signing event hosted by @ifiwereadoll |
You are talented to create illusions, dear, and our hobby of doll photography, as many arts, is a question of perspective and illusion !! Bravo for those tips, and for your creativity ! 🤗🤗🤗
ReplyDeleteThank you for your sweet and kind words! I love that you call it illusions, not cheating! lol
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