My ag over 18 costume swap came! Here's Ivy wearing a new princess costume that chubbybunnie got her. Thank you, it's awesome!
There was a tag sewn in the back, so I did some eDetective work and found out that this dress came from the etsy shop Enchanted Designer. We all love people who do hand work, so go check her out and see if there's any costume there you might need!
So, at the Playthings forums, user k8c asked me about taking pictures of dolls with bangs. How do you get rid of the shadow over their eyes?
And my reaction was, "What shadow?" I'd never noticed. I have three different sorts of bangs in my collection: the little tiny bangs, the huge pie bangs, and no bangs. (I'm missing the new bangs, and I love you all, but I wasn't going to buy another doll just for this experiment. I grabbed three test subjects, took them outside, and put them in the sun:
Oh. See Sara, over there on the left? There's a shadow on her eyes. Huh.
Well, I don't know. Maybe different times of day would help? The picture above was taken around 9 AM.
Here we are at noon. Sara's looking better, but this might just be because of how she's positioned -- look at poor Jess and Ivy!
This one was in the late evening ... 8, I think? Actually, everyone's doing pretty well. That might be the trick, waiting until there's less light?
Actually, the best photo I took, I took around the tool shed in my yard.
Aside from the crappy posing, there's no real problem with the facial shadows. Nice! I took it in the shade, not the sun, which is the key.
This has to do with light diffusion -- the way the light is hitting your photography subject. There's plenty of science you can google if you want to read up on it, but mostly, light directly on your doll? Shadows. Light rays shuffled around? Less shadows.
That's probably why Sara doesn't look so bad in the noon photo -- my tomato plant is diffusing light for her. :-P!
If you've ever heard someone say that they like to shoot when the clouds are out? They're using clouds as a diffuser. Which may or may not work fine, depending on your clouds. If you've got a photographer's light, it probably has some sort of diffuser, like an umbrella or a screen. Even if you don't have one of those, as with all things, Google has your hook up.
Actually, the fill flash on your camera is supposed to act something like a light diffuser, but ...
... the flash on your camera sucks.
Mini Barbies! They look more, err, Barbie than just giving your doll a Skipper. I found them close to the crafts, just a bit off from the cards ... no idea why they weren't with the toys. Maybe because they're pens too?
what you see above are the only varieties my Wal Mart had, let me know if you see more.
The AG Playthings Forum has also been buzzing about doll size Apples to Apples games that Wendy's is apparently giving out. Man, they have good chicken nuggets, too.
First off, I did the Playthings Earth Day challenge. (Vote for me!)
It's not the most original picture, but growing food is important to me. It's another way to fight the man. Runs in the family, too.
Then, I got a few of Draculaura and Frankie:
"Is for girls!" said Chloe, our cat. "Is thing I knows, because car has a dolls, and also has a gray." Cats can't see color. She meant pink.
It took me for-frickin'-ever to get everybody stuffed in the roaster. I never had a Barbie car.
Hey! HEY. You use your turn signal, little missy! I'm not having my insurance go up because of you!
Then, Stica and I took our Puddle pictures. (Check out Puddle! Vote for me!)
She's getting featured because I really love that she's got hair tutorials on her site. They're very detailed. I never would have thought of it! Hey, Cate, this is for you:
Of course, you should all go check out her blog. There's plenty of pictures and videos to keep you entertained.
(Hey, Lucy, if you'd like to put that award on your blog, go ahead!)
Don't forget, you can tweet me pictures too! I'm always @beanstalktweets!
I tweeted out my own at the halfway point.
I discovered that AGLucychan had linked to me on her sidebar by following my traffic. One good turn deserves another! Hey, Lucy, you get to be:
Of course, you should all go check out her blog. There's plenty of pictures and videos to keep you entertained.
(Hey, Lucy, if you'd like to put that award on your blog, go ahead!_
I picked it out because it was different. It makes you stick out anyway.
You'll all vote for me, right? I kid, vote for who you like. (Don't forget to vote, though!)
Here's the other pictures I didn't enter.
I was so amused by the snow in Sara's hair that I had to get a photo. That's my coat sleeve in the lower left.
