Sunday, October 4, 2009
Note: This tutorial was made in 2009, I use a better camera and equipment now, maybe I will update it, soon after I'm done with 200 gazillion other things on my list. In the meantime, you just have to use this one, I hope you learn from it, and if you do please comment. Thank you xx ( October 2020)
This is my basic set up. I use 2 soft lights with a diffuser. I got my set from eBay, including the bulbs and umbrella diffusers. Inexpensive, and since I only use it indoors, it handles itself well.
Below is an example of a low budget setup. You can use any tabletop
lamp, bounce the light on a white paper board. Make sure to use daylight
light bulbs. And it’s better to do the shoot near a window in the
daytime to help with lighting.
This is the diagram on the lighting basics. I hope it’s clear enough.
The key is, don’t light the baby directly because it will look shiny and
harsh and not natural. We want the baby to look as natural as possible
as it is in person.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Meet Lilah. She is from a beautiful vinyl kit called Vivien, created by the talented Evelina Wosnjuk. Took me 2 days to paint her, I started in the afternoon of April 24th. Finished her face detailing, limbs, all blushed, and all creases the next day. Then I spent an hour painting her nails and shining her cute pouty lips the next day.This is the fastest I finished painting a doll. Way too excited to bring her alive, or 'lifelike'. So, basically 24 hours painting hours, which is pretty good, because Vivien kit is from the old batch which had an Orangey tone to it, so there had to be a few layers of paint to neutralized her first. I'm happy to see her baby face finally, and not just an empty vinyl doll kit.
Lilah is not for sale for the meantime, because I can't part with her (at least for now), this might sound crazy to a non doll people, I get attached to the dolls sometimes, I guess I'm a crazy doll lady. I'm okay with that. :) But there is another reason, it also because she has a booboo on her head due to an accident, I was distracted and didn't hear the timer. heat set paint is used for vinyl doll, so after each layer of paint, the doll goes into the oven to be heated for an exact 8 minutes, no more no less. So her head collapsed, I thought I ruined her totally, but it perked up again, only with a little bump on the top of her head. So to me that means I can't sell it because she is not 100% perfect (She is to me), although the bump will be covered by hair. So I'm moving on to the next doll for now, I'm not even going to do the rooting part since I'm keeping her anyway. In her photos she was using a Mohair wig. 😛
I hope you enjoy her photos, I loved photographing her, she is so photogenic. 🙂
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Update 1: She’s finished! I’m done rooting her hair last night, well, early morning actually. I spent 5 days working on her full blonde hair. I’m so in love with her! I love the type of feelings that creating something beautiful give me. (April 3rd, 2009)
Update 2: She’s finally assembled, officially 'reborned today'. She’s beautiful, with a gorgeous set of blue eyes and full blonde hair that is versatile to style, she can have cute curls or straight hair or combination of both. (April 15th, 2009)
Update 3: Kylin was adopted and is living with her new mommy in the USA. Kylin has helped me through a very very dark time in my life, losing the love of my life, my mom, on April 7th. Working on Kylin helps me shift my energy somewhere else because I am not ready to accept, and I don’t want to fall apart right now… 🙂 I hope you enjoy Kylin’s photos.. (May 6th, 2009)
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