Technique "Flowing"/hair in-the-wind effect?

I have no idea if this will actually work, but a guess is that a blowdryer on the cool low setting might do the trick. I think you're right that a regular fan would be too strong but a blowdryer held a ways away might work! Or maybe one of those little foam personal fans?

 

I Once was a person who used threads to achievr that effect.

 

The photographer of that dollfie dream Miku uses clear figure stands and edits them out

 

This isn't exactly the same, but you could always use a yarn wig to get that flowing effect!

 

The first photo makes me think of this technique:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=Q1Ric0ptd09NbkZrdGlzZWx5a25HOHdSRnlMbmdR

You might be able do by yourself but it's probably easier with a friend to do the hair while you take the photo like they show in this tutorial.

 

I suppose that using a fishing wire control parts of hair & photoshop would work.

 

I always wondered this not only with hair but with how some dolls are posed. That instagram is actually very helpful to see behind the scenes of photos.

 

Maybe it would be harder with a blow dryer but the result would be more natural. Be careful, don't do like in the first picture where the hair are in the wind, but it's indoor and the window is closed, it makes the result weird!!

 

You could use a blowdryer, or maybe a regular standing fan would be easier since you don’t have to hold it up while you’re shooting? But you could also just take your doll outside and turn them into the wind. Especially if your doll’s hair is a lighter fiber like mohair or synthetic mohair... it’s going to move whether you want it to or not, so you might as well embrace it.

Or you could do what my doll did in this shot and get artistically tangled in the bush in the background.

 

Depending on what the wig is made of and how easy it is to clean, something like this could be done with styling gel or styling putty to shape it. I wouldn't try that with mohair/fur or yarn or any sort of plant-based material, but for nylon/other synthetics it would work. You'd just have to wash it as soon as you were done to avoid it getting gunky and collecting dust/debris.

If you had a wig that you wanted to have that kind of style all the time you could use clear-drying gluesticks or white craft glue. You'd have to find a way to hold the hair in the right position while it dried, though. Again, I wouldn't recommend that for any sort of yarn or fur or mohair.

 

Here is the how-to photo for one of them.

 

I used my shop vac where you can hook up the hose to the air coming out. An example is of the picture of my doll Sophie below. I was able to direct the "wind" where I wanted it. It didn't turn out great but still, I learned a lot. It was the only set I have done so far of a wind as a subject point but I like how I got that the individual strands of hair and the clothes flowed. The only thing is you will probably need a remote to take the picture as I did because I was so far from the camera.

 

That using of clear stands are a good idea specially if one is good with photoshop, you can also used transparent tread or twigs and then erase them... still it will take some photoshop knowledge.

 

I was able to achieve such an effect with a table fan.
It had to be on a low setting. High didn't work at all...

Stormy by Tom Beach, on Flickr

 

Watch out for the angle of your wind if you are outside. I had a gust of wind constantly coming from behind my doll and it got the hair all tangled, it wasn't my best photo op.

 

Does anyone know how you would edit out the stands if you used them? Thanks in advance x

 

The best way would be to put your camera on a tripod
or other solid stand, photograph the background first
then place your doll and using the same exposure take
your final photo, Layer the doll photo over the background image
and align them. Then just erase out the stands. You don't even
need to be careful except where the stand meets the hair.

 

you can use wire. It's done with a lot of cosplay wigs. That and/or got2b spray. Or you could just flat out use a hand held fan and do a video and then pause it to get the snapshots you want to set it to take a shit ton of photos all in one go

 

Mini fans (the handheld ones for at theme parks, sports events and such - the disney parks make some super cute ones). Make sure to secure the wig to the head cap so the whole thing doesn't go flying off though.

 

I think there is some kind of special gel for the wig but can't remember the name of it. Should clean asap after done.

 

I personally either use real wind if I'm outside and lucky, but otherwise I use my fan on the high setting, this way for me its easier for the effect to be more noticeable and easier to capture the visual impact. Though my fiber wigs hate it

Wind by Amanda Greenway, on Flickr

Wind by Amanda Greenway, on Flickr
this was like a year ago! oh how things change.