How Far We've Come (your oldest and most recent photo)

Earliest photo I have in my Flickr.
Shot on: 9 May 2010
With a: Fujifilm Finepix J27 point-and-shoot, (badly) edited in Picnik.



Latest photo.
Shot on: 19 May 2012
With a: Canon EOS 60D, unedited.

 

Sadly I don't have my old photo's but I can show the first
photo I took of my new little girl and the most recent.

Old



Recent



I can see a bit of improvement, especially with positioning the doll to look more alive.

 

My oldest photo was about the beggining of this year so will be a rough 6 Month difference as my newest was taken only this month :P

Camera Used: Canon Ixus55

Oldest:

Very first photo took of him but wouldn't of dreamed of putting it up for others to see :P

Lol first proper photo i took of him that i would show to people, also he had a black wig on in this

Newest: (Taken with the same camera)

Newest one yet :P

 

This is such an exciting thread. I honestly don't think I have improved that much, I which I had come further on my photography road. The newest picture is not edited, I was just lucky with my camera. The oldest one is edited slightly.

This photo was taken on April 2, 2012 using a Sony NEX-5.

Peppi. by © Hannah K., on Flickr

This photo was taken on June 28, 2010.

T h a l i a ( n o t m y d o l l ) . by © Hannah K., on Flickr

 

I've done all my photos with the same camera, a Nikon CoolpixP80.

Feb. 8 2010



June 3 2012 (Yes, it's the same bjd X°D)

 

Oldest:
August 2008 - An Olympus point-and-shoot I stole from my sister for a day.


Newest:
This morning - Canon EOS 1100D


Still have a long way to go... but at least there has been improvement! ^^

 

Date Taken: Mar 31, 2012
doll type: -Illusion Spirit Ardi-
Canon PowerShot A720 IS



Date Taken: Jun 7, 2012
doll type: - fei DollZone -
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi

 

Date Taken: 01-02-2006
Doll TYpe: Luts Chi-woosoo mod
Camera: Kodak CD33 Zoom Digital


Date Taken: 06-14-2012
Doll Type: Iplehouse Bichun
Camera: Canon XSi - 50mm f1.8 lens

 

OK I'll paly.

Oldest that is still here is Shigure a Dollstown Hue. First pics I took of him were over 4 years ago and with a basic point & shoot digital that was a hand me down from hubby.

He switched bodies with another DT boy soon after this so it's rare to see him with his first body.

Newest, well he is new to me, although many others have come since. But he is only one who has been outside. This is Renji my Pale Tan Dollshe Saint. This pic was taken after I got my new camera a Canon DSLR Rebel Ts3i. I have learned to go with flow of pics, that sometimes one can show a part of a doll and convey a feeling or a thought. I have high hopes my photos will get better as DH retired and we can travel now with no limits on time of year or if he can get time off.

 

Since I have just gotten a DSLR, here's another comparison!

Date Taken: 24.08.2008
Camera Model: Sony DSC-T50
Doll Model: Dollzone Mo

The most awesome picture ever!!
( aka. The horror of one of my first shots of my first ever doll.)


Date Taken: 24.06.12 (Today)
Camera Model: Nikon D90
Doll Model: MNF Karsh

 

I... really had no idea what I was doing when I started.

May 2007:


Same character, June 2012:

 

Ok so I'm totally new to this forum, and I've not posted pics anywhere yet, but I still want to contribute to this thread:

Oldest

Date: Jan 12th 2012
Camera: Olympus D-720
Doll Sculpt: Planetdoll Mini Riz



So this is my first BJD pic ever. Yeah, I know XD well the thing is, I came home at lunchtime just to open my package, I was SO happy, I had to take a pic and go back to work at once ^^

Newest

Date: Jun 30th 2012
Camera: Olympus D-720
Doll sculpt: Iplehouse JID Tania



Even though I've so much yet to learn, I'm quite satisfied of the progress I've made

 

Oldest:
November 2009, the first shoot of Riona after her face-up and blushing were completely done. Fuji FinePix S602.


Newest:
July 2012, same doll, different face-up, eyes and wig. Sony Alpha a290.

Elven Princess 4 by Mittebam, on Flickr

I think I have improved xD

 

Taken: Sometime in early 2009 with a random point and shoot.
Crobidoll Yeon-ho.


Taken: 20 July 2012 with a Canon EOS 600D + standard kit lens
Crobidoll Kyul

 

Both pics were taken with the same point and shoot camera.
Hopefully one day I can get a more awesome camera. ; A;

One of my Oldest: 'o9


One of my Newest: '12

 

Oldest one:
Taken on 24 May 2011 with a Canon camera. It had 7 megapixels.


Newest one:
Taken on 8 August 2012 with a Canon camera. It has 16 megapixels.


I improved a lot. I learned how to work with different layers and started to use brighter colours. They make the pictures look much happier.

 

One of my very first, somewhere around october 2010:



And one of my last a few days ago. The only thing that remained the same is the font for the tag.
New camera and finally purchased Photoshop hehe ^_^

 

This is my very very first official BJD photo. It was taken in 2008 with a Canon AE-1 35mm SLR on Fujifilm 800 film. The doll is a Latidoll LE Aida



This is one of my most recent photos. It was taken with a Canon Rebel XS DSLR with a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens. The doll is a Zaoll Dreaming Luv.



I'm just gonna let those speak for themselves.

 

Ahahahaha, omg. My photo skills have come so far, and so has Abishai!

First pic of Shai ever:



And from his most recent photoshoot, which was admittedly last year:



Yeah. I've... learned a few things.

 

Same character, different sculpts.

2011. Shot with a Lumix point-and-shoot (model TZ1)



2012, about 2 months ago. Shot with a Lumix GF1 4/3 DSLR with an Olympus 10 lens. (35mm?)



Neither photos were edited. ^_^

 

oh goodness. i have always loved photography but when i first got starla i was awful at taking pictures of her! i didn't know the best way to edit them or how to capture her in the right light. it's only been a few months but i think i've come a LONG way.


from starla's first photoshoot


and her most recent

starla's changed a lot too! she almost looks like a different doll.

 

This is such a great thread

Oldest
●Description: The oldest photo on my Flickr photostream is of my very first BJD. At first I wasn't very interested in photography since I wanted to use my BJD mostly for posing references for my illustrations.
●Camera: Olympus C750UZ (point and shoot camera)
●Date: May 28, 2008

38 by ***Andreja***, on Flickr

Oldest 2
●Description: This was taken after I got my new camera (dslr). A full year has gone by since the photo above and there was no improvement whatsoever. At that time I was more interested in learning how to paint faceups than anything else.
●Camera: Nikon D90 with default kit lens
●Date: April 4, 2009

Bye bye faceup by ***Andreja***, on Flickr

Newest
●Description: another 3 years have gone by, and somewhere along the road I have fallen in love with photography I hope this passion will help me to improve further.
●Camera: Nikon D90 with Sigma 50mm macro lens
●Date: Sept 8, 2012

Tara Redhead [700px] by ***Andreja***, on Flickr

 

I haven't been taking photos of him for very long.
But you can see the difference it makes when you know what your cameras strong points/weaknesses are.

Both taken with the same point&shoot vivitar x225
May 2012



September 2012



Not as amazing as some of you guys, but I feel I've made progress

 

My earliest doll photos happened to have both bxw and color photos, so I'll just include both ^^ Left is the old photo and right is the new one.

Old
Date: 24 August 2009
Camera: Canon 450D, 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens

New
Date: 3 October 2012
Camera: Canon 5Dmkii, Canon 50mm f/1.8

 

Just wanted to re-do that.



First photo, taken with a Sony DSC-S500, edited with...MS Paint.
Taken August 2008.




Most recent ones, taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 100mm 2.8 L Macro lens, edited with Photoshop CS3.
Taken September/October 2012.

 

first time doing this! oh snap!
before used a kodak point and shoot taken may 30th 2012


after used a pentax digital fancy thing...taken october 16 2012

 

Uhhh I love this. I will take the same doll (also still same face-up) to show only the photographic difference =D

Very first Pic of my doll:
-26th January 2010
-shot with Panasonic DMC-FX100
-6mm f/2.8
-also way too many effects xD


Newest pic of the doll:
-22nd November 2012
-shot with Pentax K-r
-35mm f/4.5

 

Okay, sooo!
December 2009. Lorelei had just arrived.
I had a cheap Olympus FE310, it was bad as hell, so were my photography skills.

SORRY FOR THE EYESORE!! T^T



OMGWHITEBALANCEFLASHBADFOCUS *facepalm* Look at the picture on the right! The lamp in the background is more in focus than the doll herself! xD Actually, it's really lots of fun to browse old photo folders!




yeah. Now the recent one.



Lorelei - lights & shadows par Le Fil Rouge Photo, sur Flickr

Canon EOS 600D (T3i I think??) with 50mm 1.8, MAY 2013.

When I think about it, I can't believe how I've gone a long way since 2009. At that moment I wouldn't even have considered getting a DSLR. But I've grown fond of photography (maybe even more than dolls) and... here I am now. My BJD pics are viewable. Without the viewer's eyes melting. Yay!

 

Wow awesome Thread! O.o It's really amazing how much some people improved in just little time.

One of my first photos back in 2008 (with crappy mobile camera)



and one from last week with Canon EOS 1100D

 

One from the week Celine arrived shot with my crappy Blackberry cell phone camera(posing in the coffin I was building for her):



And one from this week shot with my new Sony Nex-5R:

 

Oldest

• August 2009
• Using an HP PhotoSmart M537
• Horrible faceup by me O_o (you can see my cats in the background XD)

Second oldest

• Then I apparently didn't take any photo's for like 3 years.
• May 2012
• Fujifilm FinePix S2700HD.
• A little better but the contrast is crazy o_o

Newest

• February 2013
• Canon EOS T3i

I'd like to think I've gotten better.

 

2007, my first doll, not even out of the box yet and taken with an older point and shoot:



Focus? What's that? Also, photography in general can eat my shorts.

2013 - same doll, eyes and faceup, now with added bonus of wig, clothes and baby, taken with a Canon Rebel 400D:



Turns out there's these things called light, Photoshop and posing. Who knew? And I want a DSLR now because photography is a main hobby of mine.

 

Here is a very early picture of Nefret:


a more recent one (taken on my cel phone):

 

Jan 18, 2010


a few days ago:

 

This is the first picture I took of my first doll out of her box. It was December 2007 and the camera was a Canon Ixus 40.



This is my last picture, taken earlier this week with my Nikon D40


Mari and Montana by siruveru, on Flickr

I wasn't interested at all in photography when I got my first doll, which was a surprise. I'm quite amazed at how things have evolved

 

06/10/2010
DIM-JULLIS
Camera: Sony digital camera


DIM-JULLIS
05/04/2012
Camera: Canon 7D 80mm/f2.8

 

16th Aug 2005 (Has it been that long? O_o;; )
Photo taken with Panasonic Lumix LC33.


11th Feb 2010
Photo taken with Panasonic Lumix GF-1, 20mm f1.7 lens


Seems like I only upgraded my camera and photoshop skills. ^^;;

 

Doll: Andromeda (Resinsoul Ya)
Camera: Kodak point & shoot
June 2012





Doll: Andromeda (RS Ya) with a new wig, eyes & face-up
Camera: Nikon D3100
April 2013

 

November 2010-ish... Brace yourselves. This is definitely the worst of the worst.
(Point and shoot Sony Cybershot I think)

(Lol what's a hairbrush?)

May 2013
Shot with DSLR Sony A290

 

This is a really fun thread.

This isn't my oldest photo, but it is one of the first that I started to put thought into my pictures, so I figured I would start here.

Started out with a Nikon Coolpix with fluorescent lighting.
Taken in November 2012

Then I purchased a Nikon D3100.
January 2013

And then I started to focus on posing.
May 2013

And now I'm relearning Photoshop.
Yesterday

I still have a way to go, but I like the progress I see.