Your most Extravagant Photoshoot

Each blossom was hand placed (on a semi-windy day).

 

Something like this? This is my coolest photoshoot ever so...
Domodov as "the God of No Religion"

 

I think it was definitely these two:

The KH2 pics Sam and I took of Sora and Judas (We made their costumes and drove 2 hours to find a beach):



the rest here>>> http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85061&highlight=Sora+Judas

And also this one of Carrie (I brought him to my college and then I took the time to walk a long way through the snow to find a graveyard and spent hours in the cold trying to photograph him XDD ):







The rest here>>> http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116343&highlight=carrie

 

From last shooting before new faceup

 

This took forever to set up. D:

 

That would definately have to be Armand and Avril's wedding. It was WAY over the top extravagant photoshoot. LOL

here's a link
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123558&highlight=wedding

 

I like full backrounds when I take my photos, like a sea or green grass and one of my boys nestled in the color. Erebos's recent shoot was one of the best I've gotten where almost every shot I took looked great, even the ones in the snow weren't all that swell. That his costume really went well with the colors, even though I'm not finished with it yet.
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137961

 

I've done a few with the full Turtle House room sets... but I've never really been pleased with the lighting. 8P

Tien Jen's room... Although you can't see much of the set


Serras & Sannru's room...


The sitting room...

 

this one definitely took the most effort.... and its still not good enough... >.<"

 

I dunno, but going around my yard and hanging Shiwoo from trees without him falling was pretty tough:


This was surprisingly easy:




And getting Toby to sit still in agonizing poses was hard cause he kept falling over:

 

Well, this is the most SOMANYPROPS photoshoot. My mum ran an egg hunt for the kids of the estate this Easter so I stole all her eggs, an old baby blanket and a mirror for lighting. o__o Not my best but I love the colours. :'D

 

This took forever to set up.



I love this photoshoot, I keep referring to it. ^_^



If only for the paranoia of the swords falling before I was done.

 

Crazy idea with satisfying outcome I suppose.. No photoshop in this one.




And then there was this... I actually had to bring half a sack of potting soil into my livingroom for this
The tree is a real one though. (yup it's dead)

 

I've done a few that I put a lot of work into the set up:

[Pink and Candy] The set:



[Pink and Candy]

 

I did a series of photos featuring Elfdoll Catsys in scenes from the Nero Wolfe mystery stories (83 pics in all) which used many 1/12 scaled miniatures, some one-of-a-kind, some I made myself. Here are a few examples.

 

Probably this one here -> Puki tea party


It was a lot of setup. And we tried a few different kinda lightings before settling on this one.

 

The most props we have done so far is The Cosy Corner:



There's simulated green tea in the cup, and crumbs on the platter, not that you can tell...



In the surprisingly difficult department was this shot from the Sugar and Spice photoshoot:



Yume's hand did not want to rest on each Sakurahime's. First we tried to coax them to do it with white tac... But in the end we had to resort to a bit of nylon thread and tied their hands together!

 

My most extravagant photo shoot was last month on our road trip to the Pacific. We explored the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park (Alberta, Canada) and spent the night at the Icefields Center right beside the terminal moraine for the Athabasca Glacier. It was freezing cold, so I in my parka took a small carpet so I could lay on the frozen ground to get the right angle to photograph my doll with Snow Dome Glacier in the background.



You can see more of the photos from that morning's photo shoot at; http://www.denofangels.com/forums/s...s-Quest-(Elfdoll-Ryung)&p=7066516#post7066516

 

Probably this one. It took awhile to put all the moss down, make and cut out the grave stones and twist up the trees. Not to mention actually convince all three trouble-makers to stand up.

 

I love props.



I love flea markets.

 

Mine was either last Christmas:


Or Sadie and Rowan's joint wedding.

 

I was just going to mention that you should post here....
This is mine, due to the costumes and getting all of them together:

 

Three years ago, I set up a group photo with about half of my resin kids. The set wasn't fancy, but the posing was a challenge and seemed to take forever:



Then I arranged for Part Two. At the time I had nearly as many floating heads as I had complete dolls, (I still do) so I decided to give most of the floaters their day in the sun. This meant removing nine heads from bodies, redressing some, and re-posing the whole lineup. And wouldn't you know? Many of them slept through the whole thing!

 

Mine was this one. (naked warning)
Artificial

IMG_2938 by RacColour, on Flickr

 

Anyone who knows me as a doll photographer knows that I have very little courage to create photos outside of my own house, so this abandoned cottage shoot was kind of a big deal for me:




I went through three different set-ups before finally finding one that worked with this outfit (draping thin white fabric over a window in case you're curious). These are probably Hansel's fanciest clothes even though making the stuff was a walk in the park.




(This one's a little big, sorry! x: )
This shoot was basically my way of saying "We have too many god-forsaken wires in the house!"
While I did a terrible job capturing the details in Hansel's clothes, this outfit was the biggest pain in the ass to make, mostly because it required me to make some HUUUUGE pattern pieces for the skirt and the layered sleeves turned out to be way more confusing than I thought they would.

 

On a three day camping trip we took along a car load of dolls and props to shoot several episodes of photostories...

We converted the bunkbeds in a Yurt to a Elven Pub ....

Here's the Yurt......


Here's the bunk bed conversion in progress.....

 

This shoot started because a friend had a soap dish to use as Alice's bath tub. We spent quite a long time getting all the props together and then worrying over lighting.

 

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I don't usually do elaborate setups, but I've done a few that took some effort.

This one isn't a big setup, prop wise (what props?) but it notable because I got all of my dolls in one photo. All are standing or sitting unsupported and are not touching each other. Most are even looking at the camera.


My favorite and probably most elaborate setup was a joint effort with my best friend, Kataxenna. My Zephyrus and her Satine got married. Shown are their two kids and a few friends.




Last is Ember. She's always been a 'go all out' kind of girl, and her photoshoots demand I do the same.

(had to behead most of my male dolls for this. haha AND place them so nobody's junk was showing to the camera...lol)





She was also in the second Next Top Doll Model competition, but I wont share any of those photos or I'd go past the 12 image limit.

 

Wow! So many great shoots in this thread! Kind of makes my head spin! Frank, that Yurt camping/doll photoshoot trip sounds like a blast! Where do you post all your photostories?

 

Extravagance by location? Here is Alegro at the Biltmore House in Asheville.


Extravagance in price? This outfit was the most expensive clothing item I've bought for him.


Extravagance in set-up and prop price? That boy loves his pearls. They were rolling everywhere! Those photographs were difficult to set up. The windowsill was so slim, the pearls were flopping everywhere...

 

This is about as extravagant as it got OTL



And now it's not letting me put more pictures - but in all honesty this is the most interesting photo that I have that isn't just a plain background color/backdrop //sob

 

So far it's a tie between these two:


It was a pain redoing the flowers in her hair after every fall. And she managed to fall 4 times. Not to mention coordinating my shots with the fountain that decided to go out...rythmically. (and the passerbys...what on earth were they doing out there at 6am on a Sunday morning?!)

The other one is this:


Took me approximately 2 years to find a good, dinky place to shoot...not occupied by actual homeless people. Posing was also tricky because I had to accomodate my point'n'shoot...while still indicating some perspective and movement. Yah.

 

My beloved Sebastian Blackwood and Camellia LeFleur out at the park. I just adore how this picture turned out.

 

My most extravagant shoot is probably actually this one: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/s...hains-Kevya-IH-Barron-mod-LA-body-(Scar-Mods)
The set is deceptively simple looking, but required a lot of work to put together, with the reeds/straw and the chains and shackles, and then a lot of lighting adjustment, and then a good fifty or so shots to get the maybe six that end up in the shoot. There was also a lot of time spent posing, and angling the camera.

 

Well, there was the Halloween Party, which required setting (my characters do live in a human-sized world, but it still demands décor), and costumes for all:




Then, there was the massive Easter Presentation, which required a show:

and an audience:

 

Michi &lt;3 by Shirelae, on Flickr

This is my most eloberate photo. The cat toy thing was handmade by me and I wasn't sure it could hold the doll's weight. Luckily it did. I am not happy with the lame background, but I wasn't comfortable taking pictures outside. :s

 

that must be this shoot


(mera is Little Lost Pixie's doll)

or this one

(Ace is little lost Pixie's doll)

 

This one for sure.
Made the table, rattan bench, all of the posters and comic books. Shopped for mugs and dishes. Used blackboard cupboard door and corkboard for the walls of the bar.
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This one - from a photoshoot today, but a while in the planning gathering the props and buying the boat on ebay!

 

Real candles and real fire
(I used photoshop to blur the bottoms of the candles on background, but that's all)


&#4416; fire by Kinomi &#10047;, on Flickr


&#4416; fire by Kinomi &#10047;, on Flickr

 

This one. My Limhwa half elf) in Sealife Scheveningen,Netherlands. There's a sea urchin in the background. ah wel,,I think it is but it is an animal.

 

I put my precious killer in pink.

 

model backstage

 

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Minimee Brad Pitt as Louis the Vampire with Cream Soda Luna Tamer as his new love. Custom clothing and shoes on him, Soda Atelier dress of roses for her. Photographed at the 250 + year old antebellum cemetary Oakdale in Wilmington NC at the same location used for many scenes in the current television show "Sleepy Hollow". ( The rest of this photoshoot is in the photostory section under the title "Daywalker")

 

My most extravagant illustrated story was Winter's tale
http://photosbytom.net/PDF/Winters_Tale.pdf
as it included several of my dolls in the roles and
different sets. Ironically this image wasn't used in
the final version.

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Sorry for the small pictures, photobucket resized them >.<