| Most action figures don’t come with a stand, but what if it comes with a permanent stand? This faces many challenges for most toy photographer especially if your subject is either a free toy from a breakfast cereal or from a promo of a fast food restaurant that hinders its appearance to play in your imaginative story.
For the skilled individual it requires digital photo manipulation in digitally deleting the permanent stand, but what if you don’t have that particular set of skills? Would you just take the photo the way it should be or would improvise? |
Here’s a quick tip in what you should do, and it requires certain angles to make the subject more out of its natural look with a hindering stand. Sometimes you don’t have options in how you capture your subject with a permanent stand and with less knowledge in digital manipulation its time you use practical ways to capture your subject without the need in capturing the figure minus its stand.
For figures that require with a stand this also applies too. Though they’re already limited to be captured in photography you just make the most of it in trying to put the best composition.
Take a look at this example featuring a toy that was a promo for Hungry Jack’s in 2013 featuring Scribblenauts figurines with stands. They’re basically just static figures without articulation as they might be considered ‘art toys’ than your usual figures that’s ready for action.
Bane is one of the six figurines offered in the kid’s meal toy promo for Hungry Jack’s and most of the Scribblenauts packed in their black blind packaging have zero articulation. The part you may have a challenge in using them as part of your Toy Photography composition is the permanent black stands.
Right there you immediately see the limitation for them to be used in action shots and they’re good for close ups and challenging angle shots, which leaves this figurine less appealing, but the tip is make them more appealing through one great shot that can be part of the Bringing Toys to Life™ concept and making a great #1ShotStory that would actually work with your photography skills in capturing it minus the hindrance of the permanent stand that came with it.
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