#tinyworlds

[boringbones]

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[missedmilemarkers]

A bustling ant colony hard at work! The intricate teamwork of these tiny creatures never ceases to amaze me. 🐜✨

[cringecasket]

Polly Pocket Pretty Bunnies 1993

[jacqui-dennett]

Tiny Worlds Storytelling:  Lighting Diagram - Image 1

I was trying to show a man out sailing on a sunny day, however on the day that I shot this it was dull and very dark so, I used as much of the natural light as I could, I lit the scene from above with my LED light on yellow to try to keep a warmth to the image and as that still wasn’t light enough I included a lamp shining towards the front of the scene just to give it that extra bit of brightness to show a summers day.

I used the Canon Eos 2000d borrowed from the college

Camera settings - 

Aperture - f4.5 to try to make the cotton wool look more like clouds in the sky and to give an impression that the other boats were further away

Shutter Speed - 1/13 I wanted to keep the ISO down low to avoid noise / grain so this meant that the shutter speed had to be slow

ISO - 100 to avoid noise / grain in the image

Focal Length 34mm, this was as close as the camera would allow me to get and still focus.

Props used to make set - 

Blue card for sky and cotton wool balls for clouds

Used facemasks (resuse) for the sea

Paper from notepad to make boats

Toothpick flags

Lego man (borrowed from niece’s partners family) - Lucius or Draco Malfoy I think so he’s called LD

Unfortunately, the software that I used doesn’t allow me to resize things so the window looks a lot bigger than it should and intrudes into the light at the backs space, but this is a close approximation of the lighting used for this image.

Image 1

To begin LD goes sailing on a beautiful summers day, fresh air he thinks just the thing to blow the cobwebs away.......

[pixilation]

Tiny lichen foxes 🌱🍄 posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CanOooPuWzp/

[michaelamccrum]

Tiny Worlds - Production

My second shoot is based inside the kiwi caves

Shoot 2

Behind the Scenes - Kiwi Caves

I created this scene using holographic card as the water/background, small rocks and tissue paper&t-shirts to create the cave silhouette. I used the led lights on the back of my mirror to give the scene a blue lighting effect.

Contact Sheets - Kiwi Caves

These ended up being some of my favourite photos from this project, I like how vibrant and shiny they are.

Shoot 3

Contact Sheet - Car Shoot

I had to leave this shoot till last even though it’s my first image in the story as I had to break my characters to get them to fit inside the car. This was my only outdoor shoot and the set up was simple it was just a miniature car on an outdoor surface, I took it from an angle so that the greenery would fill the background.

[cosmiclion]

A very cute jumping spider (family Salticidae), they’re very curious creatures! I recorded this with my iPhone and a cheap macro lens on December 2018.

[olliemackk]

Tiny Worlds, shoot 1

Possible final images:

I won’t be making a decision on my final 12 images until I have finished every shoot, however these are the three I like best from this first shoot. 

Behind the scenes: