-Plastic Animals-

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About -Plastic Animals-

+Photos of plastic animals
+plastic animals acting like wild animals
+No live animals please, or, indeed, dead ones.
+No animals that aren't plastic, i.e stuffed toys.
+No plastic humans/real humans in photos.
+High quality photos

As this group has quite a few members now, it might be time to start suggesting that quality photographs are submitted.

*Light - Try thinking about lighting, generally electric light can effect images badly, as it is usually too low a light to register well, often colours are ruined by using electric light.
Daylight usually looks very good, try experimenting with morning or evening light, both have a different feel to them, but can have good effects.

* Angle - this makes the difference between a normal looking photo of a plastic animal and an interesting looking one, try photographing your plastic models from ground level, i.e get your camera as low as possible, as opposed to looking down on the model. This often makes the models look more realistic, and very large. Sometimes placing the model on a raised surface, a rock, a book, a table edge, can help with getting your camera low down, so you can rest the lens on the edge of the table or rock.

* environment - this is fun to play about with. Moss is great - it can look like scaled down grass, or weird fantasy-looking plants, and so looks great when combined with natural lighting and a low camera angle. Natural environments have a huge range of possibilities for making your model look interesting. On the other hand a human environment can look great too - textured stone landscapes, cracked concrete or even just landscapes of books and stationary.