Sharon Wright Photography Giveaway!!!

Sera: Uhm, uh, hello... I mean, uh, Hi!

I have a super exciting giveaway to share with you today!

Perhaps you remember a few months back when I did an interview with the lovely

Sharon Wright?

If you don't remember,

please go check it out here:

http://majokkoshop.blogspot.com/2013/11/interview-doll-photography-with-sharon.html

She's an awesome, kick-butt, super nice photographer for dolls and toys!

(I'm sure she'd photograph other things too... but let's face it,

we dolls and toys are the most awesome thing ever, so I'm just mentioning us, haha!)

Anyhow, if you haven't heard, she did the photography for the

2014 DOLLS Calendar,

and it's AWESOME.

You can find her images here:

https://www.facebook.com/dollpics

and here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharonwright/

Here are a few pics you'll find in the calendar:

©SharonWrightPhotography

For this next pic, she even did a breakdown of how it was made:

©SharonWrightPhotography

©SharonWrightPhotography

Better than that, though,

she sent over 2 Calendars to be given away...

as well as two amazing 8X10 prints of her fabulous work!

Look! She signed the calendars (and the prints too!)

Which prints, you ask?

Why, these two!

(Actual prints don't have the watermark and text on them, but she did sign them, which is awesome)

©SharonWrightPhotography

©SharonWrightPhotography

HOW TO ENTER:

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New Year's Resolutions

Every year I try to make at least one resolution that

is actually something I can accomplish.

This year it is to take 1 photo a day.

No theme,

no medium (ie, it can be a phone photo for Instagram)

Just one photo a day.

So far so good... lol!

January 1st:

January 2nd:

This is GaMERCaT, btw, check him out, he's super cute:

http://thegamercat.com/

Now, I figure I will share these here... along with doll photos (which will hopefully result in my taking a doll photo-a-day as well :) )

Here are the doll photos I've taken so far this year:

(they will probably include some girls I haven't even introduced yet!)

Mio: Maybe, could we go shopping?

Mugi: We're both blondes!

And here's one final image... a little something from the Holiday Season:

Of course I also have other things I want to accomplish... 

finish telling my Wednesday story,

make more illustrations, 

make doll clothes, 

etc, etc, etc...

but the photo a day one is the only one with a true time deadline...

and the only one I'm calling a true Resolution... because I think

it's something I can actually get done.

:)

Happy New Year!

Tours, Tips & Tricks

Today I thought I'd share another little photography
tip & trick I found over at

This one is all about how to make your

ON CAMERA FLASH

not suck!

Otherwise known as, Very Important Information!

LOL!!

Click the following link to find out more

on how to dramatically improve your images

while still using your On-Camera flash.

GO HERE NOW!
(the above is a direct link to the post on On-Camera flash)

Now on to the "tour" part of this post.

I spent the better part of last night putting away
my goodies from Gencon (a post about that soon),
and setting up a new spot for my Dollfie Dream girls
to hang out, so I thought I'd share some pics of where some of
my dolls live while they're at home:

 Here's Pidge, Alna and Jun in their new spot atop the manga...
Pidge: Where'd all those little dolls go?
Alna: I don't know, but I like it! I mean... not that I mind the little guys...
but they can get kinda pushy sometimes.
Jun: Oooh, manga!

Here's the view zoomed out a little...
although I only just now noticed the one bookshelf
still has the lint roller, tissues and air freshener on it -_-

But yeah, the girls have a corner of the room all to themselves now,
I quite like it!
No more getting lost on a shelf with a million Pure Neemo!!

Speaking of Pure Neemo...
Well, ok, you can only see one in this picture.
That top shelf is *usually* filled with the PN girls,
but right now it's housing all of the
custom painted Monster High dolls I made,
and that AWESOME wand cabinet
Tony @ Miniature Treasures made.

Next to the bookshelf, you can see my wine rack cart XD
It's currently housing my boyfriend's collection of tequilas,
and the wines we brought back from vacation!

Bonus Shot of item on bookshelf:
Bear in a Bear Hat!

Lighting Tutorial from Jointed Love

Hey everyone!

I just read a great little lighting tutorial over at
Jointed Love.

Click the image below to go to the Jointed Love blog:

Or click the link below to go directly to the Lighting Tutorial:

Lighting Tutorial

It's not super technical...
but what it does REALLY well
is go over equiptment you should have
for a very basic, everyone-can-do-it,
lighting setup in your own home
that will give you much more
professional looking lighting.

Now... if you want to know more about how to
set up your lights in your studio for portrait photography,
this is a decent site:
http://www.professionalphotography101.com/portrait_lighting/lighting_names.html
that explains some of the different types of
portrait lighting with diagrams of how to set up
your lights in regard to your subject.