What is Toy Photography?

Honestly some people are taking too literal and quite narrow to understand the meaning of the word. But way back last year I too took the meaning literally. Just taking photos of a certain toy or action figure whatever shot I want.

It turns out when I met a certain Mach "Diesel Boy" Manuel, that meaning took a deep realization what is really Toy Photography. What it meant about the word is taking the toys too on-location shoots or certain interesting background "in the real world".

So on that day I took the opportunity to try it outside the confines of my home, and without cheating all the image where not rendered by any photo shop editing software.

Every weekend we tried to take the shots going to on-location places with a good spot. We took the night shots to the next level. "No flashes" he says use natural lighting and so we did. The other part of it using only a point & shoot camera like my trusty Canon Powershot A430.

Some people gets there pride messed up that photos made by a point & shoot camera is not crisp as clear as how a Canon EOS D400 can do. Seriously the reason why we use a point & shoot camera is the effect it gives on the image.

It looked realistic as the grain effect makes the subject(the action figure) look realistic. But it all depends on material or environment too.

So mostly if people share there shot considered as toy photography but only took in doors with a plain dark background, THAT IS NOT TOY PHOTOGRAPHY even if the background is fake. That's what you call it cheating even building a diorama background out of it.

You call it studio photography.

A real Toy Photography is a daring task. Its taken in a real place and using real background day or night.

People might looked at you doing it, but once you got the right shot they will know why it was... Toy Photography.