5 Background Ideas For Toy Photography

When it comes to toy photography, backgrounds can be difficult to use. Do you have to buy a diorama? Can you even make a diorama? I came up with a few ideas that you can use for your next action figure photoshoot!
Let me know what else you might use as a background for your toy photos and what you think of these ideas. I really hope they can help inspire you to take more photos.
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00:00 Introduction
00:44 Background Idea 1: Buy a Diorama
02:01 Background Idea 2: Make a Diorama
03:17 Background Idea 3: Use Random Objects
04:40 Background Idea 4: Use Nothing
06:19 Background Idea 5: Go Outside
07:17 Background Idea 6: Digital Background

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  • @Clonewar501st
    @Clonewar501st7 ай бұрын

    Great tips thanks for the kind words about my image and setup 👍🏼 👍🏼👍🏼(clonewar501st)

  • @junkioncraftsandbuilds

    @junkioncraftsandbuilds

    7 ай бұрын

    I'll definitely check out your IG thanks to Matt

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Yo! Nice! It’s a really great setup🔥

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @Clonewar501st

    @Clonewar501st

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@junkioncraftsandbuildsthanks so much🙌🏼🙌🏼

  • @disraelidemon
    @disraelidemon2 ай бұрын

    Big sheets of thin card (plain white or coloured) can make great seamless backdrops for toys. Used metal baking trays have a great mottled texture for backgrounds. Celeriac root makes amazing-looking weird alien plants. Mirrors or mirror tiles part- covered with sand or flour look like swamp environments. Long twists of tissue paper twirled between the fingers during a long exposure look like columns of smoke. Miniature fairy lights dragged through a scene during a long exposure look like bolts of electricity.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    2 ай бұрын

    Awesome suggestions! Definitely have used a few but some I need to try 👍🏼

  • @alicekasey8516
    @alicekasey85162 ай бұрын

    Very inspiring and informative! Love these tips...thanks for sharing!

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    2 ай бұрын

    Awesome! So glad to hear you enjoy it. Thank you!

  • @techcdrive1702
    @techcdrive17027 ай бұрын

    Thank you. this is awesome, definitely value content and something i wanted to learn more and more and do more and more. awesome stuff man

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    You’re welcome! So glad to hear it helped. Thanks for watching.

  • @r2witco
    @r2witco7 ай бұрын

    Personally I’m not a fan of the hand held, figure photography. I really enjoyed the rest of your tips!

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I can relate. It’s only recently that I kind of started liking it and more so for video. But I can see how people like it and it’s growing on me. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

  • @paulbell9957
    @paulbell99577 ай бұрын

    Great tips mate, always inspiring 👍👍

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    I appreciate it Paul! Thank you

  • @techcdrive1702
    @techcdrive17027 ай бұрын

    i am wondering how all these background will look in few seconds stop motion video, that would be cool, something like creating just "signature moves" of all the characters.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    That would be cool! Most of them should work for sure for stop motion. That’s something I’ve been wanting to do, but I just need time haha

  • @siniestro0239
    @siniestro02393 ай бұрын

    Just the video I've been looking for, excellent ideas my friend.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    3 ай бұрын

    That’s awesome! Glad it helps🔥

  • @MarcoLucifora
    @MarcoLucifora7 ай бұрын

    Always a pleasure to watch your videos !! very inspiring

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Ayy thank you! Much appreciated

  • @ryantorney5581
    @ryantorney55815 ай бұрын

    Love this vid. Dioramas are so much fun to make! But so time consuming to do them well! I love your perspective on this subject!🎉

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    5 ай бұрын

    Dude they are time consuming for sure! lol but it’s hard to stop😂 Thanks so much!

  • @one_lighttoy
    @one_lighttoy7 ай бұрын

    Another well thought out video,my friend. Definitely will help me out. Thank u so much😊

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Yo! Thank you🙏🏼 happy to hear it helps!

  • @brian-lexiluproductions
    @brian-lexiluproductions7 ай бұрын

    This is one thing I struggle the most with. I have 2 dios I got from extreme sets and I pretty much wore them out already with different ideas I have the same building you have, and I have set it up so many different ways. It does get discouraging when you're wanting to set up a scene and you don't have the right background to tell the story. You had some good ideas though. I'll have to try just using a black backdrop, it sucks though if you don't have the props to fill the scene. Another good video idea brother keep up the good work!

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    That's cool you have some Extreme Sets, but yeah, that's another thing is using them too much haha. And yeah, props can be another struggle to figure out as well. Hope you can think of some creative ideas to experiment with!

  • @cburrion
    @cburrion7 ай бұрын

    Good tips man. I made a few dios and i painted cup holders to make rocks effect. Poster board are great too

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Nice! That’s awesome. And thanks!

  • @junkioncraftsandbuilds
    @junkioncraftsandbuilds7 ай бұрын

    Great video showing all the variety photographers could use for practice and shoots.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Yes, definitely was going for a variety.

  • @topico456
    @topico4564 ай бұрын

    Great advice! That’s very helpful. Thankyou.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    4 ай бұрын

    Awesome! Glad you found it helpful 🙌🏼

  • @techcdrive1702
    @techcdrive17027 ай бұрын

    when can we are having the lighting Tips ??? lighting, props, pose series please, without lighting we will not be having the decent results.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    I do have a lot of other tutorials that deal with lighting 👍🏼

  • @techcdrive1702
    @techcdrive17027 ай бұрын

    Short n sweet n Swift,

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    That’s the goal!

  • @DaveBotDesign
    @DaveBotDesign7 ай бұрын

    Great vid and tips. Your tutorials have been very helpful in helping me think a bit more abstract about things to use for the bgs and dios.

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks!! And that’s awesome, thinking a bit more abstract is definitely something important for toy photography.

  • @Lordred1069
    @Lordred10697 ай бұрын

    Nice 👍🏾 and excellent ideas! But alert everyone that once you make your diorama you need to make a space to storage all the things you look and see that you can use it later for something 😂😂

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    lol it’s something that must be discovered on their own 😂 but yeah, I guess that’s a negative with making your own. I’m trying to be more efficient about that

  • @jakiicooper3785Jokergoblin
    @jakiicooper3785Jokergoblin6 сағат бұрын

    Hey. Were. You get. That. Figure. And. How. Much. I. Need. A. Storm trooper. In my collection

  • @Yadi_7567
    @Yadi_75677 ай бұрын

    😎👍🔥

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    7 ай бұрын

    🙏🏼🔥🙏🏼

  • @vesuviuscat2319
    @vesuviuscat23196 ай бұрын

    go outside for the background

  • @amusingking

    @amusingking

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah, that was one of the ways 👍🏼