Some friends of mine started knitting small toys, more known as amigurumi, which is a japanese thing. Please visit their blog Virkamera (in Swedish only, but the pictures speak for themselves) for more examples.
I helped them with some studio shots of the amigurumis when I had some time to spare. The result came out pretty nice, I think. Some are cute, others are creepy.
Amigurumi dog in sunset, sort of.
I think this is the amigurumi Corporate Zombie together with Nosferatu.
And here is the Amugurumi group shot, Nosferatu, Corporate Zombie, Little Knight, Lucia and some alien-looking gut/girl.
Photographing products in a studio setting is fun, but when trying to keep every little detail and highlight in the threads of yarn it gets a bit tricky. In some of the shots I let the highlights get blown out, but if given more time it would be relatively easy to make a composite shot (one with normal exposure combined with an underexposed for the highlights) to keep all the small details.
Here are some more product photos of the Amigurumis on Flickr from the same session if you are interested.
Or visit my portfolio for larger images (in Swedish only).
Use them if you like
If you want to use the Amigurumi-pictures from Flickr on your own blog, it is ok for me, if you link back to this page or my stuff on Flickr. These photos are marked Creative Commons, so use them according to the licence. Thanks.
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These look great! Do you have any tips on how you lit these so beautifully?