Shiranui Gen-An wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:12 pm
Well, that's the point actually... I really thought that I created something special that you haven't seen before. Although it might be very common for you and me, I think it's quite unusual for a doll to go to the toilet or brush her teeth. I finally managed to include different backgrounds, and I tried some challenging poses to make it look like she's standing without holding anywhere, and I even applied some special effects like the flying dress in the spinning-around-pose... then there is this "accidental" nudity... I wanted it to look natural.
Yeah, I see where you're coming from and,
now that you point it out, that there's clever stuff in the photography
The problem isn't so much about being
arty, but that the forum is flooded with content and keeping up with it takes time that most people don't have; so most folks
skim the forum and only stop to read properly if there's something in a post that stands out; 'girl gets up in the morning' is the same as 'girl using an ATM' or 'girl doing her tax returns'; people never look closely enough to
see the clever stuff; there needs to be something
out of the ordinary to grab people's attention and make them look closer, in any shoot not intended as a documentary. The way to handle everyday stuff, at least in my experience, is to add some humour in it, especially the first few pics;
For example, she tries to get out of bed too sleepy to think, slides onto the floor looking really silly and her POV includes a cat grinning at her with that 'Dumb human, you fail getting up forever!' look that cats are so good at, possibly followed by her looking angry at the cat and the cat running away out of a door. That sort of thing. There's a reason I keep Matt the Cat around
.
A catchy title helps, too, so instead of "PÜPPI'S MORNING ROUTINE", maybe something like "Even rock star girls have to get up in the morning!" Yeah, it's cheesy, but you do sometimes need to make a drama out of a crisis
The other thing that will help encourage people who are skimming the forum (i.e., most of them) to
not say "OMG, a huge wall of pixels!" is to not break the page layout ... keep each photo (or at least its preview or thumbnail version) easily visible
in one screenful; these days, I use an image host and set the image on the page up to display as a smaller version, and that smaller version links to the full-size one. If you're only posting on the forum and don't need an external image host, TDF forum has some built-in
bbcode tags for this;
img600,
imgthm, and so on; on desktop, you can hover the mouse over their buttons, in the "post a reply" form, to see what each one does. Hope this helps.
