Dolls House Effect

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Hey Guys!

I was hoping you could help.

I'm trying to create a collection of photos of a Dolls House but with my inside it.

Basically, I want to take pics of myself, reduce them in size and superimpose them into the Dolls House. But I'm concerned about the lighting issues. I.e., I want to create even, similar lighting when taking all shots so I don't out of place due to differences in exposure.

What's the best way to achieve this effect?

Picture me infront of a green screen, seperate myself from the background and reduce the size? Obviously doing this in the same room the Dolls House?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
 
hmmm.. sounds interesting. i can't really offer much on the even lighting side of things, but you might want to look at this site.

this is pellepiano's (member on here) look for the collection called 'The Giant Women' across the top menu. This might give you some inspiration or ideas for shots.. there's some stunning stuff on there. Good luck.
 
You'd need to control both the studio lighting and the lighting in the dolls house. In essence recreating the studio lights in scale.

I've never tried this type of thing myself, but if I did I might take the approach of taking the studio shots of yourself first using half-a-dozen different, but fairly simple, lighting arrangements. Keeping careful notes of the set-ups. Then try and recreate these in the dolls house using a model figure to confirm the lighting against the studio shots. You're already post-processing with layers, so it's not going to be much trouble if you're lighting set-up in the dolls house shot is visible in one layer, and you clone it out as you layer yourself in. If you follow what I mean?
 
Leftcurl, thanks for that site! The photography is great on it!

Alastair, yeh you're right. I'll use my trusty wooden artist doll for the light test in the Dolls House.

Any other tips on how you might approach this?
 
Just three I can think of..

You're probably not going to be able to replicate the colour temperature of the studio lights with whatever miniature lighting you use in the dolls house (probably LED I'd imagine), but if you use identical light sources (i.e. just one type of LED bulb) in the dolls house you should be able to correct the raw shots before bringing in the studio stuff.

Perspective is going to be a PITA if you're a rivet counter. If you shoot with your camera in the studio 4' off the ground you'll need to get the dolls house shots a scale 4' off the ground. I have no idea how the relative focal lengths will play out between the full-size and the scale settings.

The final tip is that Google Sketch-Up is your friend. You should be able to quickly mock-up your plans, and being able to rotate and move your viewpoint within the virtual model might give you some ideas.
 
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