Arcata wrote:Excellent series! Your diorama is awesome, your photography is excellent, and your poses are superb. Thanks for taking the time to make and post it. I agree with Diana, the last photo looks so real in one quick glance you could easily mistake it for an actual movie still. Come to think of it, the last photo in both posts is outstanding.
This is my first post here, so I hope I don't come across as a know it all, but did you consider having Daxter's empty holster be the one under his right armpit? He's got his Beretta in his left hand, and he's wearing a double gun rig, so the most natural way to draw from a shoulder holster would be cross-draw. Drawing from a reversed holster on the same side has certainly been done, it was named the "cavalry draw" because mounted soldiers carried their revolvers on the right so they could use their saber with their strong hand, but when everyone decided to use their guns instead of swords, they just started drawing from the same side even though the gun was butt forward in the holster. Wild Bill Hickok was famous for preferring the cavalry draw, but it really went out of style after him. If you did it for artistic license, so the second, holstered pistol could be seen easier in the photos, then don't mind me, I'll just go back to my corner.
And finally, I can't tell you how excited I was to see you using the SDH018 for your female in the last couple shots. I've searched high and low for heads that I like, and the SDH018 is my favorite. It's the only one I currently own, and when I saw it in person, I ordered the other two hairstyles/colors of the same head as the next two in my collection. Yours is the first photo I've seen of the head being used... like ever. Haha...on forums, youtube, Flickr, anywhere. Sorry for nerding out, but that was very fun to see.
-Doug
If you poke around, you will find countless other instances in threads by ThePhotogsBlog and davidd, both in General Talk and Photo Stories. Enjoy!
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