Hi folks, thanks again for the kind words.
Stacy, I do hope Noco arrives soon. You must have the patience of a saint. I’d be tearing my hair out by now (what little I have left). I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you (and Claire’s).
Thanks Peter_Girth. Yes, I think Rentell might have missed some of the pictures on the end. Or perhaps he is being kind to spare Clare’s blushes. I’ve quite often thought I’d reached the end of the set of pictures in CoverDoll, only to realise there are more if I keep clicking the arrow on the end of the picture strip. As a rule, there are at least 20 pictures in a CoverDoll shoot.
PBS, thanks for the suggestion. However, having a naked woman in my back garden at 1:00am is, I fear, too surreal, even for a mad scientist. I hope it won’t be long before Lily graces the cover of CoverDoll.
Viking, I certainly hope your suggestion is right. As for getting Claire Marie to stand, this picture might help to explain my method. It was taken for another garden shoot I did last year but the method is exactly the same:-
http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/in ... ?cat=10013
I use a boxing stand to support her and just crop it out of the picture to make it look as if she’s standing by herself. One point to note is that all the Face X dolls are supplied with an eye-bolt screwed into the back of their neck, which is used to hang then when being stored. I use this neck bolt to suspend her for the pictures. I’m not sure if Mia is sufficiently new to have this feature.
In addition, suspending directly from the neck-bolt makes the doll tilt forward, giving an unrealistic pose. I’ve fixed this by making a bracket to attach to the neck-bolt, which puts the lift over her centre of gravity.
Midnight has used a similar bracket with his girls, to great effect.
Regards,
Dave.