Yarn!chester fans-- help/advice sought!
So, BuddyTV is running an art contest (details here, and you talented peoples should so totally enter, too.) I would like to enter a photograph (or 3-- the max number entries per person is 3) of the Yarn!chesters.
Only, I don't know which one(s) and what photo/how photographed.
I only have 'til Wednesday (the 14th) to enter, so I can't whip up a new Yarn!chester between now and then. (I mean, I probably *could* make a basic yarn!chester in that amount of time, but I also have to do comps reading and 221 midterm grading, and Blackfriars Conference readings, so... no.)
This means I have the following Yarn!chesters with which to work: Sam, Dean, John, Mary, Bobby, Castiel, Chuck, Henricksen, Ash, YED (AHBL version), Meg (season 1)
Also, Ellen is about 10 minutes from finished (she just needs eyes). And Jo is a few hours from finished. (She needs an arm sewn on, hair (which is the time consuming part) and eyes.)
My appropriately sized props and sets are limited-- one laptop, one sawed off shotgun, a bunch of food, a ouija board, 2 large books, a large yellow snake and small yorkshire terrier (ala "Yellow Fever") and a few other very random Barbie accessories; two very large wooden chairs (which were meant to hold pins and bobbins, but whatevs!), and some Barbie furniture, most notably some chairs, a bed and some shelves.
As a reminder, you can see almost all of the previous Yarn!chesters and their photos at their Flickr Set. Also, by clicking the Yarn!chester Tag on my LJ, you'll see all the previous Yarn!chester Scene Challenges, and such. (The newer scene challenges are not on the Flickr page.)
I have a digital camera and am ready to roll. What I do not have is anyone nearby who is insane like me who can help me. So this is more or less a one-woman (and 11-15 crocheted people) operation. Also, I don't have a nice foresty area to go into as a background, as I live in the desert.
My first thought is simply a group shot of some sort, which shows off the dolls themselves as art, rather than trying to make the photograph the art (if that makes sense?) But even so, it should be a good picture, and any advice would be welcome. (Mind you, I finally figured out how to use the white balance on my camera, so that should be an improvement in general... heh. But I'm talking more like composition, since there are so many dolls it's hard to see details AND get them all in, and their charm is, in many case, I think, in their details.)
My second thought is something somehow amusing -- the yarn!chesters getting into some sort of trouble. It could have a fun caption-- only I suck at fun captions.
And my third idea is a scene recreation (a new one) but that would only have, at most, 5 people in it.
If you're entering the contest and don't want to help me, I totally understand. Winning would be nice (okay, winning would be *awesome*, but completely unexpected) but mostly I want to enter because then more people will get a chance to see the Yarn!chesters, and that would make mean attention whore happy. :)
(Actually, the amount of wanting people to see the Yarn!chesters that I feel weirds me out sometimes. But I feel like their my wee contribution to fandom, I guess. And they take a fair amount of work, so there's that, too. It's less about people thinking well of *me* and more about people getting a kick out of *them*. If, they're, y'know, kick-worthy.)
[I'm not making much sense. Blame the MIND NUMBING THREE HOUR SEMINAR I was just in. So. Tired.]
Only, I don't know which one(s) and what photo/how photographed.
I only have 'til Wednesday (the 14th) to enter, so I can't whip up a new Yarn!chester between now and then. (I mean, I probably *could* make a basic yarn!chester in that amount of time, but I also have to do comps reading and 221 midterm grading, and Blackfriars Conference readings, so... no.)
This means I have the following Yarn!chesters with which to work: Sam, Dean, John, Mary, Bobby, Castiel, Chuck, Henricksen, Ash, YED (AHBL version), Meg (season 1)
Also, Ellen is about 10 minutes from finished (she just needs eyes). And Jo is a few hours from finished. (She needs an arm sewn on, hair (which is the time consuming part) and eyes.)
My appropriately sized props and sets are limited-- one laptop, one sawed off shotgun, a bunch of food, a ouija board, 2 large books, a large yellow snake and small yorkshire terrier (ala "Yellow Fever") and a few other very random Barbie accessories; two very large wooden chairs (which were meant to hold pins and bobbins, but whatevs!), and some Barbie furniture, most notably some chairs, a bed and some shelves.
As a reminder, you can see almost all of the previous Yarn!chesters and their photos at their Flickr Set. Also, by clicking the Yarn!chester Tag on my LJ, you'll see all the previous Yarn!chester Scene Challenges, and such. (The newer scene challenges are not on the Flickr page.)
I have a digital camera and am ready to roll. What I do not have is anyone nearby who is insane like me who can help me. So this is more or less a one-woman (and 11-15 crocheted people) operation. Also, I don't have a nice foresty area to go into as a background, as I live in the desert.
My first thought is simply a group shot of some sort, which shows off the dolls themselves as art, rather than trying to make the photograph the art (if that makes sense?) But even so, it should be a good picture, and any advice would be welcome. (Mind you, I finally figured out how to use the white balance on my camera, so that should be an improvement in general... heh. But I'm talking more like composition, since there are so many dolls it's hard to see details AND get them all in, and their charm is, in many case, I think, in their details.)
My second thought is something somehow amusing -- the yarn!chesters getting into some sort of trouble. It could have a fun caption-- only I suck at fun captions.
And my third idea is a scene recreation (a new one) but that would only have, at most, 5 people in it.
If you're entering the contest and don't want to help me, I totally understand. Winning would be nice (okay, winning would be *awesome*, but completely unexpected) but mostly I want to enter because then more people will get a chance to see the Yarn!chesters, and that would make mean attention whore happy. :)
(Actually, the amount of wanting people to see the Yarn!chesters that I feel weirds me out sometimes. But I feel like their my wee contribution to fandom, I guess. And they take a fair amount of work, so there's that, too. It's less about people thinking well of *me* and more about people getting a kick out of *them*. If, they're, y'know, kick-worthy.)
[I'm not making much sense. Blame the MIND NUMBING THREE HOUR SEMINAR I was just in. So. Tired.]