Jan 05: The making of 'Strange Trees' by bulldog

Jan 05: The making of 'Strange Trees'

^ That just about says it.

The actual shot can be seen here: http://365project.org/bulldog/365/2013-01-05
Oh wow - I thoulght you had plonked him outside int he grass. I can see today's shot in the making to the right. Look at you, you've got all the kit! Brilliant
January 6th, 2013  
The green stuff is actually moss and I do appear to have more and more 'bits'.
January 6th, 2013  
Did you think of going into films anytime? Maybe that's what they used in The Hobbit - moss for trees??!!
January 6th, 2013  
Ha ha ha, maybe....
@quietpurplehaze
January 6th, 2013  
Love the littles campers watching you work.
January 6th, 2013  
It was a long night Leonie
@onie
January 6th, 2013  
Great to see how you did it. Looking forward to your 'open fire' shot
January 6th, 2013  
Excellent - a bit like David Attenborough.
January 6th, 2013  
Please don't let Greenbot do anything dangerous...
January 6th, 2013  
More like David Bellamy, 'Wumagin Awound in the Undergwoath'
@digitalhermit
January 6th, 2013  
@gphelps5 There's an image to conjure with.
January 6th, 2013  
Jo
Are the guys in the tent the film crew? Like the shadows casting on the wall.
January 6th, 2013  
:D i love making ofยดs! :D
January 6th, 2013  
@gphelps5 wumagin awound.....you crack me up.............love it!! Off to see if I can find anyone in the fog on the beach having a bbq....you don't ask for much!!!
January 6th, 2013  
Have fun!
@fannyb
January 6th, 2013  
you are great love it
January 6th, 2013  
Very cool nice setup.
January 6th, 2013  
Great setup - very inventive:)
January 6th, 2013  
Lyn
such fun seeing all the trouble you go to!!
January 6th, 2013  
Cool. Is this inside a light box? Great set up.
January 6th, 2013  
Very cool.
January 6th, 2013  
Thank you all for your comments. They may well be the film crew Jo and unfortunately O don't Habe a light box Henri, so I improvised with a bent price of A40 paper.

@joluise @agentzuckerguss @triciaodonnell @david68 @michelle58 @lyno @henrir @mittens
January 6th, 2013  
@gphelps5 You did good with your improvision.
January 6th, 2013  
Oh fantastic, great set up
January 6th, 2013  
What fun you have Bulldog, I love your world of tiny people.
January 6th, 2013  
Great setup I bet you spend a lot of time planning your creative scenes :)
January 6th, 2013  
Great to see how you set this up :)
January 7th, 2013  
Cool shot. I thought you had placed the figures outside in a bunch of moss. I was far from the mark. You really set up these shots well.
January 7th, 2013  
Cool....I've never seen the USB microscope before! Like your campers off to the side.
January 7th, 2013  
Thank you all for your comments these scenes are very much 'spur of the moment' and not a lot of forward planning does into them. Here is the process that created this:
- I purchased the little-camping people back in early December, at the same time as I got the old man pulling a sledge and Santa,
- Mrs B brought me a USB Microscope Camera for Christmas and I asked her what I could look at for the word 'Trees'.
- She said that if you look at moss, the structure can look like little trees and proceeded to pull some out of the flower pot.
- I looked at this in 'very close' mode (like the carnation petal in my Additions album on the 2nd Jan) but felt it was lacking something.
- In came Little Ray Mears and job done.
- It was after the shot that I started playing with the other little campers (until tea-time)

@henrir @simster @tishpics @aurorajane @cally @daisy @lynnb
January 7th, 2013  
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