Professional family photos with your dolls?...

Maybe not a family photo, but I could see getting professional photos of/with dolls. I can think of a few setups that could work out - but not the sort of thing like the examples you give, maybe a bit more arty.

Of course, I HATE myself in photos and wouldn't get them taken myself...

 

I don't see why it would be a problem. The entire purpose of photography is to represent the subject in the best way possible. What better to represent you as a person than to include something you love?

 

Oh YES I would do it because it would be HIGH-larious (ala Sears portrait, not fancy professional art photos)! And weird and silly and tacky. Fun fun!

 

I don't think posing with your dolls is going to look very dignified, except if everyone is on the joke or if you're referencing the style of old family portraiture in which children are holding their favourite pets or toys (see here, here or here for a few examples. Then again, they're children).

However, I have to admit I'm suddenly overcome with the urge to do a photoshoot of my dolls in the Victorian style next time I put them in something vaguely resembling the era (er, as in the doll and the scale background done up in the Victorian style, not me steampunked up and posing with my dolls. Well, maybe the doll might be holding a tiny doll for the lulz)

 

If I could get my local meet up group to do it with me just for pure hilarity, I would totally do it.
Especially if it could be with santa or the easter bunny XD

 

I think I would actually do it, if only for the look on the faces of the photographers. XD (And, like Cedarheart said, nothing fancy, just Sears or Walmart.)

Also, it would be cute. I've sent stories and artwork into magazines before where you need to include a photo of yourself, and it would be amusing to have one of Kii and me. I could just imagine someone flipping through the pages, and then be like, "Wait, is that girl holding a DOLL?" It would be funny.

 

That would be so great!

 

Oh yeah , I defunetly would!I allways take pictures of me and my dolly crew, and have one taken profesionally , in a studio or something would be frikin awsuum! I would hang it on the wall :P.

 

Not a chance. If, years on down the road, I had a kid and he/she wanted to hold a doll while getting our picture taken? Sure, go for it. But a professional family portrait like that with an adult holding their dolls is just... much too weird for me.

But if it was more of a candid shot of some one sitting at their painting table with dolls and heads and art stuff strewn about? Yes, absolutely I would do that. But that's not really a "family portrait" type thing, so much as a picture of an individual person. Still, I'd rather have that on the wall through the generations because then it shows something about them, rather than forced smiles and everyone dressed up in clothes that will look horrible in ten years.

I DO kinda really love the idea of an intentionally tacky crazy pants family picture just for the lulz, like others have said. I don't have the guts for it, but I would so totally help orchestrate the event.

 

I think this sums it up for me. I do love my dolls, but they too have a time and a place...

 

I think it would depend on the whole situation. for senior portraits i think its fine to pose with one's hobby and interest.
as a grown-up i wouldn't feel fine by having one of my dolls in my lap in a family portrait... but for my two little girls i would feel fine if they each had a doll or a teddy.. until a certain age...

- karina

 

Whoa... this thread remains me of the professionell photos wich were taken at my civic initiation ceremony (sorry couldn't find a good translation for it...).
At this time I was dressed like a girl, had my hair done professionally sat in a good setting and held my selfmade, pink, bandaged, eyepatched, bloody plush-rabbit in my arms.
When I think about it four years later.... it's odd...... and it was a picture my family members, who I don't know personally got...

So having a BJD on it (and I defently would know which one I would take) woudn't be so odd.... 'cause I AM odd and weird xDDD (In the eyes of my family)
So why not?^^

 

Honestly it might be a little strange XD but it depends on the person.

 

No. Heck no. While I love owner/doll pictures, I could never see myself bringing my dolls into a portrait studio. Taking photos with my dolls for anything but the sake of art or humor seems to toe the line on weird for me. My dolls are tools for art, much like my paints, fabrics, camera, etc. I love them dearly, but having them in my family photos would push me waaaay deeper into "creepy doll lady" territory than I've wanted to go.

 

I'm not speaking against anyone who would do that seriously, but if I did get a family portrait w/ my dolls it would be a totally joke. I'd get dressed up in some goofy outfit and do that super wide stare-into-nothing expression like on the cover of "The 40-year old Virgin" and ham it up. It would be fun! OMG I wanna do that now! It would be HILARIOUS!

 

Please post pictures if you do it!

 

I would totally do it for the fact that it IS really weird...and I would use them for christmas cards!
I am always doing something weird for my family for the holidays - this is a GREAT idea!

 

Taking a photo of my resin dolls, or any other dolls, as a portrait and hang them on the wall ? O_O
NO .. ! I don't look at them as people, family, friends, pets or children and they sure don't belong on the wall with my family photos ! I mean, I am not THAT attached to them. So to some level, they are object and if family wanted to see them after I die, they will be in the cabinet I bought for them, unless they sold them all (or I did). I can never think of something more creepy sounding than this to me. I can understand all those photos of girls *little girls under 12 yrs* holding their dolls, but to me, these bjd are art pieces and I use them to express my artistic side, not to live with them and join their fantasy world, or make it part of my world.

 

me too............................

 

Oh noes! hahaha I have two boy dogs so I totally hear you. I think I want them laying down on our lap or cuddled in a blanket to avoid that situation.