5 Background Ideas For Toy Photography

When it comes to toy photography, backgrounds can be difficult to use. Do you have to buy a diorama? Can you even make a diorama? I came up with a few ideas that you can use for your next action figure photoshoot!
Let me know what else you might use as a background for your toy photos and what you think of these ideas. I really hope they can help inspire you to take more photos.
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00:00 Introduction
00:44 Background Idea 1: Buy a Diorama
02:01 Background Idea 2: Make a Diorama
03:17 Background Idea 3: Use Random Objects
04:40 Background Idea 4: Use Nothing
06:19 Background Idea 5: Go Outside
07:17 Background Idea 6: Digital Background

[@Clonewar501st]

Great tips thanks for the kind words about my image and setup 👍🏼 👍🏼👍🏼(clonewar501st)

[@junkioncraftsandbuilds]

I'll definitely check out your IG thanks to Matt

[@amusingking]

Yo! Nice! It’s a really great setup🔥

[@amusingking]

Awesome!

[@Clonewar501st]

​@@junkioncraftsandbuildsthanks so much🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@disraelidemon]

Big sheets of thin card (plain white or coloured) can make great seamless backdrops for toys. Used metal baking trays have a great mottled texture for backgrounds. Celeriac root makes amazing-looking weird alien plants. Mirrors or mirror tiles part- covered with sand or flour look like swamp environments. Long twists of tissue paper twirled between the fingers during a long exposure look like columns of smoke. Miniature fairy lights dragged through a scene during a long exposure look like bolts of electricity.

[@amusingking]

Awesome suggestions! Definitely have used a few but some I need to try 👍🏼

[@techcdrive1702]

Thank you. this is awesome, definitely value content and something i wanted to learn more and more and do more and more. awesome stuff man

[@amusingking]

You’re welcome! So glad to hear it helped. Thanks for watching.

[@alicekasey8516]

Very inspiring and informative! Love these tips...thanks for sharing!

[@amusingking]

Awesome! So glad to hear you enjoy it. Thank you!

[@r2witco]

Personally I’m not a fan of the hand held, figure photography. I really enjoyed the rest of your tips!

[@amusingking]

Yeah, I can relate. It’s only recently that I kind of started liking it and more so for video. But I can see how people like it and it’s growing on me. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

[@paulbell9957]

Great tips mate, always inspiring 👍👍

[@amusingking]

I appreciate it Paul! Thank you

[@techcdrive1702]

i am wondering how all these background will look in few seconds stop motion video, that would be cool, something like creating just "signature moves" of all the characters.

[@amusingking]

That would be cool! Most of them should work for sure for stop motion. That’s something I’ve been wanting to do, but I just need time haha

[@siniestro0239]

Just the video I've been looking for, excellent ideas my friend.

[@amusingking]

That’s awesome! Glad it helps🔥

[@MarcoLucifora]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos !! very inspiring

[@amusingking]

Ayy thank you! Much appreciated

[@ryantorney5581]

Love this vid. Dioramas are so much fun to make! But so time consuming to do them well! I love your perspective on this subject!🎉

[@amusingking]

Dude they are time consuming for sure! lol but it’s hard to stop😂 Thanks so much!

[@one_lighttoy]

Another well thought out video,my friend. Definitely will help me out. Thank u so much😊

[@amusingking]

Yo! Thank you🙏🏼 happy to hear it helps!

[@brian-lexiluproductions]

This is one thing I struggle the most with. I have 2 dios I got from extreme sets and I pretty much wore them out already with different ideas I have the same building you have, and I have set it up so many different ways. It does get discouraging when you're wanting to set up a scene and you don't have the right background to tell the story. You had some good ideas though. I'll have to try just using a black backdrop, it sucks though if you don't have the props to fill the scene. Another good video idea brother keep up the good work!

[@amusingking]

That's cool you have some Extreme Sets, but yeah, that's another thing is using them too much haha. And yeah, props can be another struggle to figure out as well. Hope you can think of some creative ideas to experiment with!

[@cburrion]

Good tips man. I made a few dios and i painted cup holders to make rocks effect. Poster board are great too

[@amusingking]

Nice! That’s awesome. And thanks!

[@junkioncraftsandbuilds]

Great video showing all the variety photographers could use for practice and shoots.

[@amusingking]

Thank you! Yes, definitely was going for a variety.

[@topico456]

Great advice! That’s very helpful. Thankyou.

[@amusingking]

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful 🙌🏼

[@techcdrive1702]

when can we are having the lighting Tips ??? lighting, props, pose series please, without lighting we will not be having the decent results.

[@amusingking]

I do have a lot of other tutorials that deal with lighting 👍🏼

[@techcdrive1702]

Short n sweet n Swift,

[@amusingking]

That’s the goal!

[@DaveBotDesign]

Great vid and tips. Your tutorials have been very helpful in helping me think a bit more abstract about things to use for the bgs and dios.

[@amusingking]

Thanks!! And that’s awesome, thinking a bit more abstract is definitely something important for toy photography.

[@Lordred1069]

Nice 👍🏾 and excellent ideas! But alert everyone that once you make your diorama you need to make a space to storage all the things you look and see that you can use it later for something 😂😂

[@amusingking]

lol it’s something that must be discovered on their own 😂 but yeah, I guess that’s a negative with making your own. I’m trying to be more efficient about that

[@jakiicooper3785Jokergoblin]

Hey. Were. You get. That. Figure. And. How. Much. I. Need. A. Storm trooper. In my collection

[@Yadi_7567]

😎👍🔥

[@amusingking]

🙏🏼🔥🙏🏼

[@vesuviuscat2319]

go outside for the background

[@amusingking]

Yeah, that was one of the ways 👍🏼