Happy Halloween!

I’m always too slow for seasonal event posts, this time though, I managed to prepare everything on time, changing eyes, making a dress and also taking the pictures. I never was a Halloween person, I wear no costume or collect sweets in the neighbourhood, do you?

Nevertheless I thought a Halloween related doll photoshoot would be fun, my doll Chiyoda likes everything that sounds like fun and dressed as seductive Vampire, it’s a good time to try these intimidating demon eyes I had in my storage. For general use they are too reflective, but it works in these low light pictures.

For the dress I was using the sewing machine again and pimped a simple black corsage that I already had. After some cutting and added lace, it looks more interesting now.

Often I take full frontal pictures of my dolls with the face pointing at the cameras direction, recently I noticed that a different angle is also quite appealing and tried to incooperate it in this shooting

“should I bite you?”

Actually the shooting turned out more seductive instead of spooky, but I like the pictures.

“Todays meal are innocent school girls”

Chiyoda took her vampire costume a bit too seriously, it’s method acting :p
Don’t worry,  I could save Rio from getting eaten

Hmmpf! Hmmpf! Hmmpf!

Have a nice Halloween

A few months ago I had a Super Sonico calendar page that I really liked, in fact I liked it so much that I was inspired to turn it into a Dollfie Dream head, not by myself of course.

So I asked the faceup artist Clockwork Angel, since I previously asked her for two other commissions and always was very happy with the results, I wanted her service once again.

I decided for an DDH-03 head in semi white as base, it’s not the most popular face mold,
but I thought it was perfect for my idea. The style was mainly based on the calendar page,
I also had some extra demands. I’ve send her the head, eyes and eyelashes to work on.

I patiently waited for her “I’m done” message, it’s always exciting to see the final result.

My intention was not to make a 100 % Sonico adaption, I wanted a slightly related design though. I also asked for adding a beauty mark, because I really like such things.

The head turned out marvelous and I’m very happy about it. The makeup shows lovely prominent blush and the pretty beauty mark I wanted, another part I especially like is the sweet mouth with the shiny lips. Added eyelashes are always nice. Clockwork Angel also modified the eye holes of the DDH-03 and the smaller, sanded down nose makes the face even cuter. All together the head turned out beautiful with amazing details.

I like that the face is cute and has a soft look, but also shows seductive characteristics.

Before I considered to get this head commission started, I sewed a Yukata dress, loosely following the calendar page pattern with some aid it turned out surprisingly nice.

The new head isn’t actually planned as a new doll, for starters at least it’s just ought to be an optional head. The name for now is Rio MK II

For the pictures I borrowed the DDdy body of my Chiyoda doll. The girl on the calendar is quite buxom and has an impressive bosom, so I was also borrowing the pretty Peach Pai bust
(ＤＤｄｙ版ぴ～ち☆パイぷらす仕様) The shooting turned out a bit sexy once again, but I tried to keep it subtle, it’s up to you if this worked to some degree or not.

Before I could take the long planned pictures, I had to wait for a paper umbrella from Taobao to arrive. In the meantime I also exchanged the doll bodies inner plastic frame with a sturdier metal frame, getting this part turned out quite expensive, but the thing is a real improvement.

Hi folks, recently it was anniversary of my blog, indeed another year passed. The idea of Wieselhead.de was born 2010 and it went online on May 15th. I really run this since six years. In the last 12 months I’ve reviewed 16 figures, apparently I like my variety of swimsuit figures.

I simply write reviews about my recently purchased figures, wieselhead.de is my baby and taking pictures, writing text, in the end adding another review fills me with joy and also pride.

What I really noticed this year is that I managed writing and structuring reviews much faster.

Staying active and dedicate your freetime to something for such a long period is a positive thing, still with more and more figure blogs shutting down activity, I start to feel lonely, I can count the number of remaining and active blogs with two hands, it was so lively back then.

My activity decreased a little since some time as well. I simply ordered less figures compared to previous years. Partially of lacking interesting material, insanely high prices also play a big role. An additional reason is that my interest shifted more in the doll territory.

Yeah the dolls, a few people are upset about Dollfie Dream and the likes. but I really began to like this hobby a lot. In the first place I started with fashion dolls for photography reasons. I’m still a rookie at dollphotography, it’s really difficult to get everything right. But that also makes it very interesting because it’s a real challenge where I can slowly learn to improve. Also just taking care of pretty fashion dollls and spoiling them with new stuff is surprisingly fun as well.

Taking care of my now 3 Dolls , Lady Mirai (SmartDoll), Rio (DDS) and Chiyoda (DDdy) distracts my usual worries about the blogsphere. I’m feeling less bitter about certain things now.

The stats of Wieselhead.de stayed as they always were, which is actually hilarious. I really suck at advertising my content, it always made me feel strangely uncomfortable. Which is not beneficial for a ambitious hobby photographer in times of omnipresent social media. I will never win a popularity award, but actually I feel confident in my figure photography.

I still appreciate bishoujo figures and figure photography a lot in general and still have as much fun with the actual process as when I started. Figures became surprisingly popular more as when I started the blog. These days many people worldwide take figure pictures, less for the purpose to put them into reviews, the obvious trend is a more artistic approach on figure photography, focusing on creating the one or a handful of nice and elaborate shots.

I always had some doubts about this certain step, but this year I started a facebook page for my blog, I quickly noticed that I, if at all should have done it much earlier, now it’s too late and apparently won’t result in a bigger audience. I’m also a little clueless about what to post XD.

Aside from blogging, I put my focus on flickr, it’s a very nice platform for figure and fashion doll photography. I also joined Instagram, it’s a fun place to look for and show pictures in a slightly different way. Although I stopped uploading pictures on mfc, it always gave me more grieve than anything else and just brings out the worst emotions in me ૮( ᵒ̌▱๋ᵒ̌ )ა.

Anyway I genuinely enjoy this photography thing. After all this time, I can’t think of a better hobby, oh well maybe gardening comes as 2nd in my case. I will continue with Wieselhead.de in the future, maybe I will invest in a new theme or create a second, only Dollfie related blog.

I won’t forget to thank my audience, thx for all your support, be it comments, feedback or just looking at the content. Thank you for staying with me, even with less frequent posts.

Greetings and applause to all still active bloggers out there.

Todays model is the lovely Riō and she will be presenting the casual underwear set, I’ve won for a fair price on Buyee. I liked the cute pattern and a good feature is the adjustable size. With her DDS L body size Riō only fills the smallest step, it’s probably for older sisters ;D

I was surprised how wonderful Riō looked in this elaborately made, casual underwear ♡＾▽＾♡.
It totally fits her youthful charm and accentuates her pretty zones, the single piece torso is really giving her a nice shape, still I consider to switch to a “DDS shapely L” which looks nicer with clothes on, it won’t make a “big” difference, but don’t underestimate the cleavage effect.

When taking pictures of my Dolls I still struggle with creating a decent lighting on the scene and fitting backgrounds are even harder to find. I was using 2 external flash units  left and right, facing away from the doll, only illuminating the surrounding walls will make a good, bright light situation. Background cloth can influence the lights color to a certain degree.

That should be all about it, next time, on voluntary basis, Riō will show us the recently arrived ＤＤｄｙ版ぴ～ち☆パイぷらす “DDdy-Pichipai plus” which is actually intended for another Dollfie.

Hi there,

Mirai and I went on our first Honeymoon ♡＾▽＾♡ … Ok, I’m just kidding the reason why I brought Mirai along during my vacation was much more unromantic, I simply wanted to use this opportunity to get more experience with Doll Photography with focus on Outdoor.

2 weeks ago I took my yearly main vacation and traveled to France, in the Dordogne region. Taking a trip to Paris is something I want to do another time, I was just driving through it and the traffic appeared crazy with a lot of bumped cars, I was happy to leave this scenery behind.

For the travel I put Mirai in a bag, dressed in the most durable clothes she had and her Beanie to protect her hair. I have the impression that wearing the cap made it prettier ^^

Instead of dressing her as revealing as in previous posts, I really tried to make her look girly.

I always worry about making  standing Doll pictures, a secure stand and expressive poses are sometimes hard to combine. I bought the SmartDoll Airstand before vacation, it really helps with creating more free poses. I really like how she looks beautiful in the nature.

I found a nice place shortly before evening, there was a natural looking stone wall before a forest where Mirai could sit down.

I also tried to bring Mirai along during sightseeing, but my idea was wasted by the merciless heat that day, whenever I spotted a fitting area it was in full sunlight and I was drenched in sweat *icky*. I chose locations to something more nearby for most pictures.

At my vacation home base also was a pool, I thought it could be a nice location. Mirai appears quie excited all of a sudden. I put my tripod inside the pool where it wasn’t to deep. Days later I noticed that the tripod was still full of water D’Oh!

 It’s the pool!!!

I admit I didn’t want to drown Mirai, so it’s only the first pool step, hopefully Mirai won’t rust.

As Mirai’s bikini was already in need for changing  after her “bath”, I took a few skin revealing pictures. I felt a little proud of myself for making her stand freely without toppling over :D.

“And where are my other clothes”

*Damn!* (⺣◡⺣)♡* The next day the bikini was already dry and I had fun with some more complex posing, she can be so attractive. Below Mirai makes some teasing Twister poses.

*Nom Nom” Even though I only have her basic hands, they are quite useul for a variety of poses. I love these Azone AZO2 pants with suspenders, the button barely closes, but it looks so cool. After the snack a little workout is a good idea.

“Hurry! I can barely stand here”

I did other things during vacation, like visiting an aquarium, eating many Crêpe, hunting lizzards and general sightseeing without Mirai. Asde from that I tried my best to take nice pictures of my pretty doll. There happened no damage with Mirai  during traveling, but next time I want to have a bag made for 1/3 dolls where I have to worry less about her safety.

The vacation with my Mirai SmartDoll was a lot of fun, I learned one or two things about Doll Photography during this vacation  and maybe I could improve a little as well ;).