Joliezac's Prehistoric Photography: *Updated June 22nd*

Here I will be posting photos of my prehistoric photo shoots, whether it be dinosaurs, mammals, or anything else!


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Oh man, these are the most absolutely incredible outdoor figurine photos I've seen ever, and I've seen a lot! You did an absolutely AMAZING work not only with landscapes, backgrounds and elements, but also with an extremely dinamic poses, field depth, and the most difficukt: flying dust, waves and water splash. You're really talented!

Formidable! I knew it was a myth, it was not one asteroid that killed all dinosaurs, it was a pair of asteroids.

These are awesome! Once again, you have a great eye for photography. And you have a rare safari smilodon cub!

Magnificent, I was thinking the water shots were great but as I scrolled through there's so many I could pick out and compliment as excellent, I may as well just point vaguely upwards at everything!
Some of these look easily good enough to go on the manufacturer's pages to advertise how great their models are, seriously, lots of these are many times better than the paid professionals who do those publicity shots!

Aw thank you so much! I try to make my photos as realistic as possible, or at least try to put them in a biome that would seem like it would suit them most. I haven't been doing these for very long therefore I only have a few locations I've taken photos at. So I'm VERY excited to find new places to photograph and take figures with me when I travel.

Superb photos!!!!!

Pardofelis wrote:

Oh man, these are the most absolutely incredible outdoor figurine photos I've seen ever, and I've seen a lot! You did an absolutely AMAZING work not only with landscapes, backgrounds and elements, but also with an extremely dinamic poses, field depth, and the most difficukt: flying dust, waves and water splash. You're really talented!

I completely agree with what you said- they're stunning!

All your photos are amazing!

I am very imlpressed by your skill to suggest movements and life!

The last photo seems so dramatic,.. could be the impact moment of the asteroïd?!..

I haven't updated this topic since it was started. Today I went out with strictly prehistoric figures however, so that can change! With my recent dino fever and new prehistoric additions, I figured it would be a great day to get some photos.

The creek is finally green with all the plants growing back, perfect for photos once again

I took many so I may break it up into a few posts.

Had to start it off with my newest addition: Nanmu Studios "Once and Future King" Tyrannosaurus rex figure. Inspired by the buck from the Lost World, JP.

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Filling in for the doe rex, Rebor's Killer Queen "Plain" variant:

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And their baby, Junior, portrayed by Papo's juvenile green rex

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The stunning new diplodocus by Eofuana. I was struggling to photograph it due to the length  

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Papo dimorphodon:

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Then I realized my poor Safari oviraptors didn't have any photos, even though its one of my oldest dinosaur figures. I was so happy to see the pitcher plant from last year back and green again. So I used it as the backdrop.

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Then some curious Compsognathus by Rebor & Papo:

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Since its quite long, I'll post more tomorrow!

Really great lush green foliage there... I am a bit jealous.
NIce photos again!

  Excellent pictures with all these dinos (except the first one with diplo and you know why! )

Fantastic pictures. Some look like I'm watching a dino movie. They also help to see how spectacular are some of these models.

Wonderful, the sharp photography and natural daylight really brings out the detail of the models.

I'm surprised how well the three brands work together as a matched T-Rex family, they don't clash or contradict each other despite being from three totally different companies - usually there's something about varying artists' sculpting styles or different factories paintwork design which makes models not quite blend well together even when they're the same scale, but I don't feel that with these.

Thank you so much! I had so much fun photographing the rex family, I was surprised at how well they went together.

Here are the rest!

Rebor & Papo stegosaurus:

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A rival male tries to take over the old buck's territory, but it unsuccessful...

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Eofauna konobeladon, (I honestly wasn't really sure what the habitat of this species was so I figured I would have him visit a stream)

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Eofuana Atlasaurus:

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Nanmu Studios giganotosaurus:

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A hungry Papo pentaceratops:

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Then a small series of photos that go together:

A small herd of triceratops make their way towards the stream for a drink, but they get the feeling they are not alone...

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The doe rex makes her appearance, and charges

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The triceratops band together and prepare to defend their young

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But to their avail, the male comes to backup its mate

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A herd member is lost, and so the circle of life continues.

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The remaining members complete their journey to the stream and take a much needed rest.

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Hope you enjoyed! I usually photograph more variety, but I had too much fun playing around with the rexes  

a few additional shots:

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Wonderful pictures, wonderful models and background!

I had the same idea with my Triceratops and my T-rex but I have a little problem with my camera.. 

So many wonderful pictures. When I see pictures like this I don't know if it looks like a happy family or if it is supposed to be sinister.

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Really great shots! That male T Rex is gorgeous.

Oh my, excellent figures and photos...............Welcome to Jurassic Park

You just made my day!

A great sequence, really carefully thought out in set-up and composition, which makes the shots look so much like scenes from one of the good CGI documentaries, and low camera angles to use the height illusion to make the animals look as big as they should be

And so many of these hunting set-ups have to end with the prey escaping cos laying it down 'dead' wouldn't look realistic enough, but the corpse figures really help with the storytelling possibilities!

Thank you for all the kind comments! I really enjoyed the sequence, I'd love to do some more

Joliezac wrote:

Thank you so much! I had so much fun photographing the rex family, I was surprised at how well they went together.

Here are the rest!

Rebor & Papo stegosaurus:

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excellent photography! and these photos are very emotive and my 3 favs from this group

I love seeing the baby dinos, I never knew there were that many! they are so cute (even the Trex baby), makes my heart melt

you are an exceptionally talented natural photographer, and like someone mentioned on here earlier - these pictures would be great marketing media for the companies prducing these models. Have you directed any of them to this page ? I think they may appreciate it :)

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again - cannot praise these enough that baby Trex is adorable

I love how the tiny little green spiky ball flowers in the foreground are untouched, and you can see the sticky bits on them. It's like you are there too, watching all this silently!

the baby oviraptor is beyond cute!! I love how it is as big as the spiky ball flower!

and those compsognathus lizards in the last 2 pics are beautiful