March 2008 Archives

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BlackMarth as Hollow Ichigo / Shirosaki from Bleach.
I ended up liking a lot of photos in this set. A few are sort of duplicates but I couldn't decide on which I liked better.

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Shot people and cherry blossoms.
More parts to come later. Next post resumes photoshoots.

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Sydney as Belle from Beauty and the Beast / Kingdom Hearts II

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Chiki as Alice from Alice in Wonderland / Kingdom Hearts

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Photos + commentary from Saturday of the con.
Sweet Poison as Anthy. Chiki as Amano Reina. Sydney as Amano Sylph.

Some more silly photos. Still fun. A couple of photos taken by Kevin (Stillvisions). I show up in a bunch of these as Utena.


I caught a sleeping Chiki. Ho ho ho.

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Photos + commentary from the reg line.
Sweet Poison as Jasmine. Chiki as Alice. Sydney as Belle. Henry from ACParadise.

Photos will be a little out of order. We were able to amuse ourselves for the 9 hour registration line wait. Some of the photos are a little wonky but I posted them cause I like them for one reason or another. :P


"I hear the wait past this point in line is only three hours now!"

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Top favorite non-shoot con photos.
In-con shooting sucks.

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Was bored in the office post-interview on Monday so I made a cheap little gel holder out of a manila folder and tape. It worked out pretty well, holds gels and hasn't damaged any of the ones I've tested out. Easily transportable too.

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Photos here shot with Canon Digital Rebel XT using Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens.

Starting off first with a delicious, delicious photo. A few non-food photos beyond the cut.

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Luck Gandor & Ennis from Baccano!
This is not an actual shoot. I am friends with the photographer and the cosplayers, so I jumped in to snap a couple of shots.
Main photographer: Sebastian Murphy

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Submitted for the TPC theme "Patterns/Repetition".

Sorry, I lied. Photoset pics up next post, I swear.
Quick shot of my roommate on Halloween 2007. Apparently it was well recieved, but I didn't attend thanks to exams.

I realize I haven't posted in a while. I blame that on the three exams I have on Wednesday. I've got a photoset almost ready for upload but I have to re-process a few. (Virtually no HD space on my laptop doesn't exactly help. Very, very excited for my external.) You can probably expect them Wednesday night, unless I'm too tired.

In any case, I've been procrastinating by watching War Photographer and reading up on other people. I'm really looking to improve so I've made a partial list of things I'm taking into consideration:

• Shoot more, expand to different types past portrait and cosplay
  
• More themed days (b&w, etc), shooting at more events
  
• Improve composition, lower "trash the shot because it sucks" ratio
• Decrease usage of editing software (though it's not that much already, I swear)
• Improve with hand holding camera for less blurry photos (in low light)
• Improve with flash photography, play around with gels more
• Buying an external flash might be a good idea
  
• Develop my own style. For real.
  

Also, I don't exactly follow too many photoblogs. I love them, but there are only two I'm particularly interested in at the moment. If anyone has any good suggestions, I'd love to see.

I've also got a link with Adorama, so if you use it, please use my link to buy things. And for those who use Amazon (small reminder, don't kill me), I'd love if you used my link for purchases.

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A couple photos from Sunday.

Note, next photo batch will be cosplay but may take a while due to exams.

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Top favorite non-shoot con photos.
Note, there aren't many.

Photos can be found at ACParadise, or if you're looking for hi-res images, at Cosplay Meetup.
The latter site is just starting out, so please check it out. :)

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Finished a lot of processing last night ♥

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