Yes, I know. I’ve been neglecting this site waaay too much lately due to studies and other happenings and events but I’m going to put more focus on photography again now and get soem photos taken whenever time allows for it.
First up will be a collection of photos from the Code Geass photoshoot I did back in January with Astellecia, Calssara and Lumis-Mirage. There are already some photos on dA from that shoot but I’ll be posting a more complete set here.
Another thing I’ve been playing with lately is post processing techniques since I’ve been told that my raw images are good but I really need to learn how to process them to give them that extra touch. Given my limited time due to studies I’ve only had time to look into one technique that I found quite interesting, namely HDR (examples of great HDR photos). I’ve tried to get it to work with cosplay photography even though it originally was “made” for photos of nature but I haven’t grasped it completely quite yet so for now I just use the results I get from my HDR merge (I use Photomatix) along with the original photos and touch it up a bit in Lightroom and Photoshop.
I’ve included a few examples below to illustrate the difference you can see in the final photo when using HDR, altho it doesn’t to it justice when down sampled to the size you can see here.
That’s right, a photo that has absolutely nothing to due with cosplay! I went to a nearby park this Monday and took a photo of a part of it that had a swamp-ish feeling to it and gave it a quick make-over in Lightroom, adjusting white balance, contrast and exposure to give it a more creepy look and it turned out pretty well.
For those interested I made a wide-screen wallpaper version, which can be found in my dA gallery here.
Yes, I did promise photos from J-popcon and yes, it’s a month ago already but I’ve been quite busy with studies and post-convention work. I also needed a break from it all to gather my thoughts after some drama unfolded during and after the cosplay competition. Why can’t we all just be friends?
Anyways, I’ve looked through the photos I took and realized that I almost didn’t take any since I was so busy as an organizer >_<; There’s nothing to do about that now though and I’d anyways rather focus on the present and future instead of the past. After pulling the photos through Lightroom and looking a bit closer at them, I’ve narrowed it down to 5 photos I’d like to share with the world and here they are:
J-popcon, Denmark’s biggest gathering of geeks and nerds (and me!) who has an interest for anime, manga, cosplay and so on is starting in a few hours and hopefully there’ll be a lot of great cosplayers there this year like always.
Even tho I’m a part of the J-popcon staff now and therefore have less time to take photos I still hope to get a few great shots. I really shouldn’t be down about having to do my part as an organizer tho seeing as my job is PR and I’m put in charge of taking care of some of our guests who just happens to be some of the best cosplayers in Germany :3
So stay tuned for a convention gallery!
It’s Halloween once again and this year I’ve had the opportunity to do a photoshoot with two great cosplayers I know, Lupin and LillyKitsune and the photos turned out simply fantastic! So without further ado, I present to you the Halloween version of Sora and Kairi from Kingdom Hearts!
