So…what’s with all the Hetalia photoshoot requests I have been getting lately? Am I missing the memo about its popularity, or I am just better known for taking Hetalia pictures?
I have an urge to do this more often…
Now, you have seen the beautiful side of all the models. They are all gorgeous, but behind the scene a.k.a. pictures I didn’t send to the gallery, they are all crazy, in a fun way.
Well, I’ll let the pictures do the talk.
I forgot what Simone was doing. Some kind of steampunk style dance?
Hhhhhhhhheeeeeyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what I get for snapping pictures???!!!!
And now being yelled at????!!!!!! ಠ_ಠ
Hey! It’s my friend Ken peeping through the hole! Check out his website sometime at sakuragarffiti.com. He’s very talented.
Cracking up after I made the “It’s America!” joke.
Blink while pictures are being taken…we’ve all been there.
What a princess is really like.
Of course, gotta rock the air guitar!
Zombie Zelda.
Another thing I observed from going through all these pictures was that these girls were all having goose bump. Was it really that cold that day? I guess I wouldn’t know…I was lugging all my crazy gears the whole time O_o. It was a workout.
Well, I hope you guys enjoy this post as much as I do. Gasukan 25 was mad fun, and I am sure GK 26 will be the same.
Continue from part 1…
After my shoot with Mina and Sarah, I began shooting Brette and BB. I haven’t had a chance to test my remote flash setup on them yet, so this turned out to be a great opportunity. We first headed over to the beach, but for some reason I have a hard time visualizing a good shot of Brette’s character at the location.
I mean, the wind was strong, sky cloudy, the location was perfect…but I wasn’t able to wrap my mind around her character in the middle of a modern city. Later though, I did realize that it’s totally possible because her character travels through time…
Anyway, here’s a shot of Brette enjoying her sunbath, in an awesome outfit while waving at sightseeing boat (behind the scene).
And of course, BB, one of the first cosplayer friends I made since I started cosplay photography.
After shooting Brette & BB, I went and grabbed Bethany, a girl I did a photoshoot of at Aki Con 09. I actually first took picture of her back in Sakura Con 09 (got a picture of her in her original Zelda outfit), so I kind of recognized her.
Nevertheless, we did some shoot using my trusty softbox, with her friend Brandon helping out to stabilize the softbox while entertaining the bunch. It was a fun shoot, and definitely contributed a lot to the behind-the-scene stuff…
As the day crept to an end and people started leaving, I had to make use of the time to finish my shoot with Sarah & Mina now they were in their second outfits of the day. Sky was turning dark, so we figured some indoor platform would be a good location. This is when Katie stopped by and asked for a couple pictures.
I am always open to people asking for pictures. Actually, I prefer this than me asking people for pictures because it made me feel somewhat professional. heh. As it turned out, the location suited her outfit perfectly. The somewhat dark atmosphere and the sunset light creeping in from the edge of the roof lid up the floor, while I used the softbox to lit up her dress.
Epic, I’d say.
By the time we were done taking some individual pictures of Sarah, we moved out to do Mina’s individual and finally wrapping up for the day. It was definitely a very busy day for me as it turned out. No time to hang out, but my softbox experiment went really well and I absolutely got some fabulous images to share with people. As always, hit the gallery to see all the pictures from the meet-up, excluding the exclusive ones that I’ll only share on my post for GK25 – 3/3. Ha!
I hope people like what they see, and hey, if any of you readers got ideas of how I can expend my photography skills to be more versatile, feel free to shoot me a message (or messages). I am always open to constructive criticism.
Looking forward to the next GK26! Gotta get as much practice in before the big events come.
Gasukan 25 was this past weekend, and for a monthly meeting that got its location changed the last minute (approximately 2-3 days before), it turned out pretty good. Apparently people still check the forum quite often even though some may not be as active a poster.
Kinda like what I do (I don’t even have a cosplay.com account).
So as usual I showed up early. Not quite on time as I planned since there was an accident on I-5 which forced me to re-route. Nonetheless I didn’t miss much, as I didn’t see any of my friends showing up when I arrived. As it was raining, I figured today’s would be a GREAT day to further my remote flash experiment/practice. Good thing I brought my homemade softbox along, now with advanced modification so I can hook it onto my backpack and carry it with ease. Cardboard boxes FTW!
Anyway, not wanting to waste too much time being shy (♫Oh lord have mercy mercy mercy…♫), I went to the group and see what everyone’s doing. Soon enough, I saw a familiar face, Alex aka Fang of Critias. I saw him many times at Gasu, but have only got picture of him once before. So hey, as far as I can tell, people show up to Gasu to not only hang out, but also to get pictures, so why not ?
As a result, we got some menacing pictures of him.
Having absolutely no idea what his character is, he did some explaining to me and we figured recruiting a victim for him would be great. Then there comes Tiff. She was totally beaten up and tortured by Alex behind the scene, so gruesome that I’d go to jail if I post the pictures. But after she cleaned up a bit we took some pictures of her as well.
Yay for making friends from taking pictures of them.
As time goes by, friends started popping up. Mina showed up first (magically appeared behind me and silently stared at me as I turned. Scary, but nothing out of ordinary since she wanted to do a shoot at the cemetery), but since she needed Sarah for her theme, I made use my time by taking pictures of my other friends who brought along a couple of their friends to get some awesome pictures from “that guy who took that awesome pictures”, as they call it.
Afraid of being forced to work at a scone mine (long story…), I started taking pictures of my wonderful new friends Simone, Andrea, and Katie. Now, there are too many pictures to “feature” in the post, so I have to pick only a couple. At the time I was taking group pictures Andrea was doing who knows what, so to make it fair, here’s one picture I took that I think is pretty nice, featuring her secret cosplay (Guess what? I have no idea who that is!)
And the said group photo so everyone is featured. (Katie, Simone, Emma, Tara)
Concluding my little shoot with the bunch, I started my shoot with Mina now that she found Sarah. Woot! I met another person at GK 25.
Now Mina and Sarah were doing something about mafia, so I was aiming for that sinister, dramatic look. Kind of like Sin City…but no, I didn’t have that in mind at the time, just an afterthought.
Anyway, I think this shot of Mina dead (or dying? Guess that doesn’t matter) is pretty cool. *Photography jargon warning* bare strobe right, made the light harsher, which also made the scene even more dramatic. And since I am using strobe and I can dial down the ISO and shutter speed (we are not doing action shots), I used different f-stop to control the exposure, rather than adjusting the strobe power using its own control (it’s on manual, full power). Less moving for me, because I am lazy. *end photography jargon warning*
So the shoot continued.
I got a lot more pictures from GK25, and because of that, putting them all in one humongous post would be awful, so I am splitting them up to 3 parts. 1st is what you read today, 2nd for tomorrow, and 3rd for the next day…but it doesn’t stop there! While you might know what’s coming for part 2, part 3 is definitely for the fun of it because…it’s behind the scene stuff! Over the course of that 4 hours I got some pretty hilarious pictures, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Good for ab muscle training I guess.
Therefore, stay tuned!
This is Bethany, in her most awesome Zelda costume I have ever seen. Imagine the time invested in making this…totally worth it I’d say!
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