Cosplay Photography

I happen to know some people who are awesomely talented at creating costumes in Perth and am more than happy to do cosplay photography to showcase their craftsmanship or just to get together and have fun! :) Here’s a list of cosplay photography shoots I’ve currently got on the blog for easy access. Hope to make this prettier in future but for now, here’s a simple list.

The format is: Series – Characters (Cosplayer)

UtaPri Photoshoot Preview [Cosplay photography]

by Sab on February 26, 2012

Here are some shots from a studio shoot I did in January with Aly and Min! They’re cosplaying Masato and Ren respectively from the new UtaPri-Debut game.

Uta Puri Collage

This isn’t even half of the photos – I will be posting more of them in larger size later on, I’ll see if Aly or Min want to upload some of them first. Min already has one of my photos up on her deviant art here that she edited for Valentine’s Day, so check that out if you’re curious.

I haven’t been posting much recently (or finished editing my other shoots) because my current term has a crazy amount of readings to get through and ongoing formative assessments so I’m trying to stay as up-to-date with that as possible. In addition, I have to make time for a photography lighting workshop I am doing by correspondence, with weekly assignments for critique for the next 2 months. It will be good to hear some outside feedback to improve my work and inject some new ideas into my lighting style!

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Macross Frontier Cosplay – Ranka Lee, Part 2

by Sab on December 12, 2011

More from the Ranka photoshoot with Jill, Teresa and I. I wanted to try out some angles with Jill lying on the ground, I really like the results – they’re these ones are toward the end :)

And to finish, this one is my favourite:

Credits

Blog posts in this series

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Macross Frontier Cosplay: Ranka Lee, Part 1

by Sab on December 11, 2011

A few weeks back Jill, Teresa and I went out to do a shoot of Jill’s Ranka Lee cosplay, here are the results! Jill is the adorable Ranka Lee (from the anime Macross Frontier) and Teresa was my fantabulous photography assistant and scout. I love working in tiny little teams like this :3

Credits

Blog posts in this series

Stay tuned for more: upcoming is some behind the scenes chatter ;)

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The last remnants of The Last Remnant shoot

by Sab on December 8, 2011

Here are the last lot of photographs from the series of three blog posts I’ve made with these The Last Remnant cosplay photos of Jen and Min. We shot against the sky for these, as it provided a clean backdrop and the clouds infused a nice, moody atmosphere.

Look into the sky

That’s all from me of Jen and Min, hope you liked them, I would like to shoot with them again sometime soon!!

Credits

Blog posts on this shoot

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The Last Remnant Cosplay – David Nassau

by Sab on December 7, 2011

As promised, here’s the next post in my The Last Remnant cosplay series featuring some of my favourite shots of Min and a couple of group shots with Jen as well. These were photographed back in July this year (2011).

The spear

Here’s a couple of group shots, they look much better large! Click on the images to see them bigger :)

Credits

Blog posts on this shoot

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The Last Remnant Cosplay – Emma Honeywell

by Sab on December 6, 2011

The detail and workmanship that went into Jen and Min‘s The Last Remnant cosplay at Perth Supernova was just amazing. For the uninitiated – these girls make the outfits from start to finish, using reference pictures, sourcing appropriate materials, spending many hours cutting, sewing and figuring out how to shape armour / props from base materials.

I have wanted to photograph these two together and finally got the opportunity in July this year (2011). Up close, the costumes were just as impressive as what I saw on stage, with embroidery detail and painstakingly sewed pleather seams. I’ll post these photos over a few posts, to start off with here’s Jen’s Emma Honeywell cosplay. Photography notes and credits at the end!

Min’s David Nassau cosplay will be featured in the next post, stay tuned or see her deviations below :)

Credits

Blog posts on this shoot

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Stocking + Pudding

by Sab on May 8, 2011

Just a quick post – Karina cosplaying as the character Stocking from the insane anime series, ”Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt”. This was shot the same day as the Scanty and Kneesocks photos back in Feb 2011.

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Vocaloid Cosplay: Rin and Len – Gemini

by Sab on April 24, 2011

Another one from January’s trip to Melbourne, this time Rin and Len from Gemini song’s videoclip on the Japanese synthesized singing game, Vocaloid. I was browsing through the images and felt compelled to edit some of them for upload despite having study to do… as you can tell from the recent flurry of blog posts over the last couple of days, I am really good at procrastination!

This shoot was fun! After the morning’s Dream of Doll studio shoot, it was a breath of fresh air to get outside (literally, heh) and not be constrained by fixed light sources. I love natural light. There is so much freedom to move and even with a reflector, it’s much more mobile than a light stand if you have super awesome helpers to hold them for you.

Here are some of the photos I liked best!
Cosplayers: Rin, the one in a dress - Siera (deviantART); Len, the one in pants - Aly (deviantART).

Argument

Skipping out of the cottage

Closeup

Thank you to K and Blair for helping me carry ridiculous amounts of camera gear around the park grounds and of course, Aly and Siera for being awesome, obviously I couldn’t have taken these photos without them :D For almost all cosplay shoots, I am unfamiliar with the source material and rely heavily on my models to send me reference material and give me a verbal rundown of the emotions they’re trying to capture in the images, choose poses that are in character. I try to bring whatever I can to the table to make it all come together. This is why I am not really a “cosplay photographer”. I enjoy taking photos of cosplay, not because of a love of the reference material, but because I like the people in my photographs.

Here are a couple of outtakes – I loved these flowers outside the cottage, they were striking with their vibrant purples and pinks, however I could not do justice to the flowers without having Aly at ant-size.

So many pretty flowers

I sent a bunch of photos from this shoot to Siera earlier in the week, so there may be alternate edits popping up soon!

Out take!

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Dream of Doll Cosplay: Luke, Ducan & Kalix

by Sab on April 24, 2011

Finally getting around to posting photos from the Dream Of Doll shoot I did in January this year, over in Melbourne. I didn’t have all my studio equipment on me, but ShinoMatrix let us use his house for a studio setup and was great help with moving stands around. ShinoMatrix’s gear included a two-stand white backdrop and we used my three flashes and triggers with his three flash stands and a handful of white umbrellas. Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot taken at the wide end of K’s awesome 10-20mm lens:

Lighting setup

In terms of the final lighting setup, I had two lights at 45 degrees to the model on either side; one main light which was shot through a white umbrella and one fill light that was half the power of the main (the picture looks different because the lights were moved for littlecrane’s shots, her hat was proving problematic). ShinoMatrix normally had his third light for filling the white backdrop with an even spread of light so I kept that in place. However, I wanted another light source to add dimension and so we commandeered a full length mirror from the loungeroom and used it to bounce back some of the other lights and create a rim light.

In terms of lenses and angles, I was standing on top of a kitchen counter several metres away, using either my 50mm or 85mm lenses. I wanted to be as far back as possible and avoid using the wide 24mm, as I knew that this would distort the image and the result would not be as doll-like. It would have been great to have a 200mm lens and be further back, but you have to work within your environmental constraints :)

So without further blather about the photography, here are the photos! Click on the names of the talented cosplayers to get more info about the costumes that they’ve constructed themselves and see their fantabulous deviantART accounts.

K-chan (deviantART) is cosplaying Black Luke from the Dream of Doll collection.

Black Luke - Handcuffs

Black Luke - Dynamic

Aly (deviantART) is cosplaying Black Ducan from the Dream of Doll collection.

Black Ducan - Cute

Black Ducan - Lounging

Blair/Littlecrane (deviantART) is cosplaying Kalix from the Dream of Doll collection.

Kalix

For reference here are some images of the real ball jointed dolls, taken from the Korean Website Dream of Doll and then montaged (featuring Luke, Ducan and Kalix from left to right):

Real Korean Dolls

 

That’s all for now, there may be more photos coming in future from this shoot, it all depends whether any of us have time to do the postwork!

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Alice in Wonderland

by Sab on December 14, 2009

This was done over a year ago!

The amazing Jessica Truscott (who also does photography) came with her Alice in Wonderland cosplay and mad modelling skills. Her sister, Sarah helped out holding reflectors and flashes.

Oversize

Sprawling Beauty

Here are some behind the scenes photos!

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Trying to get rid of raccoon eyes, it wasn’t working from this angle.

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What’s down the rabbit hole?

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Check mate!

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This is what the images look like before photoshop. I used two diffused flashes for this setup, but don’t remember exactly where. Maybe you can work it out ;)

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