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:
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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
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Stay tuned for more: upcoming is some behind the scenes chatter ;)
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.
That’s all from me of Jen and Min, hope you liked them, I would like to shoot with them again sometime soon!!
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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).
Here’s a couple of group shots, they look much better large! Click on the images to see them bigger :)
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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 :)
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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).
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.
I sent a bunch of photos from this shoot to Siera earlier in the week, so there may be alternate edits popping up soon!
