Apart from vague childhood memories of watching Chinese-dubbed episodes of Nintama Rantaro on television, I approached this shoot for Alice and Tammu with little in-depth knowledge of the series. What I did have, though, was a pretty good idea of the look I wanted to achieve for this shoot, and how to go about doing that. One issue for cosplay photographers is how the original material translates across into photos, which are invariably based on reality...
This post is very different from the content you might be used to seeing on this blog. Basically, it covers a particularly interesting commercial job that I took on last year, in a genre very different from cosplay. The more technically-minded might enjoy reading this post, because I break down the process of preparing and executing for the job in order to minimise the chance of things going wrong. Context During the 40th anniversary celebrations at the...
Trying to shoot with cherry blossoms (sakura) is always a bit of a risky venture in Australia, because they aren’t all that common, and the ideal bloom period can be quite short. With the fragility of cherry blossoms, a rainy and/or windy day can quickly spell their end. That said, a few months back, there was a particular craze for shooting during the antipodean sakura season, particularly at a certain Japanese garden in Auburn, which was doing a...
Ayuvi and Alice asked me to shoot them as Rin and Ren from the Karakuri Burst PV a few months back. Taking direct inspiration from the colouring of the original art, I adopted a similar approach to the League of Legends Blood Moon Akali shoot, gelling flashes for the vegetation in the background. We used a small bamboo grove which effectively provided a “wall of bamboo” for the background texture of the shoot, and I then used a number of...
The first really concept-heavy photoshoot for me took place in May last year, when I put on a Creative Director hat (in addition to photographing) for the shoot “Darkness”. After putting off processing it for some time, I finally did it near the end of 2013 and did a limited release on my Facebook page. The delay turned out to be a good thing as it allowed me to look at the photos from a fresh perspective, and allowed me to use an updated set of...
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