Wow, another Final Fantasy shoot? Yep! This time, it’s Final Fantasy XIII (thirteen, for those who are unfamiliar with the Roman numeral system), and the characters are Snow (Will) and Serah (Miyukiko). This shoot has been apparently long in the planning, due to the rather complex nature of the concept. I myself had doubts as to whether I would be able to pull it off...
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First mention for this shoot must go to Christie (Squall) for her tireless efforts spanning months to secure the location for this shoot. Since coming across this place last year, I never in my wildest dreams thought I would, in just a few months, be doing a shoot there. But there it is. Thank you, Christie and Miyu (Rinoa), for inviting me to shoot for you guys. I am...
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Executed a night shoot on Wednesday evening with Madara as Masaomi Kida, leader of the Yellow Scarves faction. We shot near the Darling Quarters at the new-ish bridge there for the casual hanging-out kind of look, then moved to an alleyway to do some of the darker shots. The bridge has a pretty nice view of the city behind it and it’s been somewhere we wanted to shoot...
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Well it’s been a long time since my last dirty alleyway shoot (and I can think of around four I have done), but here we are at another alleyway, this time off Chinatown, which is actually really atmospheric, has nice lines etc. Of course, when we’re talking about alleyways, someone has got to get beat up and this time it’s Kaiya (cosplaying as Setsuna Mudou from...
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Well, it has taken me some time to get everything processed and written up, but here we have the Olimpos shoot which was done last Sunday! Thank you to SorceressMooNBlaDer, itakoaya, sakanamochi and Minami for the invitation to shoot. While I didn’t know much about this manga by Aki before the shoot, I was struck during the research phase by the beauty of the art (as...
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It’s really easy to become caught up so deeply in what you’re doing that before long, you have lost perspective. Everything extraordinary becomes ordinary, and you fail to see the world outside of your own. As a photographer, it’s a constant danger, and even more so when tunnel vision restricts your creativity through the viewfinder, simply because you don’t see...
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Following the Macross Frontier shoot with Madara, we decided to showcase a coordination of outfits that she had brought back from Japan with a short fashion shoot. The overall concept was casual, kinda like how a catalogue type shoot would go, but I’m not very good myself at anything casual at all. This was done in the same room as the Niji iro no Kuma Kuma shoot, but...
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Madara just came back from Japan the other week and already I asked for a shoot XD So we did a shoot for the Niji iro no kuma kuma version of Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier! We even imported a giant teddy bear from the UK for the shoot (she kept it). The idea from the get go was for the over-exposed pastel type colours that many cosplay photos use. Of course, I’m a...
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On the last day of my holidays, I was involved in the execution of a group shoot with kotani, Kani, Jassly and Blue for the casual outfits of Tiger & Bunny. It was a tempestuous shoot, literally, as not only did we get kicked out of two locations in short succession, but the skies decided to start pouring electricity, sound and water in the middle of the shoot....
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Every once in a while, we fall down from the soaring heights of inspiration. The flights and expectations of our imagination turn to what can truly be called hard work. This shoot, the first of 2012, and the first since kotani returned from China, was such an experience. My lacklustre performance could be attributed to a number of things: the cloudy day (many of my...
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Also known as the “black and gold” shoot! I expressed an interest in expanding my portfolio of fashion-related shoots and Hehalana graciously suggested another shoot with the gyaru style fashion. Unlike the pink colour scheme of the lolita shoot, the idea for this shoot was to darken the atmosphere. The image I had in mind, then, was that of a slick bar. Since it was...
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When discussions of a shoot for Resident Evil (film) came up, I wasn’t sure if I was going, but a few things motivated at the last minute to make my way to Cockatoo Island on the day. Firstly, that it would be a good kind of supplementary birthday present for straw, who has been a great friend. Second, it was a chance to meet floatyman, a great photographer who was...
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The style of street shooting is something I have had an interest in for some time. Due to my personality, genuine street shooting is something which I am not very well suited for, but the styles of street photography itself, be it the street fashion of The Sartorialist persuasion, or the candid “in-the-moment” shots associated with that particular genre, have been...
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For lack of a better title for this shoot, I decided to use the name of the dress, which is Angelic Pretty’s Proper Girl onepiece, worn by the lovely Hehalana. It was great to work with her again for this shoot, and overall, the feel is definitely very different from the Alice-style shoot we did before. For one, this shoot was planned as an indoor shoot from the start....
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The house stands, shielded from the road by a thick growth of bushes and trees, protected by a fence. I hike down, around the fence, and there the old mansion stands, its colonnaded facade streaked with age and neglect, in stark contrast to the near-new white house adjacent. Graffiti adorns the incongruous tin roof addition. And I start the arduous trek up, through...
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As mentioned before, I am a journalist by trade, and I write for a magazine here in Australia called Electronics News. It’s not a glamorous job, as it’s a business-to-business publication which caters to engineers and other professionals within the electronics industry. That said, it does have its perks (mainly travel) and when I do features or articles that require...
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