Possibly my favorite photo anyone’s taken of me, ever. And it was a fluke, at that!
By joeshadows, as always.I’ll be putting together a big post about that Garcia jacket in the next few days, because I’m more proud of it than the rest of my other costumes combined.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3 w/ Olympus ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 Lens (I think)
More photos from joeshadows!
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3 w/ Olympus ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 m4/3 Lens
(I think. I also switched to my 45mm f/1.8 a few times, but I can’t remember which shots in this set used it.)
The lighting wasn’t optimal, but I’m super grateful to joeshadows for taking these photos of me!
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3 w/ Olympus ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 m4/3 Lens
seeing zas’s awesome picture reminded me that i had meant to post this. Kyle was messing around with a macro lens and my eye.
Apparently I have central heterochromia and I never really realized it. Both my eyes look like this.
Macro is fun. Narrow focus plane gets frustrating sometimes, though, when its narrower than the subject you’re trying to capture. Also, I need to get some reflectors.
My friend Potatoart also doing some glamour posing with the cherry blossoms.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3 w/ Olympus ED 14-150mm m4/3 Lens
At CBF, I found out that the bit of cherry blossom trees near the pagoda makes quite a nice backdrop. Here, silencedrowns models her Remilia.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3 w/ Olympus ED 14-150mm m4/3 Lens
Some new friends of mine goofing around at CBF.
I still can’t avoid a bit of desaturation when I export the RAWs in photoshop into jpegs.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3 w/ Olympus ED 14-150mm m4/3 Lens
While I was out shooting macro, as shown in my previous post, I also messed around with my new portrait lens. I have to say, I rather like it- although sometimes that beautiful bokeh from the shallow depth of field bites you in the ass when your focus plane is narrower than the subject you’re trying to photograph. Think I’m getting the hang of it, though- manual focus assist helps a lot.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3
Lens: Olympus m4/3 45mm f/1.8
I played around with some new gear today, as well as with macro shooting, which, as I discovered, has a whole different set of challenges to normal shooting. It does produce some interesting images, though. I really want to do this with silencedrowns’ eyes.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G3
Lens: Olympus m4/3 ED 14-150mm f/4-5.6 w/ Macro Lens Attachment
I’ve only ever posted one “teaser” photo of this costume, so now that there’s some decent photos, I can’t resist posting a mini-set!
Me (Hanyaan) as Makoto Kikuchi from THE iDOLM@STER, Meruhen Maid version, with some other members of the group I’m in, Angel Hearts! We each made our own costumes; our Chihaya made a base pattern which we all followed and edited to our sizes. Welovecolors managed to provide enough [color]-and-white socks to fill up a whole group of girls in striped thigh-highs. They’re awesome! I really love when Angel Hearts gets to make outfits in image colors; it’s a bit trickier than sets where it’s same fabric different outfits, but I think the payoff is more than worth it. My favorite set is still Pop Sound Blossom, but when you get enough rainbow maids together (and sadly four isn’t quite enough, not when Makoto is one of them), Meruhen Maid is absolutely adorable too! These outfits are great for dancing. The skirts swish all over the place!
These photos are from Anime Destiny, a small convention held in Berkeley last October. It was a really small event and it had some organizational issues, but it was great for photo locations!
Makoto: Hanyaan (silencedrowns on tumblr)
Chihaya: babysnowleopard
Ami: CherryTeaGirl
Ritsuko: jenjenkc
Photography: Joe Shadows
Did this one a while ago, never got around to cleaning up the shots (which is a bad habit of mine, I’ve still got a few shots from AoD last week that I’ve been meaning to process and post).
I just remember that I took these back when I had no idea what I was doing, so I chose the lens because it was the fanciest one in the kit that I’d just picked up, and I had no idea what to do with exposure values (true confessions here, people). In retrospect, I was lucky I was shooting in RAW with a fast lens. Thanks for cleaning these up, Hanyaan.
Camera: Olympus E-510, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 Lens
