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WANTED: Comic Book Cosplay Photoshoot in NYC

Journal Entry: Sun Oct 14, 2012, 10:13 PM
WANTED: Comic Book or Movie Cosplay Photoshoot in NYC
Since more than half of my NYCC cosplay shoot fell through and because none of the remaining shoots were comic book-based cosplay, I am seeking to do one Comic Book Superhero, Movie, or Video Game cosplay photoshoot during a weekend in the near future.

For reasons stated below, NYCC was really a major disappointment in terms of cosplay photography.  I expended a lot of energy in shoot preparation for shoots that never happened.  My heart is telling me to get some kind of Western Pop Culture cosplay shoot done to make up for the lost opportunities  of last weekend.

So if there are any cosplayers in the NY/NJ/CT area that might want to do a photoshoot with me in the near future, PLEASE let me know!


NYCC
So I was in New York on Saturday and Sunday for New York Comic Con.  I only had a badge for Sunday but I had shoots planned for all weekend so I felt a Saturday badge wasn't necessary.  In fact, I was already too late for 3-day and Saturday badges when I ordered mine.

But anyway, I had 5 shoots planned for the weekend and managed to do only 2 of them for various reasons.  And the costume shoots I was most excited about did not happen.  With that and my Otakon experience, my future in convention cosplay photography is now abundantly clear to me which I will think a little more deeply about before saying anything by year's end.  But look on the bright side, I went 2 for 5 on photoshoots where at last year's NYCC I was 2 for 8.  In baseball parlance, that's like batting .400; Ted Williams-esque!  

With the free time available, I was able to play some Time Crisis 3 by the big Adventure Time balloon.  And that's pretty much all I did on my free time while not spending any money on the show floor.  Not bad, eh?


Fall Photoshoots
It's time to do this!  I would like to hopefully try and get at least 2 or 3 fall fashion-ish shoots done in October-November using a mix of film and digital.  (Fine, cosplay too).  I'll start contact those who had expressed interest in this pretty soon.  


I want to get some shoots done in NYC and Washington D.C. before all the leaves fall off.  I also want to try and do some shoots in Brooklyn as well.  If anyone in those areas are interested in modelling for me on a TFP basis, drop me a line!


Current Post-Processing Queue
I am currently on a 1-shoot-a-week processing pace.
Otakon04) Shunya Yamashita (NOW)
Otakon06) Shikabane Hime
BronyCon01) MLP:FIM
NYCC01) BLOOD-C
NYCC02) Adventure Time
+6 Calendar Shoots



Jikai! - Extremely Slow Murder on The Orient Local

I'll be on a 1-week post convention photo-posting moratorium.


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Hey Keith!

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if if you were able to arrange a photoshoot for my Loki cosplay. I did the version from The Avengers movie.

I can only do a weekend though, since I work Full Time at the hospital during the week. Let me know what works for you ahead of time!
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~XYoukuroX Oct 22, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
If all goes well after this Saturday, a casual Ghost Rider cosplay would be up for a shoot.
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~AuroraMaryte Oct 19, 2012   Artisan Crafter
That sucks that so many shoots fell through and you basically had a terrible convention experience. Carrying all that stuff in those crowds for just 2 shoots must have been horrible. I was just carrying a bag with a quick change of clothes, and only for about 15mins and my arms felt like they were going to fall off. ...and I guess for expensive camera equipment, you couldn't really just leave it in the coat check area for the whole day either.

Steph's got a Lara costume from the new Tomb Raider game. If you feel like shooting that, let me know. If not, good luck!!!
(..I've got a sort of comic group too...but it's not the actual characters, it's a genderbent type of thing, so I don't think that would interest you, but I figured I'd mention it just for the hell of it.)
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*TheBigTog Oct 22, 2012   Photographer
I was thinking about leaving some of my stuff in the coat check but I thought better of it. But I wouldn't have minded the weight if I had used my stuff more.

Hmm Lara Croft, eh? It is getting colder outside though. :(
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~AuroraMaryte Oct 23, 2012   Artisan Crafter
Yeah...they knocked over my girly briefcase bag. Some of my clothes spilt onto the floor. Same with other people's stuff, strewn around or thrown onto other stuff. But it was better than trying to carry that stuff around all day and it's just a bag so I didn't care. But with an expensive camera...idk maybe they would have treated that better though. Still it sucks that you had to carry it basically for nothing.

And, yeah it's getting cold. But she did a shoot with EBK at Katsucon. Outside, for an hour, in the middle of February. At least the new Tomb Raider design has long pants, instead of the tiny shorts she was in, and the cutoff tank top.
If you wanted to do it, I'm sure she could manage. I might just have to try warming her up or putting a coat on her between shots.
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~kitsunesqueak Oct 18, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Sorry to hear stuff fell through....I have some video game stuff but it's mostly final fantasy....(zidane and noctis)

Either way best of luck!!
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~BalthierFlare Oct 18, 2012  Student Artisan Crafter
Harhar if you ever have time, my friends and I are organizing a sometime-in-the-future group. It's Final Fantasy IX, the thief group Tantalus. I don't even know when we'll get to it but we wanted to do it soon XDDD
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*TheBigTog Oct 19, 2012   Photographer
Oh hey! Keep me posted on this one!
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~BalthierFlare Oct 21, 2012  Student Artisan Crafter
I shall!!
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*TheBigTog Oct 22, 2012   Photographer
Super!
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