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McPantserton posted:I hope nobody minds my shameless self-posting too much but I keep getting photos in from my Valkyria group shoots and I'm so excited with how they look. No Cherry, 1/10 (okay, seriously, this owns, you own, all those costumes own, that photographer owns)
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Splash Attack posted:It's kosher to post pictures of ourselves, right? Yep! We like seeing goon cosplay, especially when it's as well done as yours and your friend's. Please tell me she kept that smug mug the whole time she wore the costume, because it's perfect.
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The Electronaut posted:A friend's boyfriend at SDCC: Where do you find a plain silver ear cuff like that (preferably pierced, but not works too)? All my google searches return really elaborate pieces, but what I'm looking for is a simple sterling silver band like the one in this photo. I've asked a few jewelers and even a lapidary, and all I get is "that was a fad in the 1990's--good luck finding that stuff now!"
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The banjo guy from the cover of the SNES game Phalanx?
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Drone posted:I saw a cosplayer walking around the Gamescom vendor hall last week wearing no shoes at all. So...she was cosplaying as Commodore Perry?
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Yea. I thought it was pretty badass because you'd never see Lowe's or Home Depot going "Hey cosplayers and costumers! Come shop here for your cool stuff you need!" It is really neat, but how did the author manage to nail a word like "accoutrements" and then go on to say "a site to behold?" Eh, I'm just being nit-picky. The author did his or her homework, that's for sure. The blog could've easily just said "come shop with us for all your project needs," but someone put some care and thought into it.
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Boomerjinks posted:At Denver Comic Con I had the pleasure of seeing someone in a Deadpool zentai suit (mind you, no guns, belts, pouches, boots, etc) sneak up behind some Tolkien Elf and start pulling arrows out of his quiver, while two or three friends-of-deadpool in street clothes giggled and took photos. The elf turned around and front-kicked him in the chest. Tell me that while he was on the ground writhing in pain you ran up and put bunny ears behind his head and did other hilarious ~random~ stuff 
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zex posted:man i bet as soon as you get the bra off those things they unravel like a red carpet from a bugs bunny cartoon, one goes left and one goes right while making that flubflubflub noise, big giant waffle sized nipples going everywhere knocking people over and poo poo
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McPantserton posted:I'm working on Sorceress Edea from FF8 right now If you don't mind sharing trade secrets, how are you handling the weird curtain assembly she wears on her back? I guess, to be more specific, what are you making it out of? I've seen a few friends over the years put together Edea costumes, and they were all grumpy about the backpiece thing. One gal, who is very handy with ornate carpentry, actually made hers out of balsa. Wish I still had photos of it, because it was pretty amazing. It also had the benefit of not weighing a darn thing, but it sadly met its demise when she stumbled getting into an elevator 
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Seriously, amateur cosplay photographers--canted angles don't immediately make your photos amazing. Let your subject tell the story. Someone spent hours upon hours of work on that costume. If I have to tilt my head to figure out what's going on, all I think is "someone wanted this to look super fuckin' cool."
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a kitten posted:Ruth Baby Ginsberg I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Goddamn.
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Erebus posted:I don't know if this is makeup and contacts or Photoshop but it's kinda weirding me out either way. 
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Tollymain posted:it would look better if you framed it in black I suppose if you insist 
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The particularly egregious examples of the Dutch (or "canted") angle you've seen in this thread are usually about 45° in one direction or the other. Any more, and the photo will look sideways, and much less, and it'll look crooked. It's a very, very common habit that is easy to fall into for beginning photographers. That's definitely not to say that it doesn't have its place in cosplay photography, or photography in general. If you've seen just about any of Hitchcock's films, you've probably seen some pretty amazing canted angles and not even realized it. That's a canted angle done correctly--it's something you do to add a creepy or unsettling vibe to a shot (in Hitchcock's case), to fit in more into a frame than you'd be able to if it were horizontal, or because you only had mere seconds to frame the shot and snap the shutter. FYI, the last of those three happens in award-winning photojournalism all the time. Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo (I'm not going to link it, though you've probably already seen it. It's loving heartbreaking and he ended up killing himself because of it) is at an ever-so-slight angle, and whether by accident or intention, it adds to the already overwhelmingly unsettling nature of the scene. What the gently caress does any of that have to do with cosplay photography? Everything! If you're going for creepy/unsettling, do what Hitchcock did and employ German expressionism. Find some parallel lines (stairs work wonderfully), put your subject on/near them, and tilt your shot a little. A Pyramid Head on some stairs at a slight angle is way creepier than one in your driveway perfectly level with the horizon. If you're trying to fit everything in, go ahead and tilt it. This works really well when you've got two subjects interacting on different horizontal planes (a Harley Quinn looking up at a Joker, Superman dad and Superboy toddler, etc.). If you've got one shot to capture something magical in cosplay, you can probably get another. Deadpool do something zany and hilarious and you struggled to get your camera out in time, resulting in a nearly-sideways photo? Ask him to do it again. With effectively infinite "film" these days and plenty of time at your con or photoshoot or whatever, you won't really have a problem getting lots of useable shots of him giving someone a noogie. What's not on this list? "I dunno man it looks cool if you tilt the camera." 
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Snowy posted:She transformed from normal picture into full cosplay 45 degree angle photography! It's par for the course for selfies to be all sorts of odd angles so it would be wrong fix this one Stellar work on the costume. I hope she ran around all day asking why the rum was gone.
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EVG posted:Not bad! it would look better if you framed it in black 
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Kwyndig posted:Those are all good except for Tingle. Stupid sexy Tingle. Sorry she made your kooloo limpah
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How many times did this dude hear "I wanna pikachu pokeballs"
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poptart_fairy posted:It amazes me there are people who think Hannah Minx wasn't doing her stuff deliberately. Nah, man, her tripod broke and was stuck at the "myspace angle" setting, and her roommate stole every top she owned that didn't have a plunging neckline
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McPantserton posted:I just finished a new costume! Sorceress Edea from Final Fantasy 8, been working on it at a leisurely pace for like 5 months. I definitely managed to drop and break one of the horns on my helmet on Friday before I ever wore it but fortunately I had everything I needed to fix it decently. Holy crap, that's amazing
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Colonial Air Force posted:But also porn, so it has some redeeming qualities. Its only other redeeming quality is that it is indirectly responsible for hilarious Redditor spoof comments on YouTube that start with "Redditor with a 190 IQ here" and consist of racist/offensive/MRA stuff. I love every goddamn one of those and the incredible firefights that happen when people take them seriously 
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You know, I was just going to ask the thread "do you think writing your Twitter handle on your body in sharpie when you go to conventions is tacky," but then I read that and welp
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Bean posted:no hotdogs in mouth 2/10 the cafeteria was out Here's a genderbent Bathier courtesty of rurouni-jedi:  goddamnit 
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Hremsfeld posted:Anyway, a thing related to the thread that I found on Imgur: Owns. I wonder how long that took to put together. 
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Flakey posted:Is this the Nightingale set from the Elder Scrolls? Yep. Keep an eye on your coinpurse. e: beaten like a dragur
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umalt posted:I dunno, but it looks like a lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into it. Materials alone must've cost an arm and a leg. Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Eh, the cosplay community is pretty tight. I bet he got a lot of it through some kind of in-kind trade agreement. 
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Tony Bologna posted:I can't find a Piccolo cosplay that does make him look like that short dude from Star Trek with the jacked up forehead, but I did find this guy: The sharpie arms are killing me 
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Dr_Amazing posted:I always thought it was weird how sexulized the characters in Evangelion were since the show clearly states they're all 14. Come on, how is it "weird" for a show to depict a fourteen-year-old boy jerking off to a fourteen-year-old coma girl's tits in her hospital room 
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KillerEggplant posted:It's been suggested that Evangelion is deliberately creepy to point up the creepiness of the standard anime tropes it's using, as a critical comment about the genre. No idea how accurate that is, but it's an interesting theory, anyway. It's also been suggested that vaccines cause autism glomkettle posted:I'm pretty sure no one hates Evangelion fans more than the director. What that means with regards to that particular theory I couldn't really say. Well, it's their own drat fault. Legit depressed crazy person pours his heart and soul into a project that delights millions of people, only to get piles of death threats when it's over because he "didn't end it right." I can't think of a more appropriate and level-headed response under those circumstances than re-doing the ending so that everybody dies and including screenshots and photos of some of the death threats in a montage. Idiot fans are the worst 
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