Highlights of 2011: Part 1

This has been a crazy year, but here's some of my favorites from 2011. Nowhere near all my favorites of this year, as these are just from private shoots. I still have some pics to finish up, or start.

Weekend Shoots

Heading into Carlisle, PA, this Saturday to shoot with one of the winners, Danielle, of the contests held by my friend, Lindsay. I booked a three-hour block at RareToy Studios to shoot, so can't wait.

On Sunday I'll be shooting with a friend of a friend, Olga, and it looks like we're going to be aiming for the streets of SoHo.

Lack Of Updates

Sorry for the lack of updates, been busy with work and life, stress and all, LOL!

Here's a pic of two cosplayers from "Calling All Gamers" at QXT's back in July:

Bad Girl & Cammy

AnimeNext 2011

Okay finally done with the photos from AnimeNext! Here's some samples:

Oops! Been Forgetful!

Sorry I've been busy lately, so I haven't updated in a while, but now with the warmer weather approaching (theoretically), things are getting more active!

Did a shoot this past Saturday with one of my friends, Kaitlyn. Here's a shot in infrared with some tweaking in post:

Also covered the "Legends of Synthpop" tour at Rebel NYC for VampireFreaks on Sunday. Here's a pic of De/Vision from the show:

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Here's a teaser pic from "Fairy Tales" by Geek Girl Productions:

In other news, "Knightmare6" is now officially trademarked! I also recently purchased a Tamron SP AF28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF) Macro lens, which I'm loving, but it started malfunctioning after a few hundred photos, but luckily I got a replacement in time for "Fairy Tales." So here's the hoping the replacement lens is free of any issues.

AnimeNext 2010

Sorry for the lack of update, but I've been grinding on photos from AnimeNext since it ended. I took WAAYYY too many photos, LOL.

Saturday was the longest day for me, as I was pretty much shooting non-stop from 6am to 8pm. That's fourteen hours! I also shot two events, the Cosplay Burlesque performances on Friday night, as well as the Hangry & Angry Fashion Show on Saturday. Still unsure of how many shoots I did total, but I had a few no-shows, a few reschedules and a couple of shoots that were added on later. Met a lot of new people, as well as hung out with friends who were there. Ran into a few faces I didn't expect to see. A few people recognized my alias, as soon as I gave them my card, so I'm happy about that! :)

Anywho here's a few teasers with more on my Flickr. Remember, I'm still on Friday's photos!

Just to point out, this was my second time using my Canon 5D Mark II, and after getting the pics back, I can still see I need to do a little more fine-tuning on my end. The LCD of my camera shows the pics to be way brighter than the pics actually are, so I ended up adjusting my F-stops and ISO based on that, which in the end, gave me much darker pics. So now I know, and knowing is half the battle! Yo Joe! ;)

Geek!

Tonight I attended Geek Girl Productions' video game cosplay burlesque event, Players, at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.

It was fun, got to meet some of the performers, some of whom I've been trying to keep in contact with to do some shoots later this month at AnimeNext.

Tonight was the first time I used my Canon 5D Mark II! Figured it was time to break this baby in, after sitting on it for months. All was well, except I ran out the door and grabbed the wrong camera lens! D'oh!!!

Still got some good photos though :)