The Munchkin's Notebook

The year of 2019 was a busy year between running the Dayton-Columbus-CincinnatiCosplay Photo Shoot Group (DCC) which celebrated its 1-year anniversary,   making headpieces, doing several one-one studio shoots, attending conventions, working on a Masters degree, and getting a new position at work.   The first half of the year did not feel busy even though I was set up group shoots for the DCC, did several one-on-one creative sessions, attended a convention, and went on vacation to the Galapagos.   It wasn’t until I started my Masters program that I felt like I got busy and had no time.   The master’s program basically ate my weekends, due to having to write papers. However,   I did finish 9 of the 12 classes in the program in 6 months so I should finish that before June 2020.   Due to working on my masters, I did not shoot as much in the second half of the year as I did in the first half of the year.   I’m hoping once I’m done with the master’s pro...

On December 8 th ,   I participated in one of the Cincinnati Female Image Makers group shoots .   The theme for this shoot was White Out and it was held at Locust & Vince Studios in Cincinnati.   This was a small group shoot that lasted only an hour,   with four models and four photographers, we shot round robin style so that everyone worked with everyone.    It was a nice little group shoot,   the models were nice and it let me step away from hosting a shoot, and my school work.    (I’m in the middle of taking master’s classes, that is why the blog hasn’t been being updated as frequently.) For this session I shot 242 frames, edited 147 frames, and delivered 70 final images.   For this set up I used a Canon 80D, with an 18-200mm lens,   a light stand, a two 430EXII-RT speedlights (one was acting as a trigger/transmitter only) and small 9x9 inch LumiQuest softbox.   I was glad I brought the flash and softbox, because ...

ISO 400, Aperture F9, Shutter 1/250s,  Focal Length 18mm On November 10   I hosted a meet up of the Dayton-Columbus-Cincinnati Cosplay Photoshoot group at the Maple-Beech Lodge in Blacklick Woods Park which is part of the Columbus Metro Park system.   This event was the last event of the year and included a small basic posing workshop.    We had 6 cosplayers, 6 photographers, and 2 assistants attend, so the cosplayer to photographer ratio was relatively good.   I gave the short posing brief.   After the brief I had each coplayer come up pose for two photos, the first with no guidance on posing then the second with guidance after seeing how the first shot looked.   I used a tethered shooting method so   each cosplayer could immediately   see how they looked in the photos so they could adjust based on what they learned and group suggestions.   After the meet up, I provided each cosplayer with “contact sheet”   of each of ...