The Munchkin's Notebook

On March 13 and 14, I worked with Gretchen and Brett Bartlett respectively.  These two shoots were inspired by spring, yellow tulips, and Lindsay Adler’s yellow themed photoshoot .   For this shoot I went with a more beauty shoot/make-up ad inspired look and stayed  away from doing full body.  I made a headpiece from tulips and daffodils, and used a yellow tulle top that I made for a shoot last summer.  I kept it simple for the background and used colored plastic tablecloths in purple, yellow, and pale yellow.  The disposable plastic tablecloths work great when you don’t have rolls of seamless paper or a place to store seamless paper. Only downside is you get creases where the plastic was folded, but you can eliminate that in post or by blurring the background in camera. Let’s hear it for bokeh.  I unfortunately did neither of these items and lived with the creases.   For the first session with Gretchen I used two strobes, one with a beauty...

Back on February 13th in honor of Katsucon, which was canceled,  I held an in studio cosplay photoshoot day.  While this was not a real substitute for a convention, it was still a great way to work with several different cosplayers,  at a reduced stress level, no crowds of people, and a very controlled environment.  Because the event went well, I will be holding another one again in the future.  Normally at a convention I will work with anywhere from 8 to 10 cosplayers in a day,  but on a studio shoot day  I only worked with 5 cosplayers, which lent itself to a more relaxed and creative day. I held my studio shoot day at Something Old - Dayton ,  one of my favorite studios in the Dayton area. I used their loft space due to its overall size, set up, and availability of furniture.  I really liked the fake fireplace that they have set up since it worked well with basically all the cosplays I was shooting that day.  Additionally, since thi...