The Munchkin's Notebook

On March 30th, I did a session for the lovely Natalie of Archaic Costumes & Designs for her constellation dress.   I specifically reached out to her because this dress really inspired me and helped me tap back into my creative side. For this session, I used: Photography Equipment Props/Miscellaneous Cannon R6 24-105 mm Lens Transmitter/Trigger 2 Phottix strobes 2 c-stands 1 Backdrop stands 1 grey canvas backdrop Sandbags 2 rectangular soft boxes 2 grids 1 3x6’ silver reflector A-clamps Ladder 1 blue velvet curtain 3 yards crushed blue velvet 2 yards grey velvet Books Table Bench Electric candles Telescope Skull Astrolabes   The set up When I saw the dress, I immediately thought of the Renaissance and a few paintings showing Renaissance astrologers, thus the theme for the shoot was born.  To keep with the theme, I started with a hand-painted grey canv...

This is a very late wrap-up of Katsucon 2024, but I have been busy with war college; thankfully, I graduate in June.  Because of college, I didn’t have my normal Katsucon session schedule because, I needed to balance schoolwork with my post convention photo editing workload.  Also, my husband and I brought our niece with us, it was her first big convention, and we needed to make sure she could enjoy the convention.  I would like to give a special shout-out to LifeofCosplay for showing my niece the cosplayer's perspective of Katsucon. We arrived on Friday afternoon, instead of our normal Thursday evening, which meant I did not have any Friday sessions scheduled.  I didn’t get out onto the floor until after 3:00PM because I had to be on a teleconference till 2:30PM.  I took a few floor shots and went to the cosplay met gala runway show since I knew several people walking the runway.  This year’s gala was moved to the Cherry Bloom Ballroom, where they were ...

On February 11, I did a traditional portrait session for Yancy. In this session I focused on getting him nice headshots for professional sites, as well as some nice portraits that showcase his style. For this session, I used: Photography Equipment Props/Miscellaneous Cannon R6 24-105 mm Lens Transmitter/Trigger 2 Phottix strobes 2 c-stands 1 Backdrop stand 1 grey seamless 1 canvas backdrop Sandbags 2 rectangular soft boxes Eye-light reflector Chair Stool End table Decanter Rocks Glass The set up For this session I shot two basic sets up, one for a headshot and one for traditional full body portraits. The reason I did two set ups was because the client needed two types of photos, headshots for professional websites and then more traditional photos for personal use. Now while the sets of are fairly similar, how they are applied is not. For the traditional headshot lighting, I used two str...