Otaku High Cosplay Photography

AnimeFest 2008 - Thumbs Up

Kuragiman — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:22:26 +0000

The party is over and the smoke has cleared. Another great AnimeFest has come and gone! I had a supah blast at this one hanging out with all the cosplayer crazies and doing the mass of photoshoots over the weekend. I met some new faces and strengthened my friendships with others.

Photo processing will begin this weekend (I hope) after I finish up moving in to my new home. I am suppose to have internet up and running today but I still have a lot of stuff to move from my old place to the new crib. In all, I took over 2500 shots which should take me about 3 weeks to process all of them.

My con year is concluded with AnimeFest. Unless someone wants to pay for my hotel and con expenses, I am finished for 2008. The first con of the 2009 season I believe is going to be Ikkicon in Austin. Cons I have already confirmed for 2009 are Anime Central (ACEN) in Chicago and AnimeFest 2009 in Dallas. Cons I have on my agenda as maybes include MechaCon V, Anime Expo and Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Shout outs to my supah special con buddies; Katie-chan - You are the cutest thing to walk this earth and I truly appreciated getting to hang out, do some amazing shoots with you and have you volunteer to be my personal body guard and assistant. Nothing is more terrifying than a 4′10″ Sakura. *wink*

Nick and Erin - I am glad we got to hang out for more than just photoshoots. You two are great con buddies and great cosplayers. I look forward to raising hell again at the next con.

Ian and Holly - My darlings, my loves… a con isn’t a con anymore without both of you present. Thanks to Holly for taking me back home for an emergancy clothing retrivel when I discovered I had forgot to pack more dress shirts for photowork. XD

All my Super Friends at TMCC - ManaZ, Trooper, Con, Rose, Tamlin, Roth, Ali, FullMetal, Aerith and anyone else I might have missed. Great to see all of you again! Congrats on winning the Most Dramatic skit award for your Phoenix Wright skit. Roth… I nearly peed myself with your Freakazoid antics. ManaZ, glad I could help you get a little closer to your goal of world domination.

Okay… time to get back to work and then after work.. ugh.. have to go move more boxes from point A to point B.

Almost Done with MechaCon IV

Kuragiman — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:16:03 +0000

It has been so slow trying to get all these MechaCon IV photos completed. I did say up to two weeks and today, Sunday, is the last day of that two weeks and I think I can get the rest done today. :D It has not been easy to do since I am preparing to move to and have had to spend time every day packing and tossing out stuff I don’t want. There are only a few photoshoots left to process and then I need to upload the cosplay competition and then its off to AnimeFest at the end of the month!

Little Con - BIG HEART

Kuragiman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:22:27 +0000

It was a long drive home from MechaCon IV in Louisiana, made longer by the fact I did not want to come home from this 3 day party. I give a deep bow to Pete and John, founders and owners of MechaCon for throwing an incredible well organized convention. I met a lot of industry guests and had some amazing experiences with the voice talents and musical guests and of course just a blast with all the cosplayers. Somehow I survived the swamp heat and humidity around the hotel to hopefully have captured what you will consider to be great artistic photos.

As I write this article my main workstation is chugging away on the 25 gigs worth of photos, prepping them for editing in my CS3 studio. It should take me about 2 weeks to get everything online. Con sponsored events have to be processed first before I can get to you cosplayers. That is what I am working on today. There may be a slight delay in getting all the cosplay photos up as I am moving on the 25th of this month. Hopefully I will have most of the photos processed and online before that week of moving madness begins.

In conclusion; MechaCon may not be the biggest con I have been to but it is certainly one of the best run in the country. I hope they will invite me back next year. I will gladly make the 7 hour trip again!

Thanks go out to Pete and John again for being wonderful hosts and providing such a fun party for anime fans to rock out too.

Jesse gets extra special hugs and kisses for pitching me to Pete and John and getting me down to the convention. I luffs yous!

I learned several things that will make me more prepared for this con next year! It was a great experience and opportunity! Now… off to edit 3000 photos!

New Feature Added

Kuragiman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:55:54 +0000

If you look up on the main menu bar you will see a new menu feature; Top 50 Photos. This is a flash driven display of 50 of my favorite cosplay photos I have taken during the last year and half of doing cosplay photography. Go have a look see and thanks for all your support!

MechaCon IV Photoshoots Closed!

Kuragiman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:28:15 +0000

Sign ups for private photoshoots is now closed for MechaCon. Thanks to everyone that signed up! I can’t wait to see you all! Look for a letter to appear in your PM box with information on where to meet and what to expect. 9 days to go!

MechaCon IV Photoshoot Sign Ups

Kuragiman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:47:19 +0000

I have opened my photoshoot scheduling for MechaCon IV. If you are going to be hitting up that con and want a photoshoot then head over to this: MechaCon Photoshoot Sign Up Thread

Post your reservation in that thread and I’ll see you at the con!

Registration is Open

Kuragiman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:11:26 +0000

I have opened up the website now to user registration so you can comment here if you like. You must be registered and logged in to post comments on any articles here. To combat spammers and spambots comment moderation is on. Your comments will be approved frequently as I am always lurking in the shadows of my website as I work throughout the day. Come on in and say hello!

The Monolith has Arrived

Kuragiman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:35:28 +0000

I replaced my dead external HDD with a new Maxtor 500 gig monolith looking drive that has a glowing eye on the front of it like Hal 9000 from 2001; A Space Odessey. Bigger, Faster, Stronger… inspired by Daft Punk. I’ll be moving all the refuge files back on the drive today. The good thing about this drive is it has a 5 year warranty vs. the 1 year craptastic warranty of the former drive. It will probably still break after just a year of use but at least I can get my files restored for free if the drive fails because of faulty workmenship. Now I can get back to working on photos!

Operation Save-The-Photos Successful!

Kuragiman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:43:08 +0000

My 300 gig Maxtor external HDD that I use to store all my photo images and my music collection died on me a month ago and I thought I had lost everything. Two days ago on a whim I turned it back on and was surprised to see it fire up and start working again. I quickly saved two super important folders to my main internal drives and prepped the drives to receive more refugees from the external. But before I could do so it failed again with a “Delayed Write Error” message. That was a new one for me. I sighed and resigned myself to the fate of over 30 gigs of images and 20 gigs of MP3z lost… but to my delight the drive started working again last night. After a few hours of moving files I was able to save most of my stuff. I reformatted the drive this morning and it reported no problems with the platter inside. I don’t know what is wrong with it… maybe the USB cable is going bad and the drive is fine? Needless to say… I need a new drive or cable. Looks like it’s time to go shopping! Happy Friday!

Where are the Galleries now?

Kuragiman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:38:57 +0000

Some people have reported having a hard time finding where the cosplay photography galleries are now. Look up at the top menu. Menu option #2 is where the galleries are now. ^_^ Just click on it and you’ll be wisked away to the magical land of cosplay. Enjoy!