epiic (SpookyElectric)

Mikomicon Cosplay & Concert Pictures are up. Only one month delayed.
Slideshow mode was broken for some browsers. That should be fixed now.

Too busy to write up much - go check out the gallery, there's some cool stuff in there.
Con Summary: Con was good, but hot. Wish I woke up earlier and could stay later to beat the heat. Still, got a lot of good photo time in, just had to deal with 90-some degree heat.
Also, CVS Fails: They cross processed a roll of E-6 35mm film as C-41, which for some Holga shots, worked nicely. But for my SLR ones that I wanted correct colors, I had to fiddle with curves to revert the effect - one such image.



Fanime... shortly after Yaoicon probably. Gotta work on cosplay.

SpookyElectric's Otakon 2009 Cosplay Photos
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...and perhaps my favorite pictures for in-characterness:

Bak (D.Gray-man) is the founding member of the Dark Order's Creepy Photographer Brigade. ( + )

Next are ComicCon pics (few days? probably less than a week), then probably Fanime then AX.

So, there was this little event in San Diego last weekend. I went. Sort of:

- Arrived Saturday Night, later than I planned (~8:30pm vs 7pm), met wintressrain

- Lightrail/Trolley to room to drop stuff off. wintressrain wrapped up making her Tabris/Kaoru cosplay.
- At stillvisions panel at Otakon he mentioned bounce off colored walls is a problem. I don't really agree. Colored bounce can be fun. Flash bounced off red railcar in first pic. With white balance, the background/shadows can be the interestingly colored part. (2nd pic)
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- Photoshoot of Tabris. Covered ~4miles of territory in the pictures.

- Wrapped up the shoot finally making use of the NERV projector slides I made for Otakon, with help from dust_eden holding it while I shot wintressrain. dust_eden wanted a pic with it too:

(If any of you are curious about how that works, see my post from last year's Code Geass shoot)
- Back to room. Circuit breaker tripped. Left dark room for ~3:30am dinner @ Denny's

- Sleep ~5:00a, Wakeup ~8:30a, shower / get into Cross
- Off to con, shoot some of wintressrain's Linali
- Discover tweetychick630 while going in to the con center.
- Back out for D.Gray shoot by Eric. Encountered some friends from SCU on the way. (Shiaw-lin, Loretta)
- In to Mariott to cool down. Try to collect people for lunch. No luck.
- wintressrain wants to leave. She left to hotel. Realized I have her keys, and had to head back too.
- Back to con, found themarchingoboe who I haven't seen since we met at PMX. Chatted, wandered exhibit hall. She had to catch a train.
- More wandering, bumped into tweetychick630 again (well, literally bumped into a friend of hers she was with), then met up with dust_eden, our other roommates, and others.
- Off to MSG shoot w/dust_eden. Both of us had some gear failures. Got a few shots before leaving to dinner.
- Dinner @ Yard House w/ dust_eden, tweetychick630, and two of her friends (Ryan, and R???). Encountered blanklogo there as well. The dinner there and hanging out with them was probably the highlight of the weekend. (Next best part was the Sat night shoot)
- Had to leave because Internet Explorer sucks and a security feature of ours caused IE8 users with certain plugins to not be able to use our site. Lack of competent laptop means I couldn't stay in SD and take care of it remotely. (grr... I think I'm going to have to buy one soon for my sanity)



Thanks to ktmonkeyj for not going, so I had a badge to use part of Sunday :)
I wish I could have seen more people, but at least I think the people I missed are all ones I see more frequently anyway.

Otakon & ComicCon pics in ~1wk. Fanime & AX Pics ~2-3wks?

SoCal Cosplay Spring Pictures

Picnic was fun. Arrived with wintressrain and dramaelf. Spent most of the time with them, tsuzusushi, krispy_kream, chiharu_octavia, legally_scarlet, hyper_sam, daoutlaw, and Jared/Erudito. And not nearly enough time with everyone else. And I think some people I managed to completely miss. (Sorry)

I wore my Last Exile mechanic uniform. Mostly since I felt everything else I had worn too much. And with that one I could get a tiny bit more sleep by skipping shaving. I'm amazed how many people recognized it. I think more than when I wore it to cons (~2003-2004).

Being a little burnt out from work, I wasn't feeling too inspired photography wise. So very few pictures. (Despite having three cameras) The cat is dramaelf's.

Trip back was a bit of an unwanted adventure. Plan to take the train kinda failed due to getting the train in the wrong direction. Thankfully wintressrain saved me by giving me a ride back. (Since there were no more trains North from where I got stuck.)

Next up - UCLA cosplay picnic tomorrow, and then something in San Jose all too soon.

Pictures from March Cosplay gatherings in SoCal
Note: I'd suggest slide show mode full screen, since that is set to now use larger images than you get just by clicking on the pictures.
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A bunch of pictures are on my site
( Some highlights under the cut )

(no, that's not a composite, it's a single shot)

Also...
Fanime: Anyone have room space available?
Katsucon: Any of you looking for photos? (particularly non SoCal people)
Random: Got to play in real snow yesterday. Yay. Kinda hurt my left knee on the last run. Boo.

Real photos won't be up for awhile. ALA was fun, but I'm pretty sick right now :(
( Con Report )
( silliness )

PMX Cosplay Pictures (includes some pretty cool stuff)

One week after the last con I attended, I went to another one, though just for one day. ( more on that... ) Basically it was a slow day but enjoyable.

Manga Next Cosplay Photos are up at epii.info
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PMX Post soon (tomorrow? day after?)

Many pictures posts from people recently. Here's mine.

Full Mikomicon Cosplay Gallery Here

( Con Report / Select Pictures )

Cosplay Pictures from Otakon 2008
( Stories. Tons of text. Some Pictures. )

Full AX 2008 Cosplay Photo Gallery

I didn't enjoy AX overall. However, my problems with the con this year were not management/staff (why I was planning on not attending) related like most years. My aversion to the con this year mostly stemmed from room coordination BS and a general lack of interesting (to me) stuff going on.

( Report & Highlight Pictures )

Next up: SDCC? (I don't have a place to stay or a ticket, but now that I'm in the area, I'm curious to check it out. And I want to see lionboogy's Bumblebee.) Anyone from around here mind me tagging along with them?
Cospix? It doesn't sound all that exciting, but it is walking distance from my place. Who else is going?
Then Otakon!

Yesterday was a Code Geass gathering that I organized. yoshikochan, whitelilacs, evalime, tenshiyaki, jangmi, and sklathill attended.

( Highlight pictures below Cut! )

( Notes for those who were there )
sklathill's pictures: & more
evalime's pictures: & more

Click for full set of SpookyElectric's Fanime 2008 Cosplay Pictures

Average quality is not so great but there are some pretty cool ones in there.
( Some highlights below the cut )

( ...and two pictures by other photographers )
TeniPuri Omake "comics" in another post in a few days maybe.

I'm wrote this shortly after Fanime as things were fresh in my mind. The delay in posting is because I wanted to wait for processing pictures, because I'm sure that's what you really want, not a wall of text. I don't have all the pictures done yet. I'll post a gallery link later (1wk?) once everything is uploaded. But there are some pictures in this post.
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Last weekend was the SoCal Cosplay Spring Gathering. There were over 400 people there - most in costume, many in excellent costumes.


All my pictures from the SoCal Spring 2008 Cosplay Gathering are up at epii.info

( Musings... )
( Cos-pics of Epiic Win )
( Closing Thoughts )

Last week I got my second flash and wireless triggers and such. This Saturday there was a gathering in Little Tokyo here in LA. I went. I saw. I photographed.

Click for pictures from the event @ epii.info

( Report on the event and more camera experiments below the cut )