I am wondering how this post will fare against all the boob-laden posts I usually do because this time its solely about a guy.He was the third Cosplayer at the Event I attented in December and of course I also gave him the attention he deserves even though taking pictures of guys wont become a favorite past-time of mine XD

Hit the Jump for some Pictures and some further rambling!

I know that this is totally out of the usual context of my blog but I hope people wont ignore it or worse just because its pictures of a guy this time.I think that he should have the same opportunity as the girls to be photographed and published on my blog.Even if this isnt your Cup of Tea i think its only fair to acknowledge that also males are cosplaying and putting effort into this.

I was rambling about how I got interested in Cosplay Photography in my other post and ill refrain from doing that again. Instead I wanna talk a bit about what I learned from the shooting and the weather we had to work in.Its pretty obvious that it was snowing around that time of december and boy was it snowing.We were pretty lucky that it wasnt snowing for the most time during the shooting and were able to have a smooth session without having to take cover or switch location.

I took my small Lastolite Reflector with me because I thought that it might come in handy because there were actually people that could hold it for me this time. Soon after arriving in Cologne I realized that it isnt needed though because the snow is of course reflecting the light, making the reflector obsolete.This well known property of snow brought up another problem I already expected to encounter: your DSLRs Light Metering System is pretty useless. The Whiteness of the snow is messing pretty badly with it,ending in underexposed pictures unless your manually correcting your cameras setting or shooting in M mode.

Throw in a bright Costume like Garuru`s and your in for a pretty hard time.I had my fair share of trouble to get well exposed pictures of him.Unlike the two girls hes covering less of the frame and as a result more snow is visible ready to mess with the my DSLRS`s Metering. Throw in the wacky yellow Jumpsuit and you get many bad pictures that sadly end up in the garbage bin.

Talking about that wacky Jumpsuit…Garuru is cosplaying a Character named Hiro-C from a series called Dear Girl-Stories-Hibiki which I of course have never ever heard of before.I tend to notice that what I like and Cosplayers like doesnt seem to be compatible at all.I guess this is mainly rooted that I feel more in touch with the English Speaking Scene and those are often limited to the german scene only.The Fact that I have a tendency to like Ecchi Series is probably also noteworthy even though I am of course not limiting myself to those only.

As you might have already noticed theres also a inconsistency of colours and sturation inbetween these pictures which werent as obvious with Hotaru & Kyouya.This is also due to the fact I had a hard time balancing exposure,colours and saturation in Lightroom thanks to the snow and jumpsuit. Its not awfully bad but noticeable and I cant see a way around it unless I tone down the pictures and take away some of the BOOM. To me Cosplays are alot about the colourful Outfits though so I decided to live with it and hope for better working conditions the next time.

What else is there to say? Its still obvious that my Composition has alot to be desired and I still have problems to get rid of pictures that didnt turn out too well but I am strangely very attached  to them.The next CFS is just around the corner and hope that my experiences from the first CFS will help me to take pictures there.

Its actually pretty hard to find interesting poses for a Cosplayer whose character you have absolutely no Information about.In the end you have to make everything up on location and that doesnt work out too well as you can see in this set.My only excuse is that I jumped into this three days before the event and couldnt look anything up about the characters.This is definately something ill have to chance for the next event.