I intentionally spread Neopets cosplay fever to Ginny Di, and in the two days after Denver Comic Con she made a Grey Faerie costume! The fever is apparently highly contagious, because we also roped in a new friend, Hide, to create Taelia the Snow Faerie in the same timespan! #sorrynotsorry And we looked f a b u l o u s on the day of the shoot, let me tell you. We started at Ginny’s in-home studio, a setup that consisted of a backdrop (we used white, then black), two studio soft boxes, a large ring light, and an off-camera flash! All the images I've included in this blog have minimal processing; I've just added a few color toning and skin retouching things in Lightroom to show what sort of cool stuff we were able to get before any Photoshop magic occurred! This was the first time either of us Ginnys had used an off-camera flash, but it turned out to be really easy. I just hooked up some radio triggers to my camera and my flash and vwa-lah! Instant backlighting! We also figured out how to do some nifty lens flares. My wings were especially neat when it came to the backlighting. Because they're made of a diffusing white sparkle tulle, they took on the hue of whatever color gel was over the speedlight, so I could switch between good and evil (or, paragon and renegade) modes!
Once we were done shooting inside, we wandered to the park across the street to get some photos of ourselves in “Faerieland”! As any hardcore Neopian knows, Faerieland fell out of the sky in Y12, landing the Faerie city in a lush Greenland between the Haunted Woods and Brightvale. We didn't shoot many photos here, instead deciding to focus on video. But we did get this very cute shot of the three of us in front of a bush! The full video will be coming soon, but until then, here's a teaser of Taelia in the snow! Keep an eye out for early access to images on my Patreon feed, as well as on Hide and Ginny Di's social media! All in all, this was a fantastic shoot where I learned a plethora of new things and got to collaborate with some incredible people! I'm really excited to be back in Philly and to work on some more fun, collaborative projects like this!
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