Mi's Blog & Costumes
Experimental shoot time!
So in September 2019 Wayward Son came out and here’s Baz on the UK cover by Kevin Wada looking fabulous. I have wanted a floral suit for aaaaages.
This is not that suit.
This is a cos test and an experimental lighting shoot in my garage.
This costume was actually the main reason for that photoshoot weekend!
I made this for Costume College 2015, but never actually finished it with a correct necklace/symbol and his chest piece. AJ also didn’t completely finish her costume for that year, so we decided to make this photoshooting weekend the goal to get them done!
On another day we did two of my semi original outfits.
In 2008 I made an original Jedi, based a bit on Luminara Unduli/Barriss Offee. It’s not really a feat of construction or anything, but since we were already taking pictures and I didn’t have any it worked.
The other outfit was made in 2005 for a masquerade entry, the three of us were meant to be Elvish personifications of the three rings of power from Lord of the Rings. I was Vilya, the ring of air. As Elrond’s ring, I based my design basically on a mishmash of his movie costumes just in all white.
Oh man, I’ve had these posts sitting half finished in my drafts for awhile now.
Going to try to get back into the swing of posting with several “catch up” posts from 2016 (I don’t even know what happened to blogging in 2016!)
So first up, back in September AJ & I took a few days off too photoshoot old costumes so we’d have pictures before tossing or repurposing them.
The timing kind of sucked for real life reasons, but I went ahead and did it and here are the results.
On day One we shot Ayame from Fruits Basket, which I made in 2006, wore for literally 2 hours in 2007, and has been in a bin ever since.
We also shot Hotohori from Fushigi Yuugi, made in 2005 dear lord.
Man I’ve been meaning to post these for ages. But for various reasons never got around to it.
Anyway! Last year I was thinking, really four Regency dress is a bit much when I have two more planned, so I decided to sell my first one.
Doris was awesome and did a photoshoot for me so I’d have lovely photos to use for etsy. It sold, right when I was getting ready to post it and signal boost, but the pictures turned out so nice I wanted to post them anyway!
We shot at Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto, and my sister Elizabeth did my wig and makeup so that Doris could take some good shots for her portfolio.
More after the cut!
So!
Doris got some underwater camera gear a bit ago, she’s rented the gear before and done a few shoots, you can see them here.
For the preggers one I did do some minimal assisting, so I *thought* I was reasonably familiar with the whole underwater thing.
Lemme tell you it is WAY different being in front of the camera.
Behind the camera, you’re pretty much focused on one thing: getting the shot. Not that it isn’t hard, you have to keep yourself down in the water and there are other water things to struggle with.
So this “shoot” was a “let’s play with your equipment!” test.
We wanted to test how an umbrella maneuvers in the water, and how a night time shoot would look.