Cosplay photography

Cosplay is a type of photography that allows people to dress up as characters from tv shows or movies and get photographed doing it. Cosplay is also known as 'Costume Play' and is regulary photographed at events such as anime conventions where people from all over the world gather with the mutual interest of anime and a lot of people dress up. This is a popular play for cosplay photographers to get the perfect shots for them.

Pros:

·         You get to meet a lot of interesting people.

·         It’s very easy to be a cosplay photographer.

·         You get to visit events and conventions.

Cons:

Cosplay isn't exactly the most popular form of photography and it is marketed to a very specific audience so it could be hard to get paid work from this.

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·     Michelle Monique

      Michelle Monique is a very successful cosplay photographer and she has won a high amount of award for her work. Doing cosplay photography has allowed her to gain popularity in the photography industry and she has gained work from well known brands and designing the front cover of books.

    Camera she uses:
    Canon EOS 40D

    Editing software:
    Photoshop CS3
   The editing process takes her about 10 - 15 hours.


      Editing is a very important feature of cosplay photography because it allows you to make the step from real to fantasy and it gives an exciting edge to the pictures. The purpose of editing is to make the model look like they belongs in the world that the character they are portraying is in.

     Here are some before and after shots of Michelle Monique's work, this shows how much editing is actually put into it.