I keep almost losing the one I’ve already made so I decided making a spare would be prudent; while I was at it, might as well document, right?  Also my site is kinda dead outside of convention times so might as well gap-fill!

So here’s a quick DIY project for a rotating bounce shield for flashguns – it’s a dead simple design and I figure could be adapted for most types – except those that don’t angle up I guess. It looks daft, it stands out, pro camera people will either mock you or acknowledge you with sage nods. Probably the former.

Continue reading DIY flash bounce shield…

So this is a bit of a breakdown of the toy I’ve been playing with the last few weeks. Inspired by cosplay fanvideos around the world I noted the video mode on my Canon 550d and set about doing some research on whether I could do anything similar!

Usual disclaimer, this is all my understanding of things and how they work, I could well be wrong or misguided, feel free to throw in comments if you know better! However for now this is kind of a layman’s view on things, I got a LOT of enquiries about the steadicam while running around with it at KitaCon and I promised I’d do a detailed writeup of how I abused the poor thing.

There’ll be a later post on actually using the thing and considerations for the filming itself, but for now this is the techy side of fixing up a cheapo steadicam.

This rig, of course, is all I used for the first Cosplay Cascade video, so the results are already out there!

Continue reading The NertCam Steadicam…

Part 2!  (Missed part 1? it’s right here)
Continue reading Cosplaying for the Camera (Pt. 2)…

So here’s me uploading the posing panel slides for more open mockery!  Probably less interesting/useful online than the photography panel as you don’t get to see me flailing around as examples but we’ll see what we can do.

Continue reading Cosplaying for the Camera…

Part II, because I just can’t write succinctly.  If you read the original massive post then this is just the latter half of that, because it’s so big it keeps breaking things. NOW I BREAK IT! HA! Continue reading Cosplay Photography – THE SCIENCE SLIDES (Part 2)…

As per request, here’s the sciencey basic slides from my Cosplay Photography panel, hope it comes in as a handy (lengthy..) reference, or at least you get to laugh at how little I UNDERSTAND ANYTHING, or something.

Imagine the entirety of this text read to you very quickly with maniacal hand gestures.

Continue reading Cosplay Photography – THE SCIENCE SLIDES…