http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:the-xiii-hour/7815424&section= deviantART RSS for gallery:the-xiii-hour/7815424 en-us Copyright 2013, deviantART.com Mon, 20 May 2013 19:35:30 PDT deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://st.deviantart.net/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-I-105510860 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-I-105510860 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:04:04 PST Grand Cosplay Ball I nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-II-105510977 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-II-105510977 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:05:35 PST Grand Cosplay Ball II nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-III-105511113 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-III-105511113 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:07:00 PST Grand Cosplay Ball III nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-V-105511257 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-V-105511257 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:08:47 PST Grand Cosplay Ball V nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-VI-105511305 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-VI-105511305 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:09:22 PST Grand Cosplay Ball VI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-VII-105511373 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-VII-105511373 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:10:04 PST Grand Cosplay Ball VII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-VIII-105511468 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-VIII-105511468 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:11:00 PST Grand Cosplay Ball VIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-IX-105511534 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-IX-105511534 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:11:45 PST Grand Cosplay Ball IX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-X-105511585 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-X-105511585 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:12:26 PST Grand Cosplay Ball X nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour
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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XI-105511659 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XI-105511659 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:13:12 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XII-105511738 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XII-105511738 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:13:56 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


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]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XIII-105511940 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XIII-105511940 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:16:19 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XIV-105512042 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XIV-105512042 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:17:21 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XIV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XV-105512721 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XV-105512721 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:24:38 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XVI-105512999 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XVI-105512999 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:27:53 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XVI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XVII-105513074 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XVII-105513074 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:28:37 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XVII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XVIII-105513168 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XVIII-105513168 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:29:31 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XVIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XIX-105513285 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XIX-105513285 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:46 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XIX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XX-105513391 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XX-105513391 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:31:49 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXI-105513492 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXI-105513492 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:32:46 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXII-105513542 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXII-105513542 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:33:18 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXIII-105514091 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXIII-105514091 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:38:53 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXIV-105514423 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXIV-105514423 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:42:15 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXIV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXV-105514494 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXV-105514494 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:42:53 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXVI-105514617 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXVI-105514617 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:44:11 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXVI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXVII-105514696 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXVII-105514696 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:45:05 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXVII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXVIII-105514750 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXVIII-105514750 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:45:37 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXVIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXIX-105514798 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXIX-105514798 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:46:12 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXIX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXX-105514902 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXX-105514902 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:47:20 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXI-105515613 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXI-105515613 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:55:09 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXII-105515674 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXII-105515674 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:55:45 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXIII-105515794 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXIII-105515794 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:57:05 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXIV-105515923 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXIV-105515923 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:58:31 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXIV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXV-105515990 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXV-105515990 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:59:10 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXVI-105516088 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXVI-105516088 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:25 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXVI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXVII-105516226 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXVII-105516226 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:02:04 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXVII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXVIII-105516465 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXVIII-105516465 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:04:47 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXVIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXIX-105516520 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XXXIX-105516520 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:05:31 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XXXIX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XL-105516634 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XL-105516634 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:06:41 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XL nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLI-105516751 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLI-105516751 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:07:55 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLII-105516842 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLII-105516842 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:09:09 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLIII-105517038 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLIII-105517038 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:11:19 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLIV-105517169 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLIV-105517169 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:12:51 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLIV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLV-105517278 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLV-105517278 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:14:09 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLVI-105517390 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLVI-105517390 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:15:37 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLVI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLVII-105517445 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLVII-105517445 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:16:15 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLVII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLVIII-105517502 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLVIII-105517502 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:16:56 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLVIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLIX-105517553 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-XLIX-105517553 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:17:36 PST Grand Cosplay Ball XLIX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-L-105517605 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-L-105517605 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:18:17 PST Grand Cosplay Ball L nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LI-105517745 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LI-105517745 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:19:58 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LII-105517796 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LII-105517796 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:20:33 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LIII-105517907 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LIII-105517907 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:21:59 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LIV-105517966 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LIV-105517966 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:22:33 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LIV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LV-105518169 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LV-105518169 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:25:09 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LV nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LVI-105518223 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LVI-105518223 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:25:51 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LVI nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LVII-105518281 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LVII-105518281 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:26:38 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LVII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LVIII-105518343 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LVIII-105518343 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:27:28 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LVIII nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LIX-105518401 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LIX-105518401 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:28:17 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LIX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

]]> http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LX-105518476 http://the-xiii-hour.deviantart.com/art/Grand-Cosplay-Ball-LX-105518476 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:29:09 PST Grand Cosplay Ball LX nonadult photography/people/cosplay the-xiii-hour http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/h/the-xiii-hour.jpg?2 Copyright 2008-2013 *the-xiii-hour Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour ]]> Location: The Clapham Grand
Camera Used: Canon 350d
Lens Used: Canon 18-55mm {the one that came with the camera... ::coughs::}
ISO Speed: 1600
Editing: None except for contrast

Notes on the Shoot: Took over 500 photographs, of which 103 of them truly sucked, the rest I had to troll through and decide which to post here, because let's face it, if I uploaded over 300 photographs to DeviantArt I think those subscribed to me would murder me XD But for those of you that DO want to see all 387 of them, just click on the link below to go to my Flickr page

I decided to shoot the evening 'documentary' style, so rather than going up to people and asking for posed photographs I just clicked away, I didn't really go to this event JUST to go, the main reason I went was for my photography project that I am doing on cosplay and this seemed like the perfect event for just that. I wanted to show just how much fun people have when coming together in cosplay and kinda demolish all stereotypes or assumptions about cosplayers that some un-knowledgeable or biased people make. The point of the project is to show something as a community through the idea that 'seeing is believing', just because you see, doesn't mean everything you see is what you can believe or what is assume is actually what is true, I wanted to show that about the cosplay community and I must say... I don't think I did too badly XD

I could have photographed better {had I been better prepared, as it was I had no external flash, I had to use the one attached to my camera and did I have to use the lens that came with my camera XD so poor lighting and no that much zoom ¬.¬;;} and more bravely if I only I had consumed many, many cocktails beforehand but being the sober person that I was I didn't have the balls to take more daring photographs XD

And for the most part of the evening I decided to shoot in black and white, why? Because I'm not often very fond of colour, completely depends on the subject matter and for me, the colour just wasn't producing the look I was going for, but turning to black and white I finally began producing photographs that appealed to me. I wanted to focus on the community feel, I wanted the photographs to look chique, almost like a 1920's - 1950's shindig and I think I accomplished that, which still pleases me greatly XD

Comments: The Grand International Cosplay Ball in the Clapham Grand was fantastic, it truly can only be summed up in one word. EPIC. While I myself didn't do any dancing {for I was photographing everyone else the entire way} I still had a great time and I could tell everyone else was too Kudos to the women who put this all together! For the first ever 'Grand International Cosplay Ball' it truly was without flaw, sure it could have been held on a Saturday, but getting such a venue on such a busy day isn't always possible and while I had to leave at 11:40pm to catch my train home I still came out with a huge smile on my face, it was defo worth the money. The guest line up was great, especially CanaDark, the fire and poi performer, now his is a performance I won't be forgetting soon XD


See more from the shoot here - [link]


© the-xiii-hour

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