Purple Penguin Productions, LLC » Twin Bees Modeling http://purplepenguinllc.com Photography by Kathy Chee Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:37:52 +0000 en hourly 1 Otakon 2010 http://purplepenguinllc.com/2010/08/otakon-2010/ http://purplepenguinllc.com/2010/08/otakon-2010/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:58:34 +0000 Purplepenguin http://purplepenguinllc.com/?p=162 Every year Baltimore gets to host a little event called Otakon.  Just imagine thousands of nerdy children, their parents, random hipsters and the occasional sane human converging at the giant glass walled  Baltimore convention center dressed in every imaginable costume from Japanese animation, popular science fiction, fantasy and video games.  It’s an insane amount of color, noise and BO.

This year featured quite a bit of Japanese fashion with the Ultimate Lolita Fashion Show and the h.Naoto Runway Show & Panel.  The Lolita Show features work from local designers in North America.  I was asked to walk for Morrigan NYC.  I’m not a runway model, but luckily I can walk straight and keep my posture.  I didn’t faceplant into the floor and that’s good.

I think these types of conventions are great venues for budding photographers to work with natural light and also work on posing people.  There’s tons of folks walking around just waiting to get their picture taken.  As long as you’re polite, they’ll be polite and you may come out with some interesting stuff.  Even if you’re a sniper-photog with a long telephoto, the stuff that happens at these conventions won’t be replicated elsewhere and putting the photos together could make for a great story.

I had meant to take photos documenting what I did each day at the convention, but opted not to after a hectic press schedule.  I did catch one of the Twin Bee’s, a bit of the h.Naoto show, a Jasmine You (visual kei band Versailles) cosplayer and some other random cosplay stuff.

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]]> http://purplepenguinllc.com/2010/08/otakon-2010/feed/ 0 Twin Bees and Skull Caps http://purplepenguinllc.com/2010/06/twin-bees-and-skull-caps/ http://purplepenguinllc.com/2010/06/twin-bees-and-skull-caps/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:28:52 +0000 Purplepenguin http://purplepenguinllc.com/?p=157 Today I hopped on the parkway up North a bit to see the Twin Bees for some stock photos I needed to do.  And we did the stock stuff.  We shot them real fast and quickly moved on to more fun things like little dead animals made into hats.   This was a very easy setup, super dramatic.  Most of the work is how you pose your models, because the light is so harsh and flows all in one direction.  Finding the right angles to show off those shadows can be tricky.  When it works, it’s pretty faboosh.

You can see more of the Twin Bees at their portfolio site on Facebook.

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