it's really awesome cosplay!!! very nice picture too! the color is so beautiful!

whoa
i think this is your best cosplay photo
colors are really great!!!
also her pose!!!
nice one!!!

OHHH. what harmonic dance of the lights and the colors ...very nice

Very amazing costume indeed. And again, a beautiful, dreamy photograph.

I have one suggestion, and that would be to crop out about about 80-100 pixels from the right, so that the figure is not so centered. (I just tried it in Photoshop, and I think it really helps the composition by bringing more attention to the girl's pose. )

Very nice photo, I like how the background is very soft and doesn't compete. I agree with the comment about the cropping though.

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 disenchanted wrote on 01/19 @034
Very amazing costume indeed. And again, a beautiful, dreamy photograph.

I have one suggestion, and that would be to crop out about about 80-100 pixels from the right, so that the figure is not so centered. (I just tried it in Photoshop, and I think it really helps the composition by bringing more attention to the girl's pose. )

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If you crop 80 to 100 pixels from the right, then it's not a photo anymore. It loses the rectangular format of a photograph, and becomes a square.

The harlequin is nice. The background is not doing anything, though.

awesome costume and colours. Im a bit sad the top right of the hat is out of frame....Colours are great. Can I ask a question? When youre at these conventions do you ask the people to pose or are they like just doing these poses? Just wondering cause if you ask and they say yes, you could ask them to move to better backgrounds...{or to the left or right a little}, the railing in this case doesn't go with the subject/era, but of course depends on what you would use the shot for - if for pure documentary sake of the event its fine.

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 arenhaus wrote on 01/19 @398
The harlequin is nice. The background is not doing anything, though.

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why should the background do anything in the first place?

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 velvetgoodnite wrote on 01/19 @657
awesome costume and colours. Im a bit sad the top right of the hat is out of frame....Colours are great. Can I ask a question? When youre at these conventions do you ask the people to pose or are they like just doing these poses? Just wondering cause if you ask and they say yes, you could ask them to move to better backgrounds...{or to the left or right a little}, the railing in this case doesn't go with the subject/era, but of course depends on what you would use the shot for - if for pure documentary sake of the event its fine.

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You have to go up to them and ask for their photos. But you can't really ask them to move to a better background because, usually anime conventions are very crowded, and there are a lot of people taking pictures. For otakon 2003 there were over 17,000 people in the Baltimore Convention Center, and people were moving constantly from one end of the convention center to the other. Besides, sometimes the cosplayers are waiting inline for some event, and you can't really ask them to go to another place and shoot.

1st Why can't a photo be in a shape of a square? Is it written somewhere that photos must be in rectangular shape?!?!?
2nd Background are an important part of photos, inmany cases they help to bring out what we want to show, and in my point of view I think that is nice to see "where" is our subject inserted in, that way we can understand the photo better. In your case, in your photos, they where taken in a convention, so it would be nice, I think to see the contrst between the regular dressed persons and the harle, or see it inserted in a different BG, or see it in a completely distorced BG as you've done before.
3rd I like the photo, the harle has very nice cloros but there«'s too much light comming out of the left corner.

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 Anubis wrote on 01/20 @578
1st Why can't a photo be in a shape of a square? Is it written somewhere that photos must be in rectangular shape?!?!?

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Hello, thank you very much for the comment.

Please show me an example of a famous photographer in the world today, whose photos are square.

hey, I like the photo. It's cool.
However, don't take this the wrong way, but you seem a little defensive. These people aren't trying to be mean or diss you personally. They are just giving suggestions as to how you might improve your photos. I've only looked at one or two of your other things and they're all very pretty and nice but people seem to be saying the same things in some of them and you just yell at them and defend yourself. I don't think it would hurt to play around with it a bit. Maybe you will find that you actually like it better, if let's say, you cropped it.
And as to your last comment...I guess you could say that, although I don't really know that much about photographers, but the goal of being a photographer or any type of artist, I thought, was to get things so that they express what you were trying to express in the best way possible -- not to be like every other photographer/artist out there. It wouldn't hurt to do something a little different with one of your pictures, would it? YOu could even post a link to the full version one.
I'm not trying to be mean but you can flame me if you want. I like your pictures though.

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 ForgottenDreams wrote on 01/21 @287
I'm not trying to be mean but you can flame me if you want. I like your pictures though.

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You can go to http://torontojack.deviantart.com/ to see more of my photos.

Anime, manga and cosplay are more accepted there.

"Please show me an example of a famous photographer in the world today, whose photos are square. "


Photos are rectangular only because that happens to be the shape of film, paper, and sensors in digital cameras. The aspect ratio is not meant to define what an artistic photo is.

So why not re-invent the entire photography industry and start using square films?

A lot of photographers who use large-format cameras end up with square photographs. Try looking at some of Ansel Adam's photographs...you have heard of him, right?