ー：：ヲタクおくの：：ー: A Big Round-up!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

A Big Round-up!

Here's a big round-up of the Cosplay events I went to this year!

[13/6/2009] - Streetfest 2009

Location: *SCAPE Youth Park
This was my 2nd time at a cosplay event and I spent most of my time there snapping photographs away with my friend's SONY 10MP digital camera. I forgot to bring my digital camera which is much better. XO

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[27/6/2009] - Mascot Parade 2009 (SHINE Youth Festival 2009)

Location: Infront of Ngee Ann City (Orchard)
This time I brought my NIKON Coolpix L3 also, spent most of my time snapping away. Plus, this time I managed to get to know one of the cosplayers and got her contacts. I was so happy then, when she gave me her email. =D

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[11-12/7/2009] - Cosfest 2009

Location: Downtown East (Pasir Ris)
This is the first time in any type of event that I was so busy snapping photographs away till I have over 400+ photos to process at home (after deleting bad shots left with 300+). This is also the first cosplay event that I met up with a cosplayer that I liked before going to the event. xp Even though I live only a few stops away from Pasir Ris, I went all the way to City Hall to meet up with her, then make our way to Pasir Ris!! LOLZ!!
On Day 1 of the event, I mainly took photos and helped out that cosplayer and on Day 2 (she did not go for the Day 2) I then started busy snapping away on the other cosplayers. Similarly, I used my NIKON Coolpix L3. (I love the colour this digital camera give although it is only 5MP.)

More Photos in SGCafe and Facebook(1), (2)

[15-16/8/2009] - Singapore Toy, Games and Comics Convention (STGCC; Coscon; Toycon)

Location: Suntec City Convention Hall 401 - 402
This time I tried costuming while also, busy snapping away with my NIKON Coolpix L3 digital camera. I wore a blue yukata and a geta, which I initially bought for an festival at Changi Japanese School called Natsumatsuri (Summer Festival) which is at a later date. Similarly to Cosfest, I had again 400+ photos to process (left 300+ after deletion of some).

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[20/9/2009] - Games Convention Asia 2009

Location: Suntec City Convention Hall 401
This was the first event where I used a SLR camera, a professional film camera, for a cosplay event. I used the CANON EOS 888 and only prepared 2 rolls of film, bought 1 roll at Suntec and still find them not enough. There are just too many amazing cosplays around!! 8D
I only bought a Fate/Stay Night Weis Schwarz Trial Deck from Kurocha! in this event. =D

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[21-22/11/2009] - Anime Festival Asia 2009

Location: Suntec City Convention Hall 403 - 404

This was the first event where I cosplayed while taking photographs, and thus I was called cos-grapher (cosplayer-photographer). I cosplayed as Kaname Kuran from Vampire Knight and this time, I prepared a external flash and 10 rolls of film (used 9 and a half of it)! However, due to inexperience with the flash I'm using as it's the first time I'm using it at that event, most of the photographs turned out underexposed and the store I sent to for development had to increase the ISO of it's film scanner, thus producing photos that are quite noisy. Filtering through the photos and editing those filtered out, only a few (less than a hundred) out of the 300+ photos I took are just passable. As a result, I conclude a wastage in film and developed photos of total around $150+ due to my inexperience with the external flash. On the other hand, I don't find it a total waste in general as I have learned a lot and picked up a lot of experience a long the way, through this failure and through experts. Luckily, my shots of the figures (figma, nendoroids...) are better than what I expected.
AFA09 have been a very fun event and I made a lot of friends. Most importantly, I learned a lot from this event.

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[26/12/2009] - EOY 2009 (End Of Year; Event Of the Year)

Location: National Library Level 3, Drama Centre (Bugis)
This time round due to lack of funds to buy film, I decided to just cosplay and walk around the event. I brought a long my NIKON Coolpix L3 and only took a few photographs. Met with a lot of friends and also made a lot of friends in this event. =D