Anime North pics and a dressform question

[ladyofthethread]

“Please, follow me. I have just the pet for you, right behind this door…”


So, here are the rest of my brother’s photos from Anime North. I love this photo of Count D, taken by the Chinese paneling in the basement. *_* I look appropriately pale for D, the door looks like one you could find in the back of his shop, and I seem to be beckoning some unsuspecting customer off-camera to their doom. The shadowy corner in the upper left adds a touch of creepiness, too.

I did Photoshop out a door in this pic because it was distracting (my brother didn’t want to do it because a friend had borrowed his tablet). It was painted to match the wall but the doorknob (which did not match) was right behind my arm. That’s why there’s a break in the wooden trim running along the base of the wall. ^_^;



There was a padlock on this set of doors which hikaruchan said we should try to hide by standing in front of it. It still showed up in a couple of pictures though so I got rid of it in Photoshop. XD;






It’s weird to see Count D’s claws on Renrin…


We went outside for a few pictures, too. A bit windy but I guess it worked.


Why do I feel like there should be sparkles floating above my right hand?


Nope, the background on this isn’t cg. :-D After we split up, my brother said he wanted to try some photos with the lights on the wall near the hotel ballroom and that was how they came out from a distance.


“Hmm… What’s this?” Most of the kirin probably don’t see much modern technology… *laugh*


Okay, on to Terra pics. I have a mask because it was a prop for my masquerade walk-on. Hikaruchan posted a video of it on youTube if anyone cares to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJpUnoj-k80 My talents are definitely in the sewing department rather than the performing department. ^_^;; The Best of Show Dynasty Warriors group is in that clip, too, as the last entry. Turns out I was actually the fourth to last entry; not sure why I kept thinking I was third to last.



It was a few hours after the masquerade and around 11PM so I think I was just tired and not very smiley by this point. ^_^;



This was the only full length picture my brother got and unfortunately, my left arm blends into the side of my dress, making me look fat. >_< I kind of wish now that I’d done some kind of corset top for this costume because I’ve noticed that the scarves make the dress bunch a bit and look lumpy around the waist. -_-;






And a few pics of an amnesiac Count D. *laugh*



I was sort of thinking of the mirror image pic from the beginning of the chapter with D’s sister but I don’t think this turned out very interesting. ^_^;;





D discovers a new animal? :-D


“Will you help me find my memory?” Silly Tsubasa crossover since Count D had amnesia when he wore this outfit. XD Have to see if I can do something about those stray strands of hair in my face in these last two pics because they make it look like my mascara ran or something.




And a question if anyone here is familiar with adjustable dressforms… I ordered a Singer dressform from JoAnn’s and it was delivered yesterday. I didn’t have any problems getting it assembled but when I was trying to set it to my measurements, there were several times when a dial would go snap and jump back down to a smaller measurement.

So, I’m wondering, is that normal O_o; or do these things just not work well with bigger differences between measurements since my measurements don’t all match up to one standard pattern size? (I was trying to set 38” for the bust and hips and 27.5” for the waist.) We always had the solid, non-adjustable forms when I took classes at Parsons so I’ve never worked with an adjustable one before. If anyone knows a way to avoid the form snapping back to smaller measurements on its own or has other tips for working with these forms, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. ^_^

Comments

[tyrus.livejournal.com]

Nice pics.

And good job in photoshop! I wouldn't have known there was a door there by the wall. You could probably copy the bottom trim piece to a new level, move it and scale it. And then you'd never know.

I really like the focusing on the first Terra pic, and the composition on the second wide balcony pic with the chandelier on the right.

For the mirror image, try a square crop to see if that makes it more interesting. Cut out the table and distracting people to the right. You might even crop in tight and cut a bit of your shoulder. You might want to clone out the little yellow shirted person by your sleeve too :)

I wish there were doorways like that at ANext :(

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestions. :-) I had wondered if I could fill in that break in the wood trim but my Photoshop knowledge is really limited and I figured it might be a bit too complex for me. ^_^; (I usually leave the photo editing to my brother and mostly just do basic things like resizing or brightening on photos off my own camera.) The door turned out to be relatively simple to remove since I only needed to get rid of the outline and the knob; the uneven paint job on the wall probably help hide it, too. Maybe, I can experiment with filling in the trim when I have time. ^_^

Yeah, I wish there were doors like that at cons around here, too. I tend to do a lot of Chinese style designs and never have appropriate settings to use locally for photos. :-(